Category Archives: GNSS/Location Tech
Topcon and GreenValley International Collaborate on Spatial Intelligence Innovations
Topcon Positioning Systems announced it has entered a strategic agreement with GreenValley International (GVI) to collaborate on technologies for surveying, mapping, construction, forestry and other spatial intelligence related applications. Planned innovations will include integrated hardware and software solutions for handheld, aerial, and mobile LiDAR data collection and processing workflows, with developments extending into robotic systems,...
The Chain That Counts
Four specialists on what actually separates a drone data product from a deliverable a surveyor will stamp The unmanned systems industry has spent a decade getting very good at one thing: flying. The airframes are capable, the sensors are capable, and the regulatory framework, while still evolving, is no longer the primary bottleneck it was...
Teledyne FLIR IIS: The Camera Inside the Stack
When Mike Lee, director of product management for the company’s spherical imaging business, sat down with xyHt at Geo Week 2026, he was not pitching a new workflow platform or a digital twin ecosystem. He was describing a company whose job is to provide a visual sensing layer that other companies’ systems depend on —...
The Image as Evidence
Time-stamped, location-aware imagery has quietly crossed a threshold from documentation to trusted record. The geospatial profession is now in the business of producing evidence — and the standards have not caught up to the stakes. A surveyor flying a bridge deck, a GIS technician cataloging post-storm damage, a mapping firm delivering obliques to an insurer:...
xyHt Magazine January/February 2026
Read the Jan/Feb xyHt digital edition. Table of Contents Brave New Coordinates: Working in the Modernized NSRS – Practical guidance for using NATRF2022, NAPGD2022 and SPC2022 to keep everyday projects aligned with the new U.S. reference frames. Fresno State: Building the Next Generation – How Fresno State’s geomatics program is training students on GNSS,...
Topcon 2.0 in Practice
How Connected Workflows Are Redefining Geospatial and Construction Execution Over the past decade, geomatics has shifted from a discipline defined primarily by measurement accuracy to one increasingly shaped by workflow execution. Sensors are more capable, data volumes larger, and project timelines tighter, while survey, GIS, and construction activities now routinely overlap. In this environment, the...