Tuesday 26 September 2017:
Disclosure, I have removed some photos to keep from upsetting some individuals. I don’t think that the general feeling is changed.
You can click on the pictures to get full sized images.
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- The is the Subway entrance to the hall.
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- I just love all these targets. This particular brand is distributed in the USA by Bernstein.
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- There were some cool attachment methods for these rail prisms, magnetic bases.
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- Stackable so you can shoot from both sides. These prisms have magnetic covers so you can leave them out in the elements. The covers actually have a special stick for removing and placing in high locations
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- More pixel processing software, I think.
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- This is a 1-watt Satel repeater with an integrated internal battery. This is one of the neatest things that I saw and I am going to stock them.
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- Full data sheet for the 1-watt repeater
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- Satel now has a 900 Mhz unlicensed module that is pin compatible with the UHF radio. I think this means that I can convert our 400 MHz UHF Base/Rover to 900 Mhz.
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- The Satel Booth
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- There are quite a few construction laser suppliers who are reselling similar equipment.
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- More pixel processing.
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- Drones with radars, sliding radars at crotch level. ?
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- UAV’s with radar.
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- Walk, drive fly LIDAR systems
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- Big LIDAR
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- Hexagon (Leica) has a HUGE booth
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- Leica rail monitor
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- I want GPR and big is better. For sure. This is a pretty big device. Hexagon purchased the maker last year.
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- This is another Hexagon company
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- Just amazing monuments, markers and accessories.
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- More on GeoSLAM on a later day.
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- I think this is a European network franchise.
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- Taiwan GIS software developers. These guys are actually very nice and they have a great product.
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- Carlson had a great booth this year, we will return later for more pictures of the new mining products. This is a pano shot, that is Louis Mullen walking toward me.
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- GeoFennel is a reseller, those are ComNav receivers.
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- This is the trading company that supplies David White with Site-Pro poles, accessories.
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- This is the most unfortunate choice of names for a company at this show. Fuk-U-Da. Clearly there are no native English speakers at this Chinese supplier.
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- So Hi-Target and SatLab are the same now. (So SatLab is a sub-brand of HiTarget.) HiTarget has a new rover that has a color OLED touchscreen. It is amazing small.
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- Sokkia had a pretty large booth across the path from HiTarget.
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- The HiTarget boat.
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- Another rail monitor.
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- Really expensive high-res cameras.
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- Just amazing van conversions.
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- This is a VW van.
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- The van office is pretty nice.
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- Your crew can be completing drawings while you drive to the next job.
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- Geo++ present.
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- IMU units
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- I love this company. Covered them well last year.
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- More amazing German survey accessories.
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- OCAD was there
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- Our neighbors ‘Juniper Systems’ had a nice booth. I like the orange carpet color.
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- A Carlson competitor (I think.)
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- More Juniper Systems.
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- More processing software
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- UniStrong is the parent company. I met XP the owner for just a second. Stonex and Hemisphere are ‘sub-brands’. More on these guys later.
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- FOIF is part owned by UniStrong.
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- Foif has a robot, but I don’t think it works and I never saw the device move under it’s own power.
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- Pentax lives (kind-of). The Pentax GPS is an Altus device.
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- Pentax UAV
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- Point cloud processing software.
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- Autodesk was there.
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- GIS
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- ComNav: So many of the ComNav guys are ex CHC guys and friends of mine. We can talk about their devices later.
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- ComNav OEM boards
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- 5D BIM
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- Datumite
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- Sensfly
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- Bently
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- Topcon had a big booth.
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- FARO
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- EMLID (more on this later)
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- Kind of sad…
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- More point cloud
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- Big UAVs
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- Did I mention I want GPR?
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- This is the JAVAD booth. Big, open, approachable.
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- More point cloud
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- Mobile LIDAR
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- Accessory company. But they also sell the collumators.
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- FLIR
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- More UAVs.
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- Fujitsu
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- More CAD
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- CHC’s booth (was always packed)
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- ESRI in German
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- I think this was the Galileo satellite guys.
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- EOS
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- EOS (huge empty booth)
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- Global Mapper. I talked with Dave for an hour about the old days of Delorme. The real company is BlueMarble but I think that Global Mapper is the primary product.
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- More CAD
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- More CAD
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- More LIDAR
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- Avenza was behind BlueMarble
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- Pix4D
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- GeoMax had a big booth (and it was a long way’s from the parent company Hexagon’s booth.)
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- These look like great cable locators.
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- More insanely nice van converstions.
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- Rear facing office.
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- Top quality drawers.
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- So, I think this is a UAV company. But the name, the slogans are confusing.
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- GINTEC is a sub brand of UniStrong. They sell the Carlson BRx GPS receiver with a Trimble engine
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- More on GINTEC later.
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- You have to stop at any booth with a tank in it.
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- The Gods of NTRIP
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- Sad CAD (sorry…)
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- Orange CAD
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- More on these guys later. They are the ones who put EVERYTHING on a UAV.
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- More UAV
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- More GIS software
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- Okay, I admit these guys have big balls and they are great.
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- Hasselblad’s booth is amazing.
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- More GPS
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- That’s Gavin, Alan and Ray (from Stonex) Ray has setup a large Stonex distribution network in the USA (about 40 distributors.) Stonex is fully owned by UniStrong and they have good pricing. Basically Stonex has turned the GNSS business in Europe upside-down.
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- This is font and back of the Stonex base station.
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- Cool GIS pocket receiver.
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- Mark and Gavin
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- John Deer’s NavCom has new receivers that are way different looking. Way different. I believe that they were not real, but just mockups.
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- I think that Sanding is a sub-brand of one of the Chinese manufacturers.
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- Ruide is a sub-brand of South? Or is it Hi-Target?
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- TeXcel is not a Texas company. I think it is a sub-brand of South.
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- Jeff from Lidar USA was there with the BriSIght guys from China.
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- South’s new rover.
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- South’s GPS based heading receiver.
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- This is Harxon’s new radio module. Supposedly it is FCC certified.
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- Backside.
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- Sideside.
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- I do not understand why the antenna connector is on the bottom of the receiver and the power connector is on the top. WTF?
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- More LIDAR
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- Riegl
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- PPK and RTK manufacturer
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