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Accuracy with a Phone?
September 27, 2019

Photogrammetry is now possible using consumer devices, and the applications are vast. Continuing improvement in digital...


High Precision GPS to Help Automated Bulk Volume Estimation ? Here’s why…
March 5, 2019

The Challenge For the past 150 years, feedlot monitoring has been the responsibility of a select few employees, who visually...


How GNSS Receivers Empower Smart Cities
March 5, 2019

By 2050, more than 60 percent of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas. Cities are facing this rapid...


Predicting Crumbling Cliffs
March 5, 2019

Cliff Erosion: a Global Issue In 2012, nine homes in Happisburgh, an historic village on England’s Norfolk coast,...


The iCon build: Adding Adaptable Options for Layout Automation
June 29, 2017

At CONEXPO 2017, we were given a demonstration of one tool in the new wave of automated layout solutions for vertical...


3D Software, Not Really Like CAD at All
December 1, 2016

Editor’s note: For many firms and practitioners of surveying, photogrammetry, mapping, and remote sensing, traditional...


A Lidar That Oversamples: Geiger Lidar Imaging
October 10, 2016

Typical linear lidar systems repeatedly fire a single beam, each time measuring a single location on the ground. They collect...


Robots of the Deep
October 10, 2016

We have mapped the surface of the Moon at a resolution of 328 feet. We have mapped the surface of Mars. Yet, here on Earth,...


Moving Dirt Just Right
August 30, 2016

GNSS receivers help steer earth movers, providing users with accurate positions and no complexities. NavCom–a wholly owned...


Space Engineer In Training
June 2, 2016

Last summer, NASA dropped three small airplanes from 100 feet in tests meant to simulate severe but survivable crashes. It collected...