Topcon, Leica Sponsor REAL 2015 3D Sensor Conference
REAL 2015: Capture, Compute, Create will be held Feb. 25–26 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. REAL is designed to explore the professional 3D sensing, creation, and visualization industries. It includes an executive summit and a world’s fair of cutting-edge 3D demonstrations, and is organized by Autodesk.
According to organizers, “From drones to autonomous cars, industrial robots to major engineering works, and game consoles to tomorrow’s mobile phones, 3D sensors are suddenly everywhere. And several decades after first grabbing headlines, VR and 3D printing are hot again, attracting billions in investment, and moving beyond early adopters to professionals. But it is the sum total, where sensing meets making, where big change is brewing.”
Sponsors include Leica Geosystems and Topcon. Two Topcon experts will speak at the event: Jason Hallett, Topcon vice president of global product management, and Eduardo Falcon, executive vice president and general manager of the GeoPositioning Solutions Group.
“The Topcon line of advanced 3D imaging and mapping technologies are designed for a wide range of geospatial applications providing data-rich results,” Falcon said. “REAL 2015 presents opportunities to explore how our mobile and static scanning solutions can be utilized in forward-thinking ways, as 3D sensing and reality capture continue to permeate traditional and non-traditional industries alike.”
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“Beam me down Scotty”
Radio signals from outer space are the foundation on which our patented surveying system is constructed. Transmissions from 30 American and Russian GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites circling the globe from 12,000 miles out in space enable our field personnel to locate any point on the surface of the earth to an accuracy of +/- 1 centimeter. By combining this technology with ultra high resolution satellite and aerial imagery Certified Real Estate Services has developed what many consider to be the world’s most comprehensive land surveying system.
No longer limited to terrestrial measurements
GPS eliminates many of the constraints associated with the field data collection processes that surveyors have been using for hundreds of years. Not only does this new technology replace the need for line-of-sight measurements it allows our surveyors to place extremely accurate “real world” coordinates on the position of the land features we locate.
A picture is worth a thousand surveyors
GPS also controls the digital cameras that collect the images we use. This allows our ALTA survey customers to use their computer to actually make accurate measurements right on the digital images we prepare. However, the real cost savings of our system come when we coordinate these high resolution digital images with our GPS field data because the digital cameras we use can collect more point data in 1/250 of a second than a bus load of surveyors could collect in a month.
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Yours truly,
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