GPS / GNSS

Global positioning systems (GPS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are transforming high-precision surveying.

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Trimble R12 Receiver with ProPoint GNSS Technology

May 13, 2020

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The Trimble R12 GNSS system is a high-performance solution for professional land surveyors that enables customers to collect data more accurately in challenging GNSS environments.

MOBILE SCANNING

Mobile Mapping Collects Geospatial Data From A Safe Distance

Mary Jo Wagner

April 30, 2020

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Trimble’s MX9 3D system performs a broad range of mobile mapping applications such as road surveys, topographic mapping, 3D modeling and asset management, using a vehicle-mounted mobile LiDAR system, multi-camera imaging, and field software.

Company Spotlight: JAVAD GNSS, Inc.

April 21, 2020

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Since its inception, JAVAD GNSS has been intensely focused on developing and manufacturing the most advanced GNSS receivers, OEM boards, GNSS antennas, wireless radio systems and accessories in support of our customer’s position, navigation and timing requirements from the surface of the Earth to the International Space Station and beyond.

AUGMENTED REALITY

Trimble’s SiteVision creates a low-cost, augmented reality field solution

Augmented reality has moved past the phase of tantalizing possibility and into real-world applications.

Jodie Hartnell

April 14, 2020

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A Norwegian design firm has put Trimbles 3D Augmented Reality field solution into practice and has seen immediate benefits.

CEU: The 2022 IGS Datum Modernization of the NSRS

Modernization of the International GPS Service Datum will impact the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) and support the goal of eliminating NAVD 88 and NAD 83.

Alexis Brumm

April 1, 2020

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This course will look at the National Geodetic Survey's decade-long effort to prepare and modernize the National Spatial Reference System and its user community.

2020 Equipment Report Reveals Newer Tech Taking Hold for Surveyors

Surveying & Mapping Professionals are Adopting More Tech and Newer Tech

Perry Trunick

March 2, 2020

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Spending is increasing and lasers are among tools being added.

San Francisco Precision Survey Completed

Angus Stocking LS

March 2, 2020

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When Bruce Storrs first accepted his job as San Francisco City and County Surveyor 14 years ago, he was well aware of the challenges.

POB Surveying & Mapping Equipment Study preview

Special Report Preview: 2020 Surveying & Mapping Industry Equipment

Feature article will publish in the March 2020 issue of POB

February 10, 2020

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Categories studied include total stations, data collector/controllers, geodetic survey-grade carrier-phase GPS receivers, mapping-grade code-phase receivers, 3D laser scanners, UAVs, and wireless cloud computing.

Reviving the Importance of Maps

Perry Trunick

February 3, 2020

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Our reliance and confidence in following the turn-by-turn directions of satellite navigation appears to be extinguishing our sense of location.

Survey In Extreme Isolation Successfully Maps Bird Preserve

John Stenmark LS

February 3, 2020

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John Houston is not a surveyor. He’s not a heavy traveler, either. So what was he doing on a speck of an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, knee deep in brush and muck operating a high-accuracy GNSS receiver?

2020 May

In the May 2020 issue of POB, find out how mobile spatial imaging technology helped an international construction company to redefine the business of road and railway projects, discover new applications for mobile mapping and steadily drive them toward new opportunities.

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