Eric Colburn, PLS

Category: Topcon

  • Midwest Architects & Engineers Supply Joins the GeoShack Family

    Midwest Architects & Engineers Supply Joins the GeoShack Family

    Midwest Survey Joins the GeoShack Family DALLAS, TX – GeoShack North America, Inc. continues to grow with their latest announcement that Midwest Architects & Engineers Supply Inc. has joined the GeoShack family. Midwest A&E was founded in 1956 by Ed Nicholson and has been at its present location, 400 North Grove Road in Richardson, Texas since 1984.  Current…

  • The Topcon Group Announces Magnet Cloud-Based Software for Real-Time Collaboration

    The Topcon Group Announces Magnet Cloud-Based Software for Real-Time Collaboration

    The Topcon Group announces Magnet cloud-based software for real-time collaboration LIVERMORE, Calif. –Thursday, October 13, 2011 The Topcon Group announces a unique cloud-based enterprise solution and cloud-enabled family of software applications – Magnet™ – for all precise positioning projects. The new software solution makes it possible for real-time collaboration between project manager, field crews, office…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 16, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup October 16, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16 Topcon GR-5 Product Video GENIVAR ACQUIRES LE GROUPE GIROUX, A LEADING QUEBEC-BASED GEOMATICS AND SURVEYING FIRM Topcon Announces Tesla Large Screen Data Collector GeoDesign Summit Promotes Practical Applications LightSquared – Part Two Video on The Communicators AutoCAD Civil 3D for Roads…

  • Topcon GR-5 Product Video

    Topcon GR-5 Product Video

    GR-5 Features: 216 Universal Tracking Channels G3 Tracking Technology (GPS/GLONASS/GALILEO) Advanced Fence Antenna™ Technology – Unsurpassed tracking and performance Sophisticated, High Accuracy RTK technology with position updates up to 100Hz Integrated Dual Communication System with multiple Radio and Cellular combinations 32GB SDHC storage support Dual hot-swappable batteries “One look at the new GR-5, and you…

  • Topcon Announces Tesla Large Screen Data Collector

    Topcon Announces Tesla Large Screen Data Collector

    Topcon announces Tesla, large screen data collector New unit features advantages of tablet PC and handheld computer Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announces a new larger screen data collector – Topcon Tesla™ featuring the advantages of a tablet PC and a rugged handheld computer. The announcement was made at Intergeo in Nuremberg, Germany. Intergeo is the…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011

    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…

  • ‘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…

  • New Topcon Total Stations Are Chosen for Europe’s Largest Construction Project

    105 MS05AX units to be used in London tunneling project LIVERMORE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. announces the recent award of an order for more than 100 high precision robotic total stations for the Crossrail project in London, UK. The order is one of the single largest orders for total stations ever recorded. “We are…

  • Topcon Releases the MS Series of High-Precision Robotic Total Stations in North and South America.

    Topcon MS robotic series opens new era in precision measurements LIVERMORE, Calif. – Thursday, June 16, 2011 Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announces the release of the MS Series of high-precision robotic total stations in North and South America.  “The MS ‘measuring station’ opens a new era in ultra-precision measurements,” said Denny Welch, senior vice president of…

  • XYGO Maps Chile’s Major Cities with Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) IP-S2 LiDAR

    XYGO, based in Santiago, Chile, is using Topcon Positioning Systems’ (TPS) IP-S2 to map all of central Chile’s main cities with LiDAR. The IP-S2 is a vehicle-mounted system with three laser scanners and a multi-lens digital camera.  Data collection can be performed at normal roadway travel speeds as the system collects millions of LiDAR points…

  • Topcon GR-5 Satellite Receiver Sets New Standard in Signal Tracking, Job Site Precision

      LIVERMORE, Calif. – March 17, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its patented Fence AntennaTM technology and expanded channel support in the new GR-5 GNSS receiver. The GR-5 provides industry-leading tracking sensitivity and multipath rejection in a compact and lightweight package. In 2006, Topcon introduced the GR-3 GNSS receiver, which made the term…

  • Topcon Announces RTP-300 for High-Speed Surface Profiling

    LIVERMORE, Calif. – January 17, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) new RTP-300 Real Time Profiler collects surface data at speeds up to 65 miles per hour (105 km/hr) and creates an exact model of the existing surface. The RTP-300’s data collection system includes a Topcon GNSS dual-constellation satellite receiver system, three laser profilers, wheel…

  • Topcon GPT-3200 Series of Total Stations for Enhanced Performance

    Topcon GPT-3200 series of total stations for enhanced performance LIVERMORE, Calif. – January 5, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has released two new series of reflectorless total stations – the GPT-3200NW and GPT-3200N. The GPT-3200NW series offers an array of new features that includes enhanced non-prism measurement performance, improved user interface, and increased onboard…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series LIVERMORE, Calif. – November 8, 2010 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its new generation of robotic total stations, the QS Series (Quick Station). The QS Series – featuring the X-TRAC 8 prism tracking technology – is designed to “provide unprecedented power and speed to…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Corporation Appoints Di Federico To Executive Committee

    Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Corporation Appoints Di Federico To Executive Committee LIVERMORE, Calif. – August 5, 2010 – Ivan Di Federico, who was recently named chief strategy officer of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), has been selected to join the Topcon Corporation executive committee for the Tokyo-based positioning business unit. In making the announcement, Ray O’Connor,…

  • The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 2

    An Introduction and Welcome to The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast. Contact Me If You Are Interested in Supporting This Podcast And Be A Sponsor. Twitter Tweepout Facebook Fanaticus Focus Linkedin Land Surveyor Lookout Professional Land Surveyor News University of Maine Proposed Survey Engineering Technology (SVT) Program Budget Cuts Professional Land Surveyor Marketing Tips

  • Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology

    Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced this week that they’ve released their new DL-500 digital levels series, which uses digital ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology for the very first time. Of course we’ve had optical ‘Wave-and-Read’ technology for eons – it’s called an instrument person looking…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System

    Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System. Here’s some recent news about one company, the PPI Group, that is using cutting edge surveying and mapping solutions for infrastructure and mapping projects. To do this they are using Topcon’s vehicle-mounted, mobile 3D precision mobile mapping and survey system, the Topcon…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon Names Fraser Smith Director of GNSS Product Management

    Topcon names Smith director of GNSS product management LIVERMORE, Calif. – March 4, 2010 – Fraser Smith, a geomatics engineer with extensive experience in GNSS product research and development (R&D), has been named director of GNSS product management for Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS). Smith, former R&D manager for Point, Inc., will report to Mark Hornstra,…

  • Laser Scanning Trafalgar Square from the Fourth Plinth

    Here is a cool video of  Topcon GLS-1000 scanner land surveying equipment used to map and to acquire the dataset of Trafalgar Square from the Fourth Plinth.