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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
This week, the nationally syndicated Mark Trail comic strip discussed aerial LiDAR. This very simple overview is fun to see in a national newspaper. One point to correct would be that LiDAR does not penetrate objects. As ranging lasers pass through a tree canopy, some will strike leaves and offer a"first return" at the height [...]
Is it possible to use an aircraft instead of a team of earthbound inspectors to check a gas line for leaks? Last week Seiler Instrument was in Illinois demonstrating how it's possible to get off the ground and examine hundreds of yards of gas line in minutes using the Microdrones MDtector. This aircraft uses a [...]
Are Drones Accurate? - For the common photogrammetry workflow, surveyors can count on accuracy of between 1 and 3 times the ground sample distance within the imagery collected by the drone. This is to say 1-3x the distance between the center of each neighboring pixel in the image, with typical processing software – so [...]