Geospatial in the News

On the revamp of Denver International Airport’s Great Hall, construction company Hensel Phelps used Boston Dynamic’s autonomous robot dogs, which are equipped with an integrated Trimble X7 scanner, to perform scans and capture 360-degree images of the site

OHM Advisors used a number of Trimble solutions, including R10 receivers and TBC software, to assess damage to water crossings and get topographic data for major failures after a freak rain storm hit Midland county, Michigan.

The integration of Larsen & Toubro’s LMNoP mobile app with Trimble Catalyst led to enhancement in positional accuracy and data quality while saving data acquisition time

Trimble’s Rob Painter quoted (with photo) in article about how the Covid-19 pandemic revealed the need for worldwide technology democratization (cover story - page 12)

CES Group Engineers was hired by Charlotte Douglas International Airport to handle the surveying work on a $3.1 billion project to renovate the airport’s concourses and expand its roadways, curb front, airfield and terminal. CES used a host of Trimble products to accomplish this task including the Trimble SX10, TSC7 controlled, Trimble Access Field software, and TBC software.

Trimble Forensics SX10, RealWorks, X7 3D laser scanning system, and Perspective software mentioned in article about how police departments are increasingly using 3D scanning to rebuild crime scenes in courtrooms.

Austrian survey company Vermessung AVT used the Trimble Inpho and MX7 solutions to provide a precise, as-built survey of a 40km narrow stretch of railway in the Lower Inn Valley east of Innsbruck near the Alps, and Trimble's Inpho Suite to process the data.

Sellin, a biologist with the National Botanical Conservatory of Brest (CBN), used Trimble’s eCognition OBIA to produce the first regional vegetation map for Brittany, France.

OHM Advisors used a number of Trimble solutions, including R10 receivers and TBC software, to assess damage to water crossings and get topographic data for major failures after a freakish rain storm hit Midland county, Michigan.

While developing their first enterprise GIS, the Port of New Orleans (NOLA) discovered that nothing beats actual high-precision GNSS field mapping.  NOLA used Trimble R2 GNSS rovers to ensure location and status of assets. 

Geomatikk Survey was hired to create a 3D model of the Bergen BT building in Norway, which was being restored. They used Trimble SX10 total station, R10 receiver, Trimble Access Field software, and Trimble TSC3 data controller for the project.

Strabag AG mounted Trimble’s MX9 mobile mapping system on a van in Germany to collect centimeter-grade survey measurements at highway speeds without sacrificing data quality.

While developing their first enterprise GIS, the Port of New Orleans (NOLA) discovered that nothing beats actual high-precision GNSS field mapping.  NOLA used Trimble R2 GNSS rovers to ensure location and status of assets. 

Texas-based Topographic Land Surveyors used Trimble CenterPoint RTX and R10 receivers to survey a 185-mile pipeline that runs from Oklahoma to Texas. (See page 8)

World Bank, the City of Detroit and iWorq show the benefits of using Trimble mobile imaging systems with Mapillary for image management and analysis.

Trimble’s eCognition software was part of a technology solution used to accurately map multi-age citrus trees in California

John Houston worked on a project for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to mitigate a serious threat to Gough Island’s bird population. He used Trimble CenterPoint RTX, R10 and other Trimble products, to collect information on topography and soils for use in planning and design of temporary facilities on theIsland, which would be used during the mice eradication project.  

RM Surveys of Perth, Australia, used Trimble’s CenterPoint RTX technology with R10 receivers and TSC3 controllers to survey the vast, remote areas of Western Australia.l

Norwegian design firm Vianova used Trimble SiteVision for a major project with the Falkenborg railway bridge and reaped immediate benefits.

AG Surveys’ project surveying beaches along England’s southwest coast as part of a national coastal monitoring program, and its use of Trimble technologies to do so, is included within a larger UAV story.

John Hamilton, a surveyor with Engineers Without Borders, used Trimble CenterPoint RTX and the R10 to capture the survey data needed for a proposed pipeline system providing water collection, storage, and pumping of fresh water to Curingue, an isolated village in the Andes Mountains in Ecuador

Geomatikk Survey was hired to create a 3D model of the Bergen BT building in Norway, which was being restored. They used Trimble SX10 total station, R10 receiver, Trimble Access Field software, and Trimble TSC3 data controller for the project.

In July 2018 researchers from Slovakia and INGV teamed up to interpret gravity changes on Italy’s Mt Etna volcano in order to better predict volcanic eruptions. Trimble R10 receiver, M3 total station, CenterPoint RTX, and TBC software were used in the project.

A Swedish Road Administration project to assess and update roadside bus stops required on-site field surveys to assess conditions at each location. They hired ÅF engineering for the project, who used Trimble R10 receivers and SX10 total stations for the work.

HMT Inspection, a service provider for the aboveground tank industry, uses Trimble’s TX5 scanner and Trimble RealWorks software, to create accurate point clouds of storage tanks to quickly and accurately determine if any portions of the tanks do not meet standards.

Trimble’s R2 GNSS receiver and CenterPoint RTX are being used in projects to install water distribution systems in underdeveloped communities in Rwanda as part of Engineers Without Borders.

Norwegian design firm Vianova used Trimble SiteVision for a major project with the Falkenborg railway bridge and reaped immediate benefits.

Engineering firm Foth was hired by the Cedar River Flood Control System for survey work on portions of a construction project involving the building of flood walls, levees, and gates along 7 miles of the river’s banks. Using the Trimble SX10 and several other Trimble products, they captured all the infrastructure elements needed and more, and debunked a previous assumption, saving the city a costly oversight.

Interview with Trimble Agriculture’s Guillermo Perez-Iturbe, who discussed the challenges for farms in adopting precision agriculture, and highlighted Trimble’s VerticalPoint RTK solution.

Trimble’s eCognition software was part of a technology solution used to accurately map multi-age citrus trees in California