Trimble GNSS Planning website

Trimble has released a new GNSS Planning website. Trimble GNSS Planning You can use this website to plan out your daily GNSS data collection projects. It assists you in letting you see when the most satellites will be in view...

Mark Trail Features Aerial LiDAR

This week, the nationally syndicated Mark Trail comic strip discussed aerial LiDAR. This very simple overview is fun to see in a national newspaper. One point to correct would be that LiDAR does not penetrate objects. As ranging lasers pass …

Using a Drone for Gas Line Inspection?

Is it possible to use an aircraft instead of a team of earthbound inspectors to check a gas line for leaks? Last week Seiler Instrument was in Illinois demonstrating how it’s possible to get off the ground and examine hundreds …

Data Collection Workflows with Lasers

Laser Technology Inc is having a webinar May 22nd 2018 at 9 AM Central time: “How to Combat Costly and Tedious Data Collection Workflows with #LaserGIS®”   Click Here or on the photo above to register for the webinar. In...

Seiler helps Support Engineers Without Borders USA- SIUC

Seiler loves to help support schools and nonprofit organizations like Engineers without Borders, USA, to help improve quality of life in worldwide communities and specifically, we focus on where we can help most – ones with land surveying needs. Seiler...

ESRI Mobile App Comparison

Cloud based applications are now taking a front row seat in field data collection and asset management. The majority of users have smart phones in their pockets and can use these to collect data in the field. As data collectors …

R1 Antenna Location

When using just the R1 antenna and collecting GNSS locations and features, always be aware of where the location of the antenna is located. “Where is the antenna actually located on the Trimble R1?” The antenna is located at the...

Trimble Catalyst – Getting Started

Trimble Catalyst – Getting Started   The Catalyst Support website: https://catalyst.trimble.com/support.htm Trimble Catalyst Getting Started: https://catalyst.trimble.com/getting-started.htm FAQ’s: https://catalyst.trimble.com/faqs.htm Compatible Android...

Coordinate Systems in Terrasync

Coordinate Systems in Terrasync: How and why to use them In this short Tech Tip video we will be discussing coordinate systems in Terrasync. How to navigate to where the coordinate system is located and why we would change the...

Are Drones Accurate?

  Are Drones Accurate? – For the common photogrammetry workflow, surveyors can count on accuracy of between 1 and 3 times the ground sample distance within the imagery collected by the drone. This is to say 1-3x the distance between...