Tag: Agriculture
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Topcon Names Wilson New Agricultural Test Engineer for North America Product Testing
OLATHE, Kan. – Monday, January 6, 2014 Topcon Precision Agriculture (TPA) has named Jared Wilson as ag test engineer for the North America market. Wilson will report to Kurtis Kenne, TPA manager of global field testing.
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Hemisphere GPS Introduces New miniEclipse™ Compact OEM Modules with GNSS Support
Hemisphere GPS Introduces New miniEclipse™ Compact OEM Modules with GNSS Support CALGARY, March 28, 2012 /CNW/ – (TSX: HEM) Today, Hemisphere GPS announces the Eclipse™ P300 and Eclipse P301 OEM modules – the next generation high-performance compact modules for RTK GNSS applications. Based on new Hemisphere GPS multi-function application firmware and Eclipse GNSS multi-constellation technology, P300 and P301 provide…
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Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software Establish Strategic Alliance
Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software Establish Strategic Alliance SCOTTSDALE, AZ, Feb. 16, 2012 /CNW/ – (TSX: HEM) Today, Hemisphere GPS and Carlson Software announced a strategic alliance. This alliance will provide a roadmap for new, integrated solutions for land survey, mapping, construction, mining and other key machine control markets. Carlson Software is a leading developer of field…
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Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints
Trimble Offers Custom Topographic, Aerial and Hybrid Map Prints
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Hemisphere GPS Announces New A31 Precision GPS Beacon Antenna
Calgary, AB — September 6, 2011 — (TSX: HEM) Today, Hemisphere GPS announces the all new A31 antenna. Designed for use with Hemisphere GPS’ popular Crescent ® and Crescent Vector™ L1 receivers, A31 provides improved 300 KHz Beacon and L-Band (OmniSTAR ®) reception and excellent GPS L1 multi-path mitigation with superior noise rejection. A31 is a multi-band (GPS…
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‘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…
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Ashtech Names DigitalGeo GIS Distributor for Portugal
DigitalGeo, a startup Portuguese GIS distributor, has been selected to represent the Ashtech® GIS product line in Portugal. “We have high expectations for the innovative newly formed DigitalGeo,” said Ashtech EMEA Sales Director, Jean-Marc Ferre. “They have been fast out of the gate, representing industry leaders ESRI®, Digiterra Hungary, Laser Technology Inc. and now Ashtech.”
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Professional Land Surveyor News-Hemisphere GPS Announces New Earthworks Dealers
Professional Land Surveyor News-Hemisphere GPS Announces New Earthworks(R) Dealers Yesterday, in Scottsdale, AZ, Hemisphere GPS (TSX: HEM) announced the addition of three new Earthworks dealers to the company’s distribution network. These three channel partners cover the territory including mid-Atlantic and Western States and represent the Hemisphere GPS Earthworks product portfolio, including the X200 excavator machine guidance…
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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,…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Ashtech Releases New Firmware and Radio Option for ProFlex GNSS Receivers
Ashtech® has introduced a new GNSS firmware upgrade for the entire ProFlex™ line of products, including the ProFlex 500, ProFlex 500 Marine, ProFlex 500 CORS, ProFlex Lite and ProFlex Lite Duo. The new firmware features as standard: Hot Stand-By RTK: Doubles the assurance that an RTK position is always available and robust. Advanced Raw Data…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble Posts $319 Million In First Quarter Revenue
Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble Posts $319.0 Million In First Quarter Revenue On April 29th, Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) announced that for the first quarter, which ended on April 2, 2010, its revenue increased approximately 10% when compared to the first quarter of 2009. The total revenue reported by Trimble for the first quarter of 2010 is $319.0…
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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…
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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,…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica Geosystems Launches SmartNet North America
Leica Geosystems Launches SmartNet North America 1 March 2010 (Norcross, GA., 1 March 2010) – Leica Geosystems, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of SmartNet North America. SmartNet is a subscription based service offering GNSS Network RTK corrections throughout North America with Leica Geosystems directly operating, managing, and maintaining all segments of the network.…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble Announces Updated Suite of Mapping and GIS Software with New Postprocessing Engine
Trimble Announces Updated Suite of Mapping and GIS Software with New Postprocessing Engine SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2009 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today significant updates to its entire portfolio of Mapping & GIS field and office software products. These enhancements focus on improved Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) accuracy for data collection under a…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Autodesk and Trimble Create AutoCAD Civil 3D Data Exchange Tool to Help Break Down Barrier Between Engineering and Construction
Autodesk and Trimble Create AutoCAD Civil 3D Data Exchange Tool to Help Break Down Barrier Between Engineering and Construction Extension Enables Automated Data Exchange Between AutoCAD Civil 3D Model and Trimble Construction Solutions SUNNYVALE and SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that they have collaborated…
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Hemisphere GPS and Handheld Group Announce Strategic Partnership and A New DGPS Receiver
ARLSRUHE, Germany, Sept. 22 /CNW/ – (TSX: HEM) Hemisphere GPS and Handheld Group jointly announced their strategic partnership today from the InterGeo Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. Through this partnership, Hemisphere GPS offers a custom version of its advanced GPS receiver technology to the GIS data collection market as the Handheld-branded Kenaz DGPS receiver. The new…