Yearly, geo-nerds unite at this 3 day convention in Denver to point out off the most recent in high-precision know-how.
What’s up geo-nerds? We’re again from our favourite GPS conference for the second yr with a recap of the tendencies and funky issues we noticed at GEO Week, an enormous GPS/GNSS convention in our yard of Denver.
We noticed so many attention-grabbing issues and met so many inspiring folks all geeking out collectively over what’s up and coming with precision, navigation and timing tech. This is a spherical up of what our time at GeoWeek seemed like!
Disclaimer: these photographs are all unaligned and appear to be they had been taken with a potato, our deepest apologies.
Drones/UAVs
I am undecided if it simply that drones look actually flashy and futuristic, however once more this yr UAVs had an outsized presence on the conference. Possibly 1/3 of all of the cubicles had been displaying their model of a next-gen drone. Notable firms included RIEGL, WISPR (an odd penchant for omitting vowels on the ends of phrases?), and BALKO Tech, to call a number of.
Lidar/Digital Twins
The following principal theme we noticed was an enormous emphasis on Lidar, which was generally included with the drones to supply superior aerial surveying, mapping and modeling options. There have been many smaller cubicles that provided software program options for mapping and creating digital twins, which I am awarding the consideration of being the buzzword of the conference this yr – not that digital twins are something new, however you could not stroll 15 toes with out seeing the phrase on a sales space subsequent to a monitor showcasing somebody’s latest Omniverse-esque or BIM-type software program.
Surveyors
As we noticed final yr, there may be an 800 pound gorilla within the room at GEO Week in the case of the world of surveying, and whereas we can’t be speaking about them, there are all the time a small variety of smaller firms making nice surveying merchandise at a cheaper price level (we have now to throw ourselves within the combine right here, too!). It was nice to see our buddies at Emlid and Dangerous Elf once more, in addition to many others – lengthy stay the small surveying firms!
Companions
We would be remiss if we did not shout out a few of our incredible companions we bumped into at GEO Week. We noticed Level One, who’s Polaris RTK community supplies correctional knowledge for a lot of of our clients who want dependable and correct RTK repair.
Septentrio additionally had a sales space and was displaying off lots of their companion merchandise. In case you weren’t already conscious, their mosaic-X5 module has been making it is manner into our highest-end GNSS merchandise, they usually had been even in a position to present a sneak peek of of collaborative product we have now popping out very very quickly!
And talking of sneak peeks, future SparkFun companion Fugro was there! We now have a very particular mission popping out with them that was additionally displayed on the Septentrio sales space, and whereas we won’t say extra about it proper now, we do have a preview picture for you as a reward for getting thus far within the weblog! Test it out!
