At GeoBusiness 2017 in London, Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis, argued passionately for improving the efficency of the construction industry, which is 8% of the UK’s GDP. Digitalization, in which BIM + geospatial play a key […]
At HxGNLive Juergen Dold, President of Hexagon Geosystems which is responsible for the Leica Geosystems brand, gave a talk about perception and reality. Perception is how we see the world, but perceptions are subjective and […]
I have already blogged about the Leica BLK360 whose size, capabilities, one button operation and price point promise to revolutionize professional scanning for construction. Anyone who has used a Leica scanner is familiar with Cyclone […]
At HxGNLive in Las Vegas this week I attended a session on using Leica technology to locate underground assets presented by Brett Black, GIS Solutions, Simon Pedley, Utility Detection Solutions and Mike Baker, G/Technology Product […]
At HxGNLive in Las Vegas this week a very interesting presentation with practical implications for anyone involved in construction, whether buildings or horizontal infrastructure was provided by Stanley Lawrence, Reid Flamm, and Michael Moore of […]
The construction industry in the UK, as in many of the world’s advanced economies, suffers from low productivity compared to other industries, a situation which hasn’t improved in 25 years according to Simon Rawlinson of […]
The Leica BLK360 has won a CES 2017 Innovation Award. The BLK360 is a miniaturized 3D imaging laser scanner that weighs about a kilogram. It captures full-color panoramic images overlaid on a millimeter accuracy point […]
Today’s 3D scanners are able to generate 3D models in which humans can easily recognize objects such as vegetation, ground, buildings, power transformers, utility poles and cables, and windows and doors. Automating this process of […]