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Topcon updates GLS-2000 scanner for interior vertical construction
Topcon officially updates firmware for its GLS-2000 scanner with a setting for capturing detail of interior vertical construction. Details on Equipment World.
November 23, 2018
Technology
Trimble deal with Propeller Aero brings drone-based site survey system to U.S. contractors, engineers
Trimble has announced it is collaborating with Australia’s Propeller Aero to distribute that company’s drone-based site survey and analytics technology. We got our first glimpse of Propeller Aero’s system in March at the Trimble booth during ConExpo. The system uses drones, also known as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), to survey a jobsite from the air. The […]
July 20, 2017
Roadbuilding
Illinois DOT invests in drones to help with assortment of jobs
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) paid approximately $9,000 for a pair of new drones that it plans to use for an assortment of jobs, the Illinois News Network reports. “It could do (tasks) ranging from surveying work, maybe getting into some 3D imaging, to maybe looking at highway work zones,” IDOT spokesman Brian Williamsen told […]
December 20, 2016
Business
The Robin, a wearable surveying system, maps sites unreachable by conventional equipment
The company 3D Laser Mapping has launched a new multi-platform mapping system called Robin, which can scan and map terrain when worn by the operator while walking, or when attached to a moving vehicle, drone or helicopter. Unlike most other mapping systems, Robin can capture date from paths, forest trails and coastlines that are only accessible on […]
August 11, 2016
Technology
Leica’s unmanned Pegasus Multiscope rover maps infrastructure in dangerous terrain
Leica Geosystems has partnered with a company called Milrem to launch the Pegasus Multiscope Unmanned Ground Vehicle—a mini-machine that can take GPS mapping and camera technology into places where you wouldn’t risk the lives or safety of your crew. Designed to perform GPS mapping chores on dangerous terrain the Pegasus Multiscope can work around minefields, […]
June 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
Topcon launches SmoothRide system for mapping road surfaces at highway speeds
Topcon has launched a vehicle-mounted system for mapping road surfaces for road construction work that allows scanning at highway speeds. The information collected can be used to enhance work for pavers or milling machines for machine control using GNSS with sonic tracer sensor guidance, the company says. Because the SmoothRide system can scan at high […]
March 29, 2016
Roadbuilding
Caltrans demos its souped-up $1 million surveying SUV
The California Department of Transportation has released a new video in its News Flash series, and in it, you can watch as a Caltrans worker uses the department’s “revolutionary” surveying vehicle. “Some call it a Google car on steroids, at Caltrans we call it Mobile Terrestrial Laser Scanner,” spokesman Gilbert Mohtes-Chan said. Caltrans said in a press release […]
March 23, 2016
Technology
More than 250 companies (and counting) have received FAA drone exemptions for construction and surveying
As late as last month, the full number of just how many companies had been granted permission to operate drones for commercial purposes by the Federal Aviation Administration was an unknown. The only way to really know when a company had been granted an exemption from the agency’s current rules, which bar any use of […]
July 16, 2015
Technology
Topcon granted drone exemption by FAA
Topcon has received an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration, excluding the company from the agency’s current unmanned aerial systems (UAS) guidelines that until now have prohibited it from commercial operation of its Sirius mapping drones in the U.S. The company says the exemption covers both the Sirius Pro and Sirius Basic drones for the use of aerial […]
April 28, 2015
Construction Equipment
How to fly a drone for surveying: Expert advice from an Icelandic firm who does it in a dark, windy climate
While drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have generated quite a bit of interest in the construction industry, most professionals who see the value of the technology are treading softly due to a lack of federal regulation over such aircraft and the Federal Aviation Administration’s running ban on commercial flights until such regulations can be put […]
November 13, 2014
Technology
Remote control surveying
Gatewing President Maarten Vandenbroucke delievered an interesting session at Trimble Dimensions 2012 Tuesday morning on the fast and high-quality survey imaging UAVs can provide.
November 8, 2012
Technology
Technology
Drive By Surveying Rovers are great, but with Topcon’s IP-S2 you can now map out a site at 60 mph and never even step out of the truck. By Tom Jackson In the past 10 years the advent of pole-mounted GPS rover receivers have been a boon for contractors. You can record survey points on […]
November 3, 2011
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