Category Archives: Surveying
Field Report From Concordia: Inside Topcon’s PNT Field of Dreams
A first-person visit to Topcon’s Concordia Training Center near Modena, Italy, reveals a purpose-built center of excellence where place, precision and trust come together. Near Modena, in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, it is impossible to separate technology from place. This is Italy’s high-performance automotive heartland, home to Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bugatti and Pagani — some...
Inventing the Workflow: How Phoenix LiDAR Helped Build the Market It Now Serves
When Grayson Omans, founder and CEO of Phoenix LiDAR Systems, described the company’s transition into its next chapter following the Revolution Geosystems acquisition, he did not sound like a man delivering a polished exit line. He sounded like someone who had spent years living inside the pressure of building a company and was finally ready to...
Worlds Colliding: Sensor Fusion, Platform Modularity, and the New Architecture of Geospatial Data Collection
At Geo Week 2026 in Denver, one of the industry’s most experienced voices in multi-sensor positioning argues that the real transformation isn’t in any single instrument — it’s in how the instruments learn to work together. Mohamed Mostafa has been thinking about sensor fusion longer than most people in the geospatial industry have been using...
Since Precision Exists: How Topcon Is Reframing Construction Through Geospatial Intelligence
At ConExpo, some booths display products. Others project momentum. Topcon did both. From the aisle, the scene was hard to miss. The booth was busy almost constantly, each kiosk crowded with a rotating mix of current customers, future customers, partners, dealers, and industry observers and media. Demonstrations ran continuously. Conversations layered over one another. Specialists...
Between the Scanner and the Deliverable: How Mach9 is Building the Missing Layer in Geospatial Production
A Carnegie Mellon-trained roboticist who learned surveying in a coal mine and mapped uranium deposits inside decommissioning pipes is now building what he calls a new category of software — one that sits at the intersection of CAD, GIS, and the physical world. Alex Baikovitz did not set out to build CAD software. He set...
Cleaner Signals, Better Sites
How Antenna-Level Interference Mitigation Improves Machine Control Productivity. Construction job sites have always been challenging environments for positioning. Steel structures, heavy machinery, changing terrain, and partial sky visibility are part of the daily reality. What has changed dramatically over the past decade is the radio-frequency (RF) environment in which modern construction now operates. Today’s job...