If BIM is applied to the industry effectively, it could allow the built environment sector to accomplish the same productivity gains as the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing industries. According to...

OxTS, experts in inertial navigation has introduced a series of updates to the xNAV and xOEM range of products. The result is greater practicality and improved functionality from OxTS’ survey-friendly...

Precision agriculture has considerably benefited from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, often combined with active ranging sensors like Lidar to gather information from underneath the crops, but existing systems...

There is a continual conversation across the Lidar community about accuracy, what it means, how important it really is and how to quantify it. Typically, an important objective in any...

Have you ever found yourself struggling to tell other people what your profession as a GIS specialist or surveyor actually entails? If so, you’ll no doubt be interested to hear...

The Optech CL-90 is the first in a new family of compact Lidar (CL) products designed specifically for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or ‘drone’) market drawing on Teledyne Optech’s...

Maptek has released a cold climate model of its award-winning mobile Sentry system for stability monitoring. The system allows for continuous, reliable measurements of ground movement, irrespective of the environment....

Applanix’s POSPac MMS GNSS Inertial software, in particular the Applanix SmartBase (ASB) post-processed virtual reference station technique, has been widely adopted as a robust and reliable method of direct georeferencing...

Wetlands are essential ecosystems which provide numerous benefits to society as a whole. But their functionality strongly depends on the hydrology and topography of the watershed, thus creating the need...

SBG Systems has released the FOG-based Horizon inertial measurement unit (IMU), designed for high demanding surveying applications such as high-altitude data collection, or mobile mapping in very dense areas such...