Geospatial in the News

Using Trimble's software defined receiver for mobile devices, Colorado city collects and verifies data for park serving 107,000 residents. (See pg 13)

Woolpert uses geospatial solutions to locate and georeference underground utility lines in northern Ohio.

Trimble’s Jason Rossback explores the role of data in keeping pipeline infrastructure safe and sustainable; features Trimble Access Pipelines.

Trimble Geo 7X operates with Trimble’s TerraSync software is being used to streamline golf-course set-up and planning.

Trimble’s eCognition software was used in two large projects: (1) to identify and map the road network of Dubai over a 30-year period; (2) to distinguish every building and its roof type across more than 1,200 districts in Sri Lanka.

A Belgian design-build firm integrates a new class of surveying instrument into tram-link construction (Belgium SX10).

Woolpert uses geospatial solutions to locate and georeference underground utility lines in northern Ohio.

An unexpected discovery in the field helped Geomatikk Survey, a Norwegian survey company, shorten a powerline project from several days down to one and secure repeat business.

Trimble’s Locate 2 Protect (L2P) tracking technology, which is built into the Trimble S-Series Total Station, enabled London police to recover more than 30 stolen survey instruments.

Chad McFadden’s article on Washington State Patrol’s use of Trimble’s forensic solution.

The US National Park Service worked with Trimble and Frontier Precision to determine which buildings on Alaska’s Kennecott Mill site should be stabilized and rehabilitated. They used Trimble SX10, TX8 and TBC software to produce comprehensive data and imagery.

Midway through a large and complex transportation project, a team of Belgium surveyors adopted the Trimble SX10 total station and were able to fix problems with traditional equipment while finding additional benefits.

Using a number of Trimble technologies, including the SX10 and Trimble software, Star Survey was able to quickly and accurately gather data on more than 900 buildings for a project in Changchun, China, to maintain and improve city structures.

German engineering and surveying consultancy SAK was tasked with surveying the Alzkanal in Bavaria before and after canal renovation work. SAK credited their success on the project to being able to blend multiple Trimble technologies (UAS, scanning, GNSS and total stations) into one single solution.

Midway through a large and complex transportation project, a team of Belgium surveyors adopted the Trimble SX10 total station and were able to fix problems with traditional equipment while finding additional benefits.

Surveyor and engineer Rebecca Evans uses her skills, and Trimble solutions like the R8 and R10 receivers, for a construction rehabilitation project of Virginia’s Todd Lake Dam.

Trimble R5 GNSS receivers, a Trimble TSC3 controller and Trimble Business Center software were used to capture details on the Saqsaywaman ruins in Peru in an effort to understand the role and effects of water on the land and structures of Saqsaywaman.

Boris' third installment on Trimble Business Center: Cloud-based computing offers advantages in speed and cost. Desktop software is adapting to leverage the benefits.

Satellite imagery, which is processed using Trimble eCognition software, is being used to monitor populations in refugee camps in order to optimize resource use.

A Visionary Essay by Ron Bisio (pg 34).

A Trimble customer story on the use of TIMMS for indoor mapping at LAX.

Ron Bisio's column on the new perspective of the "non-gap" between surveying and GIS.

Ron Bisio's blog post on the hardware options available today to geospatial professionals.

A research scientist from the University of Salzburg is using Trimble’s eCognition software to develop and test automated approaches to landslide detection, mapping, inventorying and monitoring.  See page 28.

Washington State Patrolman Rod Green uses Trimble’s TX5 scanner and RealWorks software to simplify and speed the work of collecting and analyzing information and evidence at accident and crime scenes.

Data from Trimble R8 receivers, which were used in a Smithsonian Environmental Research Center project, can add confidence to the accuracy of seawater levels and help determine if changes in water depth are due to changes in the land or other causes.