Tag Archives: geoSLAM
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/03/2023
Bentley Systems Announces Retirement of Founder Keith Bentley First Autonomous Agricultural Drones Launched in Thailand Improved Location Accuracy Enables Hydraulic Modeling Drones in Vineyards Make Wine Growing Safer and Easier 17th Utility Investigation School Offered in May GeoComm Receives Patent for Translating Raw Geodetic Locations into Dispatchable Locations CGA Announces Industry Challenge to Cut Damages...
FARO Buys GeoSLAM
FARO® Technologies, Inc. has bought mobile scanning company GeoSLAM in a effort to expand and accelerate FARO’s market grown opportunity in the mobile scanning space. Founded in 2012, GeoSLAM has grown into a leading provider of mobile scanning solutions with proprietary high-productivity simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) software to create 3D models for use in...
Seen at Intergeo
xyHt staff were out in force at the world’s largest geospatial conference in Frankfurt in October, and here’s what we saw of special interest. Riegl’s Big 4-0 Riegl celebrated its 40th anniversary at Intergeo. Pictured here are Jim Van Rens and Dr. Riegl, the company’s founder. New Vector Extraction in 3D Extraction of useful information...
A Student SLAMs Stuttgart
As part of a bachelor’s thesis project, a university student successfully scanned more than 21,000 sq ft of complex office space in just 40 minutes with a mobile 3D laser scanner (the GeoSLAM ZEB-REVO), despite having never previously used the device. The point cloud created from the first-time scanning work was sufficient to generate an...
Slam an Entire Building
A Danish surveyor measured the floor area of 13-story building in 1.5 hours with a mobile 3D scanner. Accurately calculating the floor space area in a new building (either residential or office) has serious legal implications in Denmark, and this service has become important business for surveying companies there. One of these firms, LIFA Surveyors,...
Weekly xyHt News Links: 02/23/2018
Topcon Acquires ClearedGE3D, a Technology Leader in 3D Modeling and Construction Verification Software GeoSLAM to Demo Time & Cost Saving 3D Mobile Laser Scanners for Construction Applications at 2018 AGC Convention
