During the Land Surveyors-day in Budapest, Hungary, Managing Director, Jan van der Weijden of Sokkia Europe and Zoltan Varga of Sokkia KFT handed out a free Robotic Total Station, Sokkia's...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has introduced the newest addition to Topcon's robotic total station series - the Topcon Imaging Station - which offers the added productivity and versatility of...

This month I am focusing on guidance of heavy earthwork machines, including dozers, motor graders, pavers, tractors and excavators. The rationale behind this is to pinpoint our very first product...

Trimble used Intergeo to introduce further enhancements to its complete surveying portfolio as part of its Connected Site solutions: new models of the Trimble S8 Total Station with options for...

Limitations in sampling rate and the detection of outliers impede use of the Robotic Total Station (RTS) for highly dynamic applications. The need to meet such requirements motivated the author...

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's arctic landing site is not providing enough...

Intergeo, the world’s largest congress and trade-fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management, will this year be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 22nd to 24th September. About 16,000 visitors are...

  Servomotors move the total-station telescope horizontally and vertically to detect the prism. When detected, the system “zooms in”, aims, and locks onto the reflector of high accuracy. A Robotic...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has released TopSURV 7; redesigned and upgraded from its all-new, efficient database engine to its near-universal exporting abilities. On the inside the new database engine...

3D Laser Mapping (UK) is helping pioneer research into intelligent field mapping robots. The firm's laser scanning technology can create highly detailed 3D visualisations of the surroundings so that robots...