Articles by Doug Murphy
A New Zealand council is hoping that the purchase of surveying equipment will help it to save money. [more]
The third European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) has made a call for submissions from surveying and engineering professionals willing to present papers at the event. [more]
- 26/04/2012
A leading authority in the development of infrastructure in Wales has said that building information modelling (BIM) is that way forward for the country’s construction industry. [more]
Five of Leica Geosystems’ ScanStation C10 laser scanners are now being used by the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) to monitor the structures of the iconic bridges that span San Francisco Bay. [more]
Leica Geosystems’ class-leading PaveSmart 3D v3.0 machine control system can now support the latest PaveManager levelling system from paving machinery specialists Dynapac. [more]
A specialist marine engineering company has used a 3D laser scanner to carry out a detailed survey of the engine room of a liquid natural gas (LNG) transporter ship, to determine the dimensions of its pre-ballast water system. [more]
Newcastle City Council has embarked on a project with Ordnance Survey to show how intricate 3D mapping of the city can help improve its sustainability. [more]
- 12/04/2012
The global impact of geographic information systems (GIS) in GPS technology and the construction industry has been examined in a major conference on the matter held by the UN. [more]
- 05/04/2012
The enhancement of GPS services in Europe through the development of the Galileo GNSS system is to be boosted by an additional €7 billion budget for works between 2014 and 2020. [more]
The Department of Fisheries in Western Australia is using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to asses the resources in the Abrolhos Islands, one of its key stock areas for the region’s A$400 million rock lobster industry. [more]
A 3D model of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, taken with a laser scanner, has allowed scientists to prove that the fearsome dinosaur had the most powerful bite of any creature known to have walked the Earth. [more]
Leica Geosystems has officially launched its brand-new iCON positioning and measuring system that offers construction professionals optimised construction workflow efficiency. [more]
Bristol City Council has carried out a comprehensive city-wide survey GPS aerial survey to assess rooftops and space that could be available for solar power generation. [more]
- 14/03/2012
The seminar programme for Geo-12, the UK’s only geospatial trade exhibition, has been released, providing a two-day programme of advanced sessions with a range of global experts. [more]
Forensic authorities in Costa Rica have been working with representatives from Leica Geosystems to integrate a Leica ScanStation C10 3D laser scanner into their portfolio of equipment for crime scene analysis. [more]
The latest in farming machine control technology is to be demonstrated by a rage of experts at Easton College in Norfolk this month, in an event entitled Soil, Water and Precision Management. [more]
Updated models of Leica Geosystems’ successful Digicat cable locators have been released, offering construction professionals even easier solutions for unearthing or avoiding subsurface infrastructure. [more]
Six counties on the Gulf of Mexico coast of the US state of Mississippi are pooling their resources to fund the first major GPS surveying and mapping project of the coastline, since it was redrawn during the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. [more]
- 21/02/2012
A GPS survey of the minaret on the top of the Taj Mahal in India has found that it has tilted by 3.57 centimetres in the last three decades. [more]
- 17/02/2012
Leica Geosystems will be among the range of construction and surveying specialists taking part next month in Ecobuild 2012, the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. [more]
Hot on the heels of the news that Leica Geosystems has secured a substantial contract with the Ordnance Survey, the company has now announced that its machine control devices have been picked by the company behind John Deere tractors, to be incorporated into their brand new range. [more]
- 10/02/2012
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveying (RICS) staged a major conference today on the progress being made in building information modelling (BIM). [more]
- 02/02/2012
The World Ag Expo – one of the top international trade events for the agricultural industry – has used a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to precisely map out and allocate its 2.6 million square feet of show grounds. [more]
- 31/01/2012
Leica Geosystems has sounded an international call for surveying, scanning and GPS experts to speak at the Hexagon 2012 conference being held in Las Vegas this June. [more]
- 30/01/2012
The devastating history of the Treblinka death camp in Poland has been explored to its highest level of detail yet, thanks to a combination of surveying methods, including GPS mapping, ground-penetrating radar and aerial photography. [more]
- 19/01/2012
Leica ScanStation C10s are proving popular with police departments and collision investigators across the globe, with investigators in the US state of Georgia making plans to add to their current set of scanners. [more]
Politicians in Lebanon are calling for urgent structural surveys of all the ageing buildings in the capital, Beirut, following the collapse of a seven-storey building on Sunday. [more]
The major engineering works on London's Blackfriars station and railway bridge have reached completion, following extensive track monitoring, allowing for the new station to be the first in London that spans the Thames. [more]
Leica Geosystems has confirmed that it has landed its largest ever order of its Leica ScanStation C10s, following this week's announcement of the government's £2.7 million pound investment to equip police forces with advanced surveying equipment. [more]
- 15/12/2011
Many councils and local authorities across the UK are bringing in innovative measures to make sure their roads and highways are properly gritted and cleared during wintry weather this year, including using GPS devices and surveying equipment to assess the worst affected areas and manage the gritting routes. [more]
The Welsh Assembly Government’s implementation of GPS and geospatial tools and geographic information in its processes, has been recognised with a prestigious award. [more]
Surveying technologists in France have demonstrated the new seamless integration of the Leica Builder surveying equipment with a pioneering new programme from German timber construction software specialists, SEMA. [more]
British researchers are taking an arsenal of surveying equipment to Antarctica to carry out a range of measurements aimed at assessing ice and rock conditions on the continent to find out about historic incidents of climate change. [more]
A group of British surveyors have undertaken a feasibility study for a major net irrigation project in Ethiopia, using a range of surveying equipment by Leica Geosystems. [more]
- 25/11/2011
3D surveying equipment is to be used to carry out a comprehensive survey of a major basin in the Norwegian Sea, to determine the geology and topography of the seabed. [more]
- 10/11/2011
Railway engineers working on a busy rail viaduct in York used total station measurements every step of the way to make sure of determining the subtle differences along every span of the structure. [more]
- 07/11/2011
The global draw and admiration for the surveying equipment made by Leica Geosystems has seen it land a new research and development (R&D) deal in one of the most lucrative economies and export markets in the world - China. [more]
Leica Geosystems Mining is working with Locata Corporation Pty Ltd to provide the only high precision radio positioning system in the world that does not rely on GPS. [more]
Leica Geosystems has entered into an exclusive partnership with robotic technology company, Autonomous Solutions Inc. (ASI), to create a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) independent remote and fully autonomous mine machine control solution for the global mining industry. [more]
School teachers in India have been learning about the most modern aspects of surveying, including geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing techniques, so that they in turn can incorporate use of the new technologies into the classes that they teach. [more]
The first satellites that will make up Galileo, Europe's own version of GPS, are to be launched into space tomorrow from the European spaceport in French Guyana. [more]
An international team of scientists and surveyors has been awarded £760,000 to carry out precise studies on the evolution of the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet over the last two decades. [more]
An unassuming bridge over the Rhine in Switzerland is the most comprehensively monitored bridge in the country, after engineers from the headquarters of Leica Geosystems were granted permission to use it as their test structure. [more]
- 11/10/2011
Britain's national map-makers have taken to Twitter to keep people permanently up to date with their constant tweaking of the master map of the UK. [more]
- 10/10/2011
Surveyors and specialist underwater archaeologists have used advanced surveying equipment to create a 3D reconstruction of an ancient, submerged Greek city, which was lost beneath the Aegean Sea some 3,000 years ago. [more]
- 07/10/2011
Leica Geosystems' ALS70-CM Airborne Laser Scanner is being used with the brand's RCD105 Digital Frame Camera on a surveying project to document and map remote urban and jungle environments in Africa. [more]
- 06/10/2011
Among the glut of new launches and updates announced by Leica Geosystems in the last week, has been the all-new xRTK and SmartRTK solutions for the Leica Viva GNSS system. [more]
A new generation of Leica Geosystems' advanced, onboard and handheld scanner control firmware will add even more to the High-Definition Surveying™ productivity and versatility of its ScanStation C10 and C5 laser scanners. [more]
- 21/09/2011
Major enhancements have been launched for Leica Geosystems' acclaimed airborne sensor workflow, Leica XPro. [more]
Engineers from Leica Geosystems are hosting an online forum next week to highlight to users of their surveying equipment how they can maximise their scan data collection. [more]
Heritage officials in Gloucester are calling in expert surveyors with the most advanced surveying equipment to assess where they need to begin with the restoration of a historic, landmark hotel in the city. [more]
A German measurement and surveying specialist has been awarded the 2011 Carl Pulfrich Award for his invention of a set of algorithms that have dramatically advanced modern airborne surveying and photography. [more]
Surveyors in India are carrying out RTK GPS surveys of vulnerable areas of the country's coast, to create digital maps that will be aimed at helping to both mitigate and measure the effects of tsunamis and cyclone storm surges. [more]
Technologists at Leica Geosystems in the US are carrying out extensive monitoring of its SmartNet reference stations in the wake of the earthquake that affected much of the East Coast earlier this month. [more]
Hexagon Metrology, the parent company of Leica Geosystems, has provided the integral technology for some of the largest-scale surveying equipment in Europe. [more]
- 15/08/2011
A recent GPS survey of the Beinn a’Chlaidheimh mountain in Scotland has found it to be 44cm short of being an official Munro - which is a collection of over 250 Scottish peaks reaching 3,000 feet or more. [more]
The mysterious makers of crop circles are using technology including GPS devices and laser scanners to create ever more complex and impressive designs. [more]
- 26/07/2011
An exhibit is being staged in London this week marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Rennie, the Scottish-born engineer and surveyor responsible for some of the most important engineering feats of the Industrial Revolution. [more]
- 25/07/2011
The civil surveying agencies in Macedonia and Croatia are to become partners in a regional project, which will establish a solid infrastructure of surveying data between the two countries. [more]
Leica Geosystems has provided crucial surveying equipment for a joint German-Mongolian surveying project, aimed at monitoring the increasing extraction of the Central Asian nation's rich mineral reserves. [more]
- 28/06/2011
In response to growing demand for survey equipment in North Carolina, Leica Geosystems has taken on a new state sales representative. [more]
Horticulturalists and engineers in Germany have turned to positioning surveying equipment provided by Leica Geosystems to help them create one of the country's biggest cornfield mazes. [more]
A new member has been added to the Leica Geosystems stable of Zeno GIS surveying equipment, in the form of the Leica Zeno GG02 plus. [more]
As part of Leica Geosystems' continuing efforts to enhance the capabilities of its surveying equipment, the company has launched a new assisted viewing system aimed at obtaining even better results from its Leica Viva GNSS and Leica Viva Total Stations. [more]
- 16/05/2011
Geospatial information from the US's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), has proved crucial to measuring and mitigating the effects of the recent double-disasters of the Mid West tornadoes and the flooding of the Mississippi. [more]
Detailed structural surveys are being carried out on centuries-old semaphore stations on the Irish coast, which once placed Ireland at the forefront of early communication technology. [more]
Professional surveyors and archaeologists in Scotland have made a series of videos aimed at showing amateur archaeologists how to make use of modern surveying equipment to record the country’s multitude of historic rural settlements. [more]
The city of Charleston in West Virginia is to begin mapping its sewers using specialist survey equipment, it has been revealed. [more]
- 03/05/2011
Leica Geosystems has unveiled a new cost-effective surveying equipment package, based around its popular Viva TS12 total station, that will give surveying professionals everything they need for data gathering and processing in a singular, powerful deal. [more]
- 20/04/2011
Teams of American surveyors and civil engineers have been sent to Japan to learn about the after effects of last month's devastating earthquake and tsunami. They are looking to plan a strategy for how the US might cope with a similarly catastrophic occurrence on their side of the Pacific Ocean. [more]
Switzerland's national meteorological agency has upgraded its system to employ new smart GPS receivers to give centimetre-level accuracy to the position of the national network of more than 1,100 weather sensors. [more]
A librarian in West Virginia is hoping that the awarding of GPS surveying equipment to her library will encourage people to take up 'geocaching' as a hobby and as an entertaining educational tool. [more]
Many Pacific Island countries are still relying on traditional methods of surveying and surveying equipment to keep track of some of the most variable land masses anywhere in the world. [more]
Representatives of a native New Zealand tribe have issued an ultimatum to the national Department of Conservation (DoC) over a geodetic measuring station that sits on top of the sacred Mount Manaia, on the North Island's Whangarei Peninsula. [more]
A new partnership between Leica Geosystems and mapping data specialist, emapsite, means that Leica surveying equipment now provides access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK maps, delivered directly to their workflows. [more]
- 15/03/2011
GPS monitoring stations in Japan will have to undergo comprehensive recalibration following the devastating earthquake on Friday, after measurements showed that the nation's coastline shifted by as much as 4 metres in the quake. [more]
- 07/03/2011
Opti-cal Survey Equipment will be one of the Platinum sponsors of the UK's top geomatics and GIS event, GEO-11. [more]
Leica Geosystems has launched a new improved set of agricultural guidance systems that allow farmers and agriculturalists to devise the optimum tracks for their machinery. [more]
- 25/02/2011
Leica Geosystems has integrated a new automatic reporting tool into its GeoMoS Web software that they claim will make the on-demand software service even more flexible. [more]
A leading expert on the software and technology of electronic surveying has said the evolution of surveying equipment is demanding a similar sort of evolution in skills from the surveyors who use it. [more]
A graduate student in North Dakota has seen the surveying data she gathered for her thesis on the flooding risk from a lake, incorporated into the national emergency plan for the state being put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [more]
Civil engineering students in Ireland are to train on new hi-tech land surveying equipment from Leica Geosystems, following a major investment by their university. [more]
The 3D modelling capabilities of Leica Geosystems scanning and surveying equipment has allowed for the complete renovation and modernising of a major US airport baggage system without any disruption to the constant flow of passengers. [more]
Contracts have been awarded for the critical geodetic resurveying of the New Zealand province of Canterbury, which saw all previous survey markers rendered pointless following last September's earthquake. [more]
Geospatial experts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) gathered last week with a number of senior international scientific and governmental officials to discuss the use and application of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in the Middle East. [more]
Representatives of the Japanese and United States' governments met last week to discuss enhancements to their current cooperation in the civil uses of their Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). [more]
- 21/12/2010
The recent GeoWorld 10 UK and Ireland Roadshow, hosted by precision surveying equipment brand, Leica Geosystems, drew a record number of delegates to its 11 shows, making it the largest geomatics event in the UK this year. [more]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US government has developed specialist software that will help keep GPS surveying equipment up-to-date with the shifting of tectonic plates in continental North America. [more]
Precision surveying equipment is just as important for internal, smaller-scale surveying projects as it is for ones in the great outdoors, as work on a historic German conference centre recently showed. [more]
A leading horticultural college in York has been using a Leica Builder Total Station to perfect the award-winning gardens it creates for competitions around the country. [more]
- 07/12/2010
Opti-cal has been listed on The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table, marking its remarkable sales growth over the last three years. [more]
Equipment provided by Leica Geosystems has been integral to the comprehensive 3D surveying of Istanbul, which was mandated as part of its cultural preservation by UNESCO. [more]
- 29/11/2010
The increased accessibility of GPS and GNSS equipment means that up to 13 amateur surveyors per square kilometre are contributing to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, according to one of the project’s key developers. [more]
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) - which is overseeing the creation of a European equivalent to the USA's GPS satellite navigation system - has predicted that the demand for GNSS will be worth €165 billion by 2020. [more]
- 09/11/2010
A deal has been struck between Leica Geosystems and Swedish government-run GNSS network provider, Swepos, that will enable the exchange of GNSS raw data. [more]
- 20/10/2010
An Irish geotechnical surveyor was nearly sunk by his surveying equipment after the marsh he was surveying proved deceptively unstable. [more]
- 13/10/2010
An iPhone app that brings the capabilities of a theodolite to the palm of your hand has become one of the most downloaded apps on iTunes. [more]
A California police department has invested in precision surveying equipment in order to survey and scan any buildings that could be at risk of foreign or domestic terrorism. [more]
A new means of surveying and designing open-cast mining operations has been developed in Namibia and is now being implemented across the globe. [more]
A confusing case of miscalibration of surveying equipment in America has lead one experienced surveyor to emphasise the importance of manual checking of all components of a surveying system before starting work. [more]
- 30/09/2010
Mapping and surveying technicians in the US have used backing from the military to develop a portable indoor mapping system that can be carried around and operated in a backpack system. [more]
- 27/09/2010
Leica Geosystems has expanded its global reach by inking a deal that will see it involved in the setting up of laser-guided operator-independent truck dispatch systems (OITDS) at the eleven mines owned by Coal India (CIL). [more]
Laser and radar surveying equipment is being used to analyse the habitats and behaviour of a variety of species of British bat. [more]
Precise tree-top surveying has been integral to the design and construction of the Eden Project's new Rainforest Lookout. [more]
Leica Geosystems equipment, which has been integral to the construction of many of the world's tallest buildings, is now being used on perhaps the most iconic building project in the world today – the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in New York. [more]
Thieves have derailed the Canadian work of an international housing charity by successfully targeting the precision surveying equipment being used in one of their current projects. [more]
- 31/08/2010
A new generation of industrial theodolites from the leading metrology brand, Leica Geosystems, is aiming to enhance the capabilities of aerospace applications in both civilan and military environments. [more]
- 26/08/2010
The natural resource-rich Barnett Shale gas field near Fort Worth, Texas, has been carefully surveyed in a joint project between Leica Geosystems and Geomaic Resources LLC. [more]
- 18/08/2010
Glaciologists are using advanced precision surveying equipment to gauge the true size of a giant iceberg that broke off a glacier in Greenland last week. [more]
- 17/08/2010
The latest models from leading cable and pipe locator specialist Radiodetection, deliver ease of use, accuracy and reliability while combining them with several groundbreaking features that deliver accurate, reliable and repeatable measurements [more]
- 30/07/2010
Surveying the natural world is being made easier with the launch of a new piece of software specifically for the surveying of trees. [more]
- 23/07/2010
Laser surveying equipment is being used on the half-complete repair work on a Cumbrian road bridge that was destroyed in last November's devastating floods. [more]
A GPS generated system of sub-surface maps, which will gauge why and how certain towns are susceptible to flooding, is gradually being drawn up to cover the whole of the US state of New Hampshire. [more]
A permanent exhibit is being opened in Austria to highlight the importance of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and emphasise the role of satellite navigation technology serving millions of citizens around the globe. [more]
Scotland's five UNESCO heritage sites are among ten of the country's most important locations that will be the subjects of minute and comprehensive laser modeling surveys. [more]
Laser surveying professionals from across the world will be flocking to Florida this October, after Leica announced that its Annual Airborne Sensor User Conference will take place in Orlando on October 25th to 27th. [more]
- 25/06/2010
GPS surveying equipment has officially measured one of the most challenging peaks in Wales at over 3,000 feet. [more]
- 16/06/2010
The boundary surveying capabilities of Leica's Viva GNSS receivers have proven their abilities in even the most inhospitable of conditions, after they were successfully used to survey a historic snow-bound North American trail. [more]
- 15/06/2010
Part of one of North America's most important engineering achievements, the Hoover Dam, is to be minutely modeled using high-definition surveying technology from Leica Geosystems. [more]
- 11/06/2010
Leica's latest distance meter has been kitted out to make it just about the most robust piece of measuring equipment around. [more]
- 04/06/2010
A leading quantity surveying firm has issued an unforeseen profit warning, as it prepares for the effect the stringent tightening of government purse-strings will have on its public sector contracts. [more]
Opti-cal Survey Equipment Ltd was represented by two of its directors at the prestigious Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track 100 ceremony in London this month. [more]
- 11/05/2010
Planners in Gloucestershire have begun work on a comprehensive GPS mapping of the county's drainage system. [more]
- 10/05/2010
Bauma 2010, the triennial international trade show for construction and surveying equipment, thrived in the face of chaotic disruption from the Icelandic volcano. [more]
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