Terry Lueschow, RLS Retires - New Beginnings and more... Terry Lueschow, RLS Retires - Continues as a Seiler Ambassador for Continuing Education. They say to begin with the end in mind. When you are a surveyor, there really is no end, but beginnings to new points to be established. One of the best points in [...]
Discontinuing support for Trimble Connected Community Trimble® Access™, AccessSync support for Trimble Connected Community (TCC) is being discontinued. All Geospatial Organizations using the TCC platform for AccessSync file synchronization should transition to using the Trimble Connect platform before August 16th 2019. You can find details here on link to Trimble Product Bulletin. Any questions contact [...]
GPS Week Number Rollover (WNRO) is coming up April 6, 2019, at GPS Midnight. A GPS week rollover will occur at the end of the GPS day on 6 April 2019, at which time the GPS week will transition from week 2047 to 2048.Trimble has posted an excellent web page reference to this event. To [...]
We are celebrating National Surveying Week March 17-23, 2019. Seiler Instrument / Seiler Geospatial is part of this important history as a St. Louis Maker of Surveying Instruments. Did you know that Seiler Instrument/Seiler Geospatial, played an important role in surveying history as one of the original makers of surveying instruments from the St. Louis [...]
Since the early days of satellite-based surveying, geospatial professionals have struggled to get centimeter-level accuracy when working on remote sites. Enter real-time kinematic (RTK) and real-time GNSS networks (RTN), both providing centimeter-level positioning in real time. In a recent article in America Surveyor, Trimble’s Mark Richter looks at the limitations of RTK and RTN and [...]
Christian Brodbeck is an engineering professor with Alabama’s Auburn University. On a recent trip to East Africa, he and six students constructed a water distribution system in an isolated village in Rwanda where there is no electricity or running water. And, of course, no WiFi. Yet Brodbeck has received some of the highest accuracy positioning [...]
Delair Expands Drone Repair and Maintenance Operations to US Service Firms, one which is Seiler Instrument. Seiler Instrument is pleased to be selected as one of the two United States Service and Repair Centers qualified to provide comprehensive customer support for its Delair UX11 advanced mapping and surveying drone. Seiler's training took place at Delair’s main [...]
One of the world’s most famous volcanoes, Italy’s Mount Etna, is also among the most active. Etna’s ongoing eruptions attract scientists seeking to better understand the volcanic activity and develop tools to predict the mountain’s behavior. In a recent interview with Trimble experts, geophysicists from Slovakia and Italy discuss how they use a Trimble® R10 [...]
Thank you to our customers for helping us support our veterans and attending our Customer Appreciation Days/Open Houses this past Summer. Seiler Instrument held our annual open house/customer appreciation days late this summer. We host these events in five of our office locations across the Midwest; St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. This [...]
45⁰N - 90⁰W Geographic Marker Seiler Instrument is proud to have helped along with many other local surveying firms with the building and monument restoration/relocation of the 45th Parallel of Latitude and the 90th Meridian of Longitude. In short, this is known as the 45-90 Geographic Marker, which is the center of the Northwest Hemisphere. [...]