Category Archives: GNSS/Location Tech
Workflow Innovations at Trimble Dimensions 2025
How a user-driven rethink of field–office connectivity, training, and cross-industry collaboration is changing the way surveyors, geospatial teams, and builders deliver work—on time, on spec, and at scale. Trimble Dimensions has never been a passive showcase. It has always been an event where surveyors, contractors, geospatial professionals, and engineers collide with technology and leave with...
Topcon 2.0: Reclaiming the Geomatics Frontier
For decades, Topcon has been a trusted name in precision optics, GNSS receivers, and machine control. Its equipment became a familiar sight on survey crews, construction sites, and agricultural fields across the globe. Over the past decade, the company leaned heavily into high-growth sectors such as machine control and precision agriculture, expanding its presence in...
The Essential Instrument Gets Smarter
Just when you thought there was nothing new in the world of Total Stations… Appearances can be deceptive. If you’re thinking that this is just another total station, you might be pleasantly surprised by the following look under the hood. But why a new total station? Didn’t the technology of such instruments peak in the...
Fixposition’s Vision-RTK Pro + Esri Is a Game Changer
The streets of modern cities are lined with glass and steel, forests close their canopy around remote infrastructure projects, and construction zones sprawl across bridges, tunnels, and high-rise footprints. These are not exceptions but the everyday environments in which surveyors and mapping professionals work. Yet in these very settings, the bedrock of their craft—centimeter-level GNSS...
GIS Needs Geodesy
Why Accuracy Matters Now More Than Ever When I entered university to study geodesy in 1976, graduating students had begun their studies with slide rules and thick algorithm books. Pocket calculators were nonexistent, and electronic distance measurement (EDM) devices were heavy, delicate, and cumbersome. No satellite positioning systems were yet available. At that time, the...
How Lidar Is Helping Cattle Farmers Make Smarter Land Use Decisions
In the rolling hills and rugged terrain of Spain, a quiet revolution is underway, one that’s helping cattle farmers make better decisions about how they use their land. At the heart of it is lidar, a remote sensing technology that’s proving to be more than just a tool for mapping landscapes. It’s becoming a critical...