Eric Colburn, PLS

Month: August 2011

  • FCC Chairman Promises to Protect GPS from LightSquared Interference

    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tells reporters that the FCC will not allow interference to GPS from the proposed LightSquared hybrid satellite/terrestrial broadband wireless service. At yesterday’s press conference with reporters after the FCC’s Aug. 9 monthly meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski made very encouraging comments concerning LightSquared’s January waiver concerning the more recent testing results showing overwhelming…

  • Sokkia SHC236 Data Collector Packed with Features

    Sokkia’s SHC236 Data Collector Packed with Features Olathe, Kan., – August 4, 2011 – Sokkia Corporation’s SHC236 is designed with advanced technology features for handheld data collection. Ed Castelan, product marketing manager for survey products, said, “The SHC236 is a powerful handheld data collector with all the features needed to compete in today’s market.”

  • MicroSurvey Releases FieldGenius 2011

    MicroSurvey® Releases FieldGenius 2011 July 29th, 2011 – West Kelowna, BC – MicroSurvey is pleased to announce a major version update to MicroSurvey FieldGenius, the world’s most powerful data collection software for land surveyors. FieldGenius 2011 now supports more devices than ever, under a wider variety of hardware configurations – high definition, standard definition, tablet-style, portrait…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07

    Eric Colburn #FollowFriday List is out! http://bit.ly/cGpsje ? Top stories today via @bluegrassmuseum @cad_notes @wkfd # A 21st Century Approach to Ground Surveying http://cot.ag/pv6Ybz # The Autocad Civil 3D Daily is out! http://bit.ly/9tEFwi ? Top stories today via @cadrelations @louisaholland @johnevansdesign @cadmasters # Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS http://cot.ag/rg0epx # The Professional Land…

  • ‘How do you Topcon?’ Video Contest Launched

    LIVERMORE, Calif. –Wednesday, August 3, 2011 “How do you Topcon?” is the theme for Topcon Positioning Systems’ (TPS) new video contest aimed at showing how customers put TPS instruments to work. The contest will run August 1 through October 31, 2011. Participants will upload a short video (maximum 120 seconds) showing how they use Topcon…

  • Leica Cyclone 7.2 Improves Processing of Rich, “As-built” Point Clouds from Laser Scanning

    29 July 2011 (Heerbrugg, 29 July 2011) – Leica Geosystems announces new Leica Cyclone v7.2 software that improves office processing and use of rich “as-built” point cloud data. Several innovations in Leica Cyclone 7.2 address key market needs and trends in the processing and use of rich, as-built point cloud data from laser scanning/High-Definition Surveying™. One…