Category Archives: Lidar/Imaging
Angélica Ortiz Arteaga
BIM Director, IUYET Consortium Mexico A particularly impressive presentation at HxGN 2017 was by the IUYET Consortium about their work on the new airport rail project in Mexico City. The contributions of IUYET in the use of advanced surveying, scanning, mobile mapping, UAS, GNSS, and construction monitoring are splendid examples of the 21st century digital...
Sergey Krasovski
Product Manager, Trimble Colorado, USA Alums of the geomatics engineering program of the University of Calgary and the rotational development program of Trimble, Inc. appear in our nominations frequently. Sergey Krasovski is in his third year in this new recruit program at Trimble, which he began with a stint in their Munich offices working in...
Watching the 4th Dimension
Tech tools for capturing change over time are changing… over time. Editor’s note: “The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once” is the title of a poem by X. J. Kennedy. But what if we want to know—all at once—everything that has happened at a particular location over time, for engineering...
Hans Martin Zogg
Business Director for TPS, Leica Geosystems Switzerland Even though he’s “not a splashy guy” according to his nominator, Hans Martin Zogg has achieved a responsible, key position within the Leica Geosystems geomatics business in a short time. Most notably, he has been the product manager for the MultiStation product line, which combines a total station...
Virtualization: the Greatest Tool You Don’t (Currently) Use
This post is dedicated to a good friend, Chris Johnson, who, when we worked together a few years back, introduced me to this cool new word: VIRTUALIZATION. You see, Chris is an IT guru (see: enterprise systems architect)—a friend that every GIS guru should have so that you’ve got someone to pick up the pieces...
The Value of 360º Digital Panoramic Images
The GeoDude tells us that rich, new deliverables are changing client expectations for the better. One of the biggest impacts that 3D laser scanning has had on the market is a set of new client deliverables that it has spawned. One deliverable in particular (360° panoramic digital images) has profoundly raised the bar of client expectations, yet...
