Articles by Jim Warner

Glaciologists are to use pioneering surveying equipment to take millimetre-precise measurements of the enormous Jakobshavns Isbrae glacier in Greenland. [more]

Engineer and scientists in the United States are currently testing a new tsunami warning system that uses GPS to help speed up the gathering and transfer of information on earthquakes and potential tsunamis. [more]

Chocolate company Hershey has announced plans to use GPS surveys and mapping to provide precise measurements of cocoa farms. [more]

Laser scanning has proven crucial to rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts in the wake of disasters such a last year’s tsunami in Japan, but one expert in disaster surveying said that it has also raised some imperative safety issues as well. [more]

Northern Ireland’s finance minister has hailed the use of advanced surveying technology to deliver vast improvements to the work of mapping surveyors. [more]

Engineers, surveyors and architects are expected to turn out in droves for the forthcoming building information modelling trade show, BIM Show Live 2012, when it takes place in London in May. [more]

Google has combined the technology of GPS locators, laser cameras and radar scanners to create a pioneering self-driving car. [more]

Farmers throughout the UK are turning to GPS-based surveying and excavating equipment to ensure that their drainage systems are set out in the most efficient way possible to weather the impending drought. [more]

The Public Services Department on the Channel Island of Guernsey has been giving details of the GPS and machine control systems they will be using to ensure that the Airport 2040 works cause as little public disruption as possible. [more]

Laser-based surveying equipment has allowed a team of archaeologists to uncover brand new minute details of ancient Mexican civilisations, according to the group’s leader. [more]

A team of international surveyors are to use theodolites and GPS tracking systems to carry out both water- and land-based surveys of some of the world’s most endangered whales. [more]

Surveying professionals now have the option of carrying some of their basic surveying equipment in the palms of their hands, with the launch of a rugged mobile phone that comes complete with an in-built theodolite. [more]

A stone sculptor in New Mexico has illustrated how 3D laser scanning equipment has helped revolutionise his creative process, particularly regarding works that need to be replicated multiple times. [more]

The latest version of the Leica GeoMoS Web internet-based monitoring data visualisation and analysis service now provides users with advanced capabilities that they can access on PDA, smartphones and tablet devices. [more]

Leica Geosystems is to unveil its newest advances in its construction positioning and machine control technology at the World of Concrete 2012 trade fair in the US this month, prior to rolling them out around the world. [more]

The Government has announced a new tranche of funding, amounting to £2.7 million, to allow police forces across England to buy 3D laser surveying equipment to aid with the assessment and clear up of traffic collisions. [more]

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) has found that a majority of firms in the global geospatial sector are currently hiring for surveyors and technology experts. [more]

GPS developers in the US are currently piecing together the next generation of global positioning satellites, which will bring the accuracy of GPS receivers down from ten feet to three feet. [more]

More surveyors across the UK reported an increase in new buyer enquiries in November than reported a decrease, according to new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). [more]

The European Space Agency has said that the first two satellites in the Galileo constellation are now well into their early orbit preparation phase, following their launch last month. [more]

Children with their sights set on potential careers in architecture, engineering and professional construction are to benefit from a new initiative aimed at teaching them about the technology and techniques used every day in these careers. [more]

Geological, engineering and surveying experts in Wales are to stage a crucial meeting to devise a new plan for surveying and monitoring coastal locations that could potentially be at risk from landslides and coastal erosion. [more]

The long-range Bluetooth capabilities of Leica Geosystems' surveying equipment is to be further enhanced thanks to a new deal with wireless solutions provider connectBlue. [more]

The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) now has its own GNSS reference station network, BiHPOS, using the technology and ongoing contributions of Leica Geosystems. [more]

Leica Geosystems is to join some of the top global names in GPS mapping and surveying services, when it supports the London Mapping Festival (LMF) 2011-2012, scheduled to kick off with the Mapping Showcase 2011 on December 1. [more]

Britain has been hailed by Leica Geosystems as being the pioneering nation for the creation of a commercial GPS network solution. [more]

Solar panel installations on domestic rooftops are being constructed to the maximum possible area and giving the greatest efficiency, thanks to the capabilities of the Leica Builder Total Station. [more]

The Leica GRX1200 reference station receiver is being used on three linked and concurrent - but multidisciplinary - surveying projects in Switzerland, highlighting how the device can be used to measure a range of different areas of research. [more]

A leading authority on town planning and infrastructure software has said that building information modelling (BIM) will be key to building the infrastructure of the cities of the future, and that surveying equipment like that produced by Leica Geosystems will be crucial to the process. [more]

A new sea-surveying project is aiming to develop technology that will help provide more detailed information on environmental conditions in advance of building work on offshore operations, such as wind turbines. [more]

Leica Geosystems will be among more than 500 surveying and land management companies participating in INTERGEO, is the world's largest platform for geodesy and geoinformation, being held in Germany at the end of this month. [more]

The group of GPS surveyors who have made it their mission to accurately document the heights of every summit in the UK are today celebrating ten years since they began their undertaking. [more]

Leica Geosystems is to embark on a national tour of the UK and Ireland next month, to take its latest technology out to the people who are most likely to use it. [more]

The glaciers of Greenland are undergoing increasing amounts of precision surveying with high-tech GPS equipment, as international teams of glaciologists race to measure how much the Arctic island's melting ice is affecting the global environment. [more]

Laser-guided navigation systems are increasingly being used in warehouse operations across the country, to guide machinery through industrial aisles and corridors. [more]

Russia's own equivalent to the US-backed GPS positioning technology has received a major boost, after gaining the backing of Finnish mobile phone giant, Nokia. [more]

A GPS survey to determine the classifications of some of Scotland's hills still has not produced a definitive answer on one particularly taxing one. [more]

Primary school pupils in the Midlands have been shown the basic ropes of how various pieces of surveying equipment are put to use on building sites. [more]

Russian authorities have put forward a proposal that all commercial auto transport involved in carrying more than eight passengers or particularly heavy loads, be equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) receiver. [more]

The deadline is approaching for registration for the sixth annual meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), which will take place in Tokyo, Japan on 5-9 September. [more]

New guidelines have been issued by the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) to govern how global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and satellite-reliant surveying equipment can be used in the worldwide oil and gas industry. [more]

Geology students in Switzerland have used a Leica Geosystems HDS4400 long-range scanner to help them play a crucial role in the monitoring and surveying of the movement of a major Alpine rock glacier. [more]

GPS surveying equipment is being used to pinpoint fly-tipping hotspots in the south and west Wales countryside. [more]

Leica Geosystems has launched its new 3D Disto. [more]

Map makers across the UK are to gather in Macclesfield this week to explore the growing opportunities that ever-more-modern surveying equipment and techniques are allowing them. [more]

Final works are underway to ensure that South Cariboo Regional Airport gets NAV Canada approval for its new GPS approach for aircraft. [more]

Leica Geosystems has made a call for submissions for photographs to feature on is calendar for 2012, asking for pictures that demonstrate their surveying equipment being put to work. [more]

GPS tracking and surveying equipment that will measure the winners of the sailing events at the London 2012 Olympic games is to undergo comprehensive testing in Weymouth this summer. [more]

The 2011 Carl Pulfrich Award - which is being sponsored by the newly founded Hexagon Geosystems Geospatial Solutions Division (GSD) – is now open for nominations. [more]

Surveyors and engineers are carrying out delicate but urgent repair work on a stretch of the M1 motorway near London after it was badly damaged in a fire at an adjacent scrap metal yard. [more]

A Kenyan surveyor who specialises in the use of GIS surveying equipment has said he managed to diffuse a potentially violent land dispute through the use of a simple GPS device. [more]

Geographic information systems (GIS) students at a college in Utah have been developing a new means of carrying out low-level ground-controlled topographic surveys using total stations and a blimp-mounted camera. [more]

Russian scientists and explorers are testing the satellite navigation they have developed to challenge the dominant US global positioning system (GPS) by trying to drive from their Arctic shore, over the North Pole, to Canada. [more]

Leica Geosystems has launched its new GPS Augmentation Network, which ensures comprehensive positioning coverage even in the most challenging mining and excavating situations. [more]

A Georgia-based archaeologist is using GPS surveying equipment to track down lost artefacts from the American Civil War before they are lost to development. [more]

A 2D slope cutting guidance system from Leica Geosystems has been found to be capable of improving the productivity of an excavator by 30 per cent when carrying out precise cutting procedures. [more]

An ongoing project is using GPS surveying equipment to try to determine, once and for all, the exact location of a section of the border between North and South Carolina in the USA. [more]

A mission of Christian construction surveyors have volunteered their surveying expertise to help design and construct a further education centre and college in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world. [more]

When leading Swiss telecommunications company, Swisscom AG, required a new system of GNSS surveying equipment to undertake detailed surveying on their national communications network, it did not take them long to settle on Leica Viva GNSS. [more]

Coal India Limited (CIL) has signed a deal with Leica Geosystems that will see the precision surveying instrument company provide Jigsaw360 fleet management systems for 500 mining machines over seven CIL sites. [more]

A building surveyor from Southport has been asked, by BBC1, to help it identify rogue roofing firms. [more]

An international workshop is being held in Melbourne, Australia to look at the practicalities involved in multi-GNSS, the practice of using more than one global navigation satellite system (GNSS) network to gain a satellite location signal. [more]

A micro-technology competition in Japan will aim to succeed in testing the surveying and navigation capabilities of GPS equipment to more precise levels than it ever has before, when it takes place later this month. [more]

Recent advancements in GP navigation systems mean it is now almost impossible for someone to find themselves well and truly lost in the British Isles, a leading outdoor pursuits expert has claimed. [more]

A complex networking of Leica technology has been used to perfect a $23 million comprehensive highway restoration programme in the US state of Missouri. [more]

The UK’s most comprehensive, independent location and geographic information conference has ended its 2010 event with many organisations already pledging their support for next year's event. [more]

The US Coast Guard has commissioned a detailed GPS survey of a glacier in Greenland, in the hope of locating the wreckage of World War II rescue plane before it melts into the sea. [more]

War zone crime scene investigators are using specialist equipment designed for construction surveying purposes to assess the aftermath of explosions. [more]

The value and benefits of GPS technology has massively outweighed the cost to the taxpayer of establishing it, a leading US GPS expert has said. [more]

The SpiderWeb software programme that keeps Leica's reference stations at the very top of the market has recently undergone further updating. [more]

Digital Surveys, a surveying firm based in Gateshead, has spent some £100,000 investing in hi-tech laser equipment in order to be able work on new projects as a result of the economic downturn. [more]

A leading engineering software specialist has said the combining of laser surveying techniques with building information modelling (BIM) has a long future of continued innovation and discovery ahead of it, providing the accompanying business models keep up with the pace. [more]

Leica Geosystems has partnered with the chartered land surveyors of the French Départment of Haute-Savoie to carry out the latest biennial measurement of the tallest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc. [more]

A US researcher has used laser and GPS technology to compile the first detailed global map of forest height. [more]

Accredited surveyors have welcomed 760 new members to their ranks, after they successfully completed their Assessment of Professional Competence with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). [more]

A row has erupted in Australia over a laser mapping project of the country's most important agricultural area. [more]

With the increase of GPS devices in mobile phones, it is becoming significantly easier for people's exact geographic location to be pinpointed. [more]

Sports broadcaster ESPN has turned to technology traditionally used in road surveying to help it give the perfect coverage of the upcoming British Open golf championship. [more]

The parent company of Leica Geosystems has added to its geospatial measuring capabilities with the purchase of another leading company of metrology specialists. [more]

A brand new reference station from leading surveying technologists, Leica, is making a claim to be the most efficient and versatile instrument of its kind. [more]

A world authority in technical environmental construction and surveying has been appointed the eleventh chairman of the Construction Industry Council (CIC). [more]

GPS and laser technology has permitted an American oil and gas drilling company to create a pioneering new system to survey the details of bore holes. [more]

The Swiss-Swedish engineering company, ABB Ltd, has announced it is to take over the American precision measuring company, K-TEK, in the latest move in its recent buying spree. [more]

A local authority in the north of England is using the latest GPS surveying equipment to recalibrate all its road signs and traffic rules. [more]

A leading engineering consultant has said it is imperative for today's surveyors and engineers to keep up to speed with the rapid advance in modern equipment. [more]

The last stadium in the Canadian Football League to convert its pitch to artificial grass has done so with the crucial help of Leica Geosystem's precision surveying equipment. [more]

New firmware and software enhancements to Leica's ScanStation C10 laser scanner will provide even more precision and versatility for topographic and as-built surveys. [more]