geo-FENNEL – An constant entity in measuring technology and surveying If it doesn't fit, it'll be made to fit – far from it! With the precise and high-quality point and...

A unique view of the Washington Monument from the National Park Service. Using new international measurement standards and technology not available in the past, NOAA's National Geodetic Survey has calculated...

Topcon Positioning Group announces that it has upgraded its entire line of pipe lasers. The new TP-L5 series includes five models, providing the widest selection available to meet both performance...

UAVs as platforms or systems were very much to the fore at this year’s INTERGEO. But so was software, reports editor Stephen Booth. In one of the six exhibition halls...

Crossrail, London’s GBP15 billion railway line, is Europe’s largest infrastructure project. A new station, under construction at Paddington, will be a key hub in the east-west route linking Heathrow in...

A mobile mapping system (MMS) enables laser data and images of a road and its vicinity to be collected from a van or other moving platform. Here, the author describes...

Whether based on Lidar, photogrammetry, radar, sonar or other remote sensors, systems for geodata acquisition create millions or even billions of 3D points. To be useful, the data needs to...

Promoted by China’s Ministry of Education, the ‘KOLIDA Cup’ National Surveying Skill Competition is the most influential national, vocational student-skills competition in the Chinese surveying industry. The competition aims to...

Leica Geosystems has introduced the new Leica Rugby 600 Series of rotating lasers. All five models of the Rugby 600 Series offer a professional solution allowing quick levelling and aligning...

A gold mine in China’s Shandong Province is the country’s first underground mine to use 3D laser scanning. During a one-year project, 20km of major tunnels were scanned and the...