GNSS
Your International Geospatial Briefing for August 31st: Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2; Everest survey succeeds; Underwater heat blob growing in the Arctic; China Launches Beidou; Amazonian Tribe Applies Location Intelligence
Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2 Contract from Civil Engineering Contractor EKFB Trimble and Totalmobile have developed the first cloud-based vehicle…
Elexicon Energy and Quantum Spatial Canada Pilot Comprehensive Mobile Mapping Project
Elexicon Energy (Elexicon) was formed in April 2019 by the merger of Veridian Connections and Whitby Hydro Electric Corporation. Owned…
EUROPEAN GNSS AGENCY (GSA) AND WORLD GEOSPATIAL INDUSTRY COUNCIL (WGIC) SIGN A STRATEGIC COLLABORATION MEMORANDUM
STUTTGART – GERMANY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 The World Geospatial Industry Council [WGIC] and The European Global Navigation Satellite System Agency – (European GNSS Agency –…
Take the Canadian Geomatics Survey: Pan-Canadian Positioning, Navigation & Timing (PNT) Strategy
Canadian Geodetic Survey The Canadian Geodetic Survey (CGS) is developing a plan to expand its Positioning infrastructure and services. The…
UAV Surveys – How to Ensure Accuracy and Precision
For the past four years, I’ve been involved with the capture and delivery of data derived from drones. My experience…
The 5 most interesting things that happened in geomatics in 2016
Let’s take a step back and have a look at what happened this year. To be honest, it was pretty…
Canadian Surveyors “Remark” on History with Elk Pass Boundary Restoration Survey
The Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission has just completed a monument restoration survey to restore a number of deteriorated provincial boundary…
LiDAR in Canada: Conversation with Dr. Chris Hopkinson Research Chair Remote Sensing University of Lethbridge
The author Bob Maher (BM) and Chris Hopkinson (CH) both worked as scientists at the Appied Geomatics Reearch Group (AGRG)…
Thinking About Geomatics: How to Find the Right Device for Data Collection
Finding the right device for data collection I was at CNAM recently and a number of discussions reminded me of…
SNRC: UAV Integration Highly Valued in Canadian Marketplace
Due to a foreseeable increase in the demand for UAV acquired aerial imagery in resource management, various firms are already…
Low-cost Feature-Rich RTK Receiver
SkyTraq Technology, a Taiwanese GNSS positioning technology company, introduces S2525F8-RTK, a low-cost, low-power, single frequency RTK receiver for applications requiring…
Latest model of Optech Lynx and results from Highways England at TRB 95th Annual Meeting
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will introduce the latest model of its Lynx mobile lidar system, the…
