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Hexagon Strengthens Software Portfolio with Acquisition of Listech Land Surveying Software Company

January 29, 2013 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Hexagon, Land Surveying, Members, News, Surveying Software

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Hexagon Strengthens Software Portfolio with Acquisition of Listech

Hexagon AB, leading global provider of design, measurement and visualization solutions, has acquired Listech, a software development company dedicated to increasing the efficiency, accuracy and productivity of professional surveyors and engineers.

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Merrick & Company Wins First Place in the Leica Geosystems Civil/Survey Category of the “High Definition Surveying (HDS) Plan” Contest

November 26, 2012 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Hexagon, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Leica, Leica, Members, News, Remote Sensing, Surveying Software

Merrick & Company Winning Hexagon Poster

Merrick & Company Winning Hexagon Poster

SURVEY TEAM RECEIVES 1ST PLACE

COLORADO – Merrick & Company won first place in the civil/survey category of the “High Definition Surveying (HDS) Plan” contest, hosted by Leica Geosystems.  The annual event is part of a worldwide conference, Hexagon 2012. The awards program allows Leica HDS/laser scanning users to submit posters with laser scanning deliverables in one of three categories, including buildings/heritage, civil/survey, and plant/marine. Winners were judged on completeness of plan, creative use of point cloud, creative use of model, and overall appearance.

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MicroSurvey Announces MicroSurvey Layout and MicroSurvey Point Prep

November 8, 2012 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Members, MicroSurvey, News, Surveying Software

MicroSurvey Layout

MicroSurvey Layout

November 7th, 2012 – MicroSurvey® Announces MicroSurvey Layout and MicroSurvey Point Prep (West Kelowna, BC, Canada November 7, 2012) – MicroSurvey is pleased to announce two new products built specifically for construction layout and MEP contractors.

MicroSurvey Point Prep is an easy to use desktop program designed to help contractors prepare all of the field data they will need on a job site before leaving the office. Users can open AutoCAD® DWG® and DXF files with Point Prep and use the many built-in tools to help them hide or eliminate unnecessary data. Point Prep makes it easy to create coordinates, input plan data from paper plans, create point patterns, compute offset points, create DTM models and prepare as-built drawings.

MicroSurvey Point Prep 2013

MicroSurvey Point Prep 2013

MicroSurvey Layout is a simple to use locating program designed specifically for contractors. Used on its own, or in conjunction with Point Prep, MicroSurvey Layout gives you all the tools you need to layout your points accurately and easily. Also included is an as-built mode that allows you to measure existing points on a job or pickup points while computing earthwork quantities. MicroSurvey Layout supports all major brands of total stations and GNSS receivers, and can be installed and used on numerous data collector platforms including tablet computers. The Professional version includes advanced surface and road staking for highway contractors.

“Both products can be used separately but when used together they provide the contractor with a very powerful office and field solution,” adds Jason Poitras, COO with MicroSurvey Software Inc. Point Prep syncs easily with Layout so points and drawing data can be easily synced between both programs.

MicroSurvey invites you to experience all that Point Prep and Layout have to offer by downloading a free trial version today. Trial versions for your desktop, tablet, or mobile device can be downloaded by visiting the MicroSurvey website.

About MicroSurvey

MicroSurvey Software Inc., now a member of the Hexagon family of companies, has been developing software and hardware solutions for the surveying and mapping industry for more than twenty five years.

Leica Geosystems Announces Leica RCD30 Multi-Head Camera Concept

June 9, 2012 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Leica, Leica, Members, News, Orthophotos, Remote Sensing, Surveying Software

Leica RCD30 Multi-Head Camera Concept

Leica RCD30 Multi-Head Camera Concept

Leica Geosystems announces Leica RCD30 multi-head camera concept

(Heerbrugg, 6 June 2012) - Leica Geosystems, the world’s leading manufacturer of airborne mapping solutions, announced today that it is expanding the very popular Leica RCD30 series of medium format cameras by adding dual-head and penta-head solutions to the portfolio.

The Leica RCD30 combines unique design features such as bi-directional motion compensation and beamsplitter technology. The Leica RCD30 is the only medium-format camera to generate highly accurate, co-registered multispectral imagery from one camera head for photogrammetric and remote sensing mapping applications.

“We are very pleased with the market acceptance of this revolutionary imaging technology. Our rapidly growing customer base worldwide indicates that this innovative technology exceeds their expectations in image quality, accuracy and productivity,” says Ruedi Wagner, Vice President Imaging at Hexagon Geosystems’ Geospatial Solutions Division. “Once again we have listened to the market and will now expand on the success of the Leica RCD30 design with dual-head and penta-head configurations. We are confident that the industry-first design of a camera head capable of acquiring multispectral data in RGB and NIR combined with four camera heads acquiring RGB data will be of particular interest to such high-growth markets as 3D city and urban mapping.”

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup February 5, 2012

February 5, 2012 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Business Videos, Continuing Education, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Videos, Links, MicroSurvey, News, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup January 22, 2012

January 22, 2012 in Associate Membership, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Business, Continuing Education, ESRI, Geomatics, GIS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Land Surveying Videos, Links, LizardTech, News, Orthophotos, Professional Land Surveyor Practice, Remote Sensing, Sokkia, Surveying Software, Technology Videos, Videos

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MicroSurvey Software Acquired by Hexagon

January 19, 2012 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, MicroSurvey, News, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

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MicroSurvey Software Acquired by Hexagon

January 19th, 2012 – MicroSurvey is excited to announce that The Hexagon Group has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of MicroSurvey Software Inc., the leading Canadian based developer of surveying and mapping software for the land surveying, construction, and forensic markets.

“MicroSurvey has grown very rapidly in the last 2 years and the acquisition by Hexagon gives us the means to grow even faster and keep pace with the ever-growing customer demand. Our team is extremely excited about this acquisition as it provides us the vehicle for further investment in innovation and greater access to the market”, stated Darcy Detlor, president of MicroSurvey Software. Mr. Detlor will continue as president of MicroSurvey.

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Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0 for Viva Total Station and Viva GNSS with Exciting New Features

October 4, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, GNSS, GPS, Hexagon, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, Leica, News, Surveying Software

Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0 for Viva Total Station and Viva GNSS with exciting new features

4 October 2011

Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0

Leica SmartWorx Viva v4.0

(Norcross, GA Oct 4, 2011) – Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce version 4.0 of the easy-to-use Leica SmartWorx Viva onboard software being available in November 2011. This new version is packed with exciting new features to make data collection and stakeout even simpler and even more productive.

Leica Geosystems is committed to continually improve and extend Leica SmartWorx Viva surveying software. Ever since the initial launch of SmartWorx Viva in November 2009 there has been 2 major releases each year. This is again the case – 6 months after the release of SmartWorx Viva v3.5 there is now available SmartWorx Viva v4.0.

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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

September 25, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, ClearEdge3D, Geomatics, GIS, GNSS, GPS, Hemisphere GPS, Javad GNSS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, Links, Locata, News, NOAA, PCI Geomatics, Surveying Software, Topcon

Updates & Upgrades

In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup, I want to explain a few site upgrades in addition to this week’s summary.

If you are a regular visitor here, you’ve no doubt noticed a new look. You also might have found some of the site features updated, too. What’s happening, simply is that we are performing a major upgrade to the site software. It, no doubt, will take us some time to make every necessary update and upgrade, but we will try to keep the inconveniences to a minimum. All will be soon in order.

But there’s more: Seeing as we were already upgrading the site software, we decided this was the time to improve the site look and function, too. So, don’t be surprised to see a new look and layout rolling out this week. When all is said and done, we’re confident you will find the new updates, upgrades, and look well worth a few hiccups while we make these improvements.

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Hexagon Enters Into Exclusive Partnership with Locata Corporation for a Completely New Positioning Technology

September 23, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, GPS, Hexagon, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Leica, Locata, News

Hexagon has entered into an exclusive industry partnership with Locata Corporation Pty Ltd to integrate the revolutionary Locata positioning technology with Hexagon’s positioning receivers. This collaboration will leverage each company’s expertise to create the world’s first combined GPS-Locata positioning receiver. For the first time customers will have access to a tightly integrated solution providing high-precision positioning without satellites.

“Accurate positioning is a critical part of innumerable modern applications and Hexagon is undeniably a leader in supplying these GPS-style positioning and measurement technologies through our Leica Geosystems and NovAtel brands.” said Ola Rollén, Hexagon’s President and CEO. “However, as new applications for machine automation and robotics increasingly move into environments like mining and indoor warehousing – where satellite signals are blocked, unreliable or unavailable – it has become very clear there is a need for a ground-based back-up to GPS.”

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Leading VFX Data Capture Company 4DMax Invest in the Latest Leica High-Definition Surveying Technology

April 30, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Geomatics, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Leica, News, Remote Sensing

Duncan Lees with the Leica ScanStation C10 at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

Duncan Lees with the Leica ScanStation C10 at Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

UK based 4DMax, a leading company in the film, TV, visual FX and Forensic 3D data capture market has recently purchased the latest Leica High-Definition SurveyingTM (HDS) ScanStation C10 to enhance its 3D data capture services.

Duncan Lees, Co-Owner and Director, 4DMax comments: “Working across a number of markets from big Hollywood blockbuster movies such as John Carter of Mars, Captain America, X Men First Class and the new Narnia film, to major TV programmes including Monumental Challenge, Mummy Forensics and the Time Team to police forensic work, 3D data capture is core to the success of our business. Since forming the company in 2009 4DMax has grown beyond my expectations as these market begin to realise the full potential of 3D data capture.“

“We have been working with the HDS team at Leica Geosystems UK for a number of years to hire their scanning instruments but as we continue to grow, it was important for us to own a scanner to be able to fulfil our clients needs and cope with the influx of new projects both in the UK and internationally.“

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Leica Geosystems Announces New HDS7000 Ultra High-Speed, Phase Scanner

April 12, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, Laser Scanning, Leica, Remote Sensing

11 April 2011

Leica Geosystems HDS7000 Ultra High-Speed Phase Scanner

Leica Geosystems HDS7000 Ultra High-Speed, Phase Scanner

Leica Geosystems Announces New HDS7000 Ultra High-Speed, Phase Scanner

(Norcross, GA April 2011) Leica Geosystems announces the HDS7000, a new phase-based laser scanner that lets users take advantage of ultra-high speed scanning for more scanning applications on more sites. The HDS7000 features key enhancements over its predecessor thanks to its rugged design, excellent environmental specs, and low-noise data:

  • Longer range at which vertical surfaces can now be detected over 100m
  • New, graphical on-board user interface
  • Reduced range noise at longer ranges
  • Class 1 laser for sites that require this classification

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing Reduces Flight Lines and Increases Productivity

April 26, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, Leica, News, Surveying Software

Professional Land Surveyor News

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing Reduces Flight Lines and Increases Productivity

Today, Leica Geosystems announced that their leading line sensor workflow, the Leica XPro, has been updated with new features.  Leica XPro  4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing provides advanced ground processing from data download to image generation and users of the new version XPro 4.3 can now take advantage of the Leica HiRes orthophoto processing. Leica says that this will increases orthophoto productivity by reducing the number of flight lines.

About Leica Geosystems

Leica Geosystems has a long history of almost 200 years of land surveying and measuring solutions. You’ve got to love a company, like Leica Geosystems, whose moto is “When it has to be right.“ Professionals from around the globe utilize Leica Geosystems products and services to help them capture, analyze, and present spatial information. Leica Geosystems, part of the Hexagon Group, Sweden, is based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland. They report having over 3,500 employees, tens of thousands of customers located in 28 countries, and hundreds of partners located in more than 120 countries around the world.

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