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Yes, it's in the middle of prime field season. Yes it's a GIS conference. Yes, it costs time and money to go. But that doesn't mean you should miss this prime opportunity to mix with high-caliber survey professionals.
Attending the Annual ESRI Networking Conference
As much as surveyors, engineers and constructors may not appreciate geographic information systems (GIS) technology, at some point everyone should attend at least the ESRI Survey/Engineering Summit and the first couple of days of the ESRI User Conference held every summer in San Diego, California. This is not a GIS sales pitch. It's a networking sales pitch. When other conferences are struggling to maintain attendance levels, the ESRI conferences seemingly never fail to grow in attendance. This year, it attracted some 15,000 people from 120 countries. That means gobs of GIS people, and also gobs of surveyors and engineers.
The Survey/Engineering Summit is a much smaller subset with some 500 attendees, and takes place the weekend before the User Conference. This year, it was the first weekend in August. Although relatively small in size, the conference is significant enough to attract someone the caliber of Col. Dave Madden as a keynote speaker. Col. Madden is the U.S. Air Force GPS Wing Commander, and as such he's in charge of GPS. With a fiscal 2009 budget of $1.5B, it is the fourth largest budget in the U.S. Air Force. That means he has some clout, and that's the quality of speaker that the ESRI conferences have the ability to attract. read more>>
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AnyDATA Debuts AnyTrack GPS-120 Tracker
AnyDATA Corp. has unveiled its AnyTrack GPS-120, a real-time theft prevention and inventory management tracker designed to minimize fuel and operating costs of heavy equipment, as well as theft or unauthorized use, the company says. read more>>
CPAC Systems to Use Hemisphere GPS for Steer-by-Wire
Hemisphere GPS says it has entered into a contractual agreement in which it will supply CPAC Systems AB with custom-built LV100 GPS Compasses for use in embedded control systems. read more>>
Best-Fit Computing Launches Network Software Upgrade
Best-Fit Computing, Inc., has released a major upgrade to its COLUMBUS Network Adjustment Software, used in the survey and construction field. Version 3.7.2.x provides powerful coordinate transformation and network pre-analysis and adjustment capabilities, the company said. This release features new data management grids for intuitive, spreadsheet-style data input and editing for datums, stations, and observations. Cell-level validation for expected value range and type streamlines data maintenance. read more>>
GeoSpatial Experts Adds Capabilities to GPS-Photo Link
GeoSpatial Experts of Thornton, Colorado, has released Version 4.2 of its GPS-Photo Link photo mapping software. The new version includes enhanced capabilities to convert output files to a State Plane Coordinate System or a NAD83 HARN datum. GPS-Photo Link users can now also generate printable reports of their photo-mapping projects. read more>>
Topcon Offers GNSS OEM Boards
Topcon Positioning has announced four OEM (original equipment manufacturer) boards for navigation applications. read more>>
Hemisphere GPS Expands Precision Farming Guidance Line
The Outback S3 precision farming system combines the most popular features of the Outback S2 and the Outback 360 with the latest developments in Crescent GPS receiver technology, Hemisphere GPS has announced. The 8.4-inch high-resolution touchscreen displays clear and easy-to-read job data in real time, the company says. The unit has guidance patterns and the ability to set multiple guidance lines and return points in a single job. read more>>
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Carrier-Phase Multipath Calibration in GPS-RTK Machine-Guidance Applications
Machine guidance systems have been used for construction, mining and agriculture to improve productivity and safety in operating dozers, motor graders, excavators, scrapers, tractors and harvesters. To guide the machines, robotic total stations, GNSS RTK systems, and other sensors (laser systems, INS) have been used in 3D guidance systems. Among the system components, the RTK system takes a key role in providing positioning and navigation information. read more>> |
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NavtechGPS Tutorials -- ION GNSS 2008
September 15, 2008 - September 16, 2008
Savannah, GA
GNSS Solutions Tutorials -- ION GNSS 2008
September 15, 2008 - September 16, 2008
Savannah, GA
ION GNSS 2008
September 16, 2008 - September 19, 2008
Savannah, GA
2008 GIS for Oil & Gas
September 21, 2008 - September 24, 2008
Houston, TX
International Symposium on GPS/GNSS 2008
November 11, 2008 - November 14, 2008
Toyko, Japan
International Committee on GNSS Meeting
December 8, 2008 - December 12, 2008
Pasadena, CA
International LIDAR Mapping Forum
January 26, 2009 - January 28, 2009
New Orleans, LA
Map World Forum
February 10, 2009 - February 13, 2009
Hyderbad, India
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