Well, It is midnight and I am nearly dead tired. But I wanted to share my initial thoughts on InterGEO and some pictures.
Beerleg Event: So far I have not found another person from the forum, however I spent 20 minutes with Dr. Ashjae (Javad) and tomorrow I am going to have him make a post here (so he will be a new member), then I will try to get him to have a beer with me. A bit constructed, but a Beerleg Event non-the-less. Michael Glutting is here of course, I think he might consent to having a picture taken with a beer on the table also.
Picures: [ Checkout my blog ] If you click on the pictures, you will get bigger images. Sorry, I just dumped them online.
Thoughts: Wow, every single company you have ever thought about is here. And it is GO BIG or GO HOME. The number of UAV's is INSANE. Completely insane. I mean bat-turds-crazy. Big ones small ones, GIANT ones as big as my pickup truck with gas engines.
There are a pile of Pix4D like companies. There are a lot of lidar platforms. There are a lot of people. I have seen a lot of friends that I have not seen for many years.
There are ton of new players. And old players too. SatLab has a GIANT booth. Javad has a giant booth. The consolidated UniStrong/Hemisphere/Stonex has two giant booths. The Trimble / Spectra Precision booth is huge (I am going to run out of words that describe crazy big, sorry.)
The UAV RTK new guys 'Swift Navigation' have small booth and released a new L1/L2 $600 RTK board. Very small, very light. They have poached a few GNSS engineers from the big guys and might make a big wave. Theoretically this would drop the price of the GNSS engine from ~$2000 to $600 which might might make $1200 network rovers possible.
There are a lot of Chinese companies selling monitoring mirrors and RTK. A lot (and consider the source on this.)
The Beer here is of most excellent quality. Much of the food has been amazing.
Anyway, it is way past my bed time and need to be up at 6:00 am to workout.
For Jimmy C's drop box files:
I wanted to come, but I did not have 2k extra, and I was not willing to have the wife kill me when I got home!! 🙂
How times have changed.
In days past, you'd step outside, set-up the TS, GPS, etc and all competitors could have their little space and amply show the world how their devices work.
But those flying machines. The mind boggles if they all romped out onto the playing field and let them loose. You use the word INSANE.........
That would be a display worth visiting.
I wonder if they'd trade my T1 and the 100 link chain?:yum:
Sounds depressing....to me at least.
Looks like the end of land surveying as many of us has known it to be.
I realized a few years back that UAV surveying and mapping was the next wave and it would be a big one. Just too many applications suited to it.
And the Chinese getting ready to take over the GPS/RTK market. Well doggy!
I guess there will be a price drop and maybe availability at Walmart too.
Let me reign in my cynicism for a second
Anyone have a booth with any new shovel designs?
I'm thinking about going cordless on my next chainsaw. The Stihl one. Tired of oil/gas reliance.
Anyway...looks like a very interesting and pleas give more updates if you have the time.
Enjoy your warm beer.
I would love to go! I look forward to seeing the pics!
beuckie, post: 394845, member: 2245 wrote: Mark,
Found this picture on the blog.
What's the purpose?
Greetings
I believe that there is no backsight required.
It is from a local (Hamburg) service provider
Cool pictures, Mark. I went to Intergeo about 10 years ago, and I was astounded at the size of it, being used to going to ACSM conferences here in the US. And that was before UAS, so there was no big breakthrough product. I need to go back again, maybe next year.
Enjoy.
Read an article in Yahoo recently where some people who explore old mineral mines had come across giant 25' concrete Xs out in the middle of the desert.
They did some research and found there was an entire system of them on a mile square grid, used for calibrating the original Corona satellite.What a contrast!
Cool pictures! Thx.
Salesman A to Salesman B: "It's been 9 minutes, do you think we should we wake him?
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I saw that and wondered why two Sokkia GPS units were mounted on a Leica Robot & Imaging Station.
Robert Hill, post: 394820, member: 378 wrote: Sounds depressing....to me at least.
Looks like the end of land surveying as many of us has known it to be.
FWIW - It's a technology tradeshow on a continent where the vast majority of the cadaster bears no resemblance to that in the United States.
It's a GIS-mapping-measuring event, not really "land surveying" as we see it here. And the K̦lsch was ice cold the year I was at InterGEO in Cologne.
James Fleming, post: 394985, member: 136 wrote:
It's a GIS-mapping-measuring event, not really "land surveying" as we see it here. And the K̦lsch was ice cold the year I was at InterGEO in Cologne.
I'm glad that I only have to stroll a few blocks to get a cold and fresh one.
http://covingtonbrewhouse.com/beer/kolsch/
Now it looks like I can get Red Beans/rice, BBQ, and or Gyros on certain days.
A Harris, post: 394973, member: 81 wrote: [USER=2245]@beuckie[/USER]
I saw that and wondered why two Sokkia GPS units were mounted on a Leica Robot & Imaging Station.
Actually the Sokia Bullets were mounted on a Leica Robot which was mounted on automatic level plate mounted on a 4-wheeler! 
I went back and asked, but don't understand the concept well enough to relay. I believe that they were selling services and this is an example of an innovative collection technique that they have used in the past.
The kids speak perfect english, but I could not cut through the salesman BS to get to the purpose.
Looks like a disaster in a corn field.
Mark Silver, post: 395349, member: 1087 wrote: Actually the Sokia Bullets were mounted on a Leica Robot which was mounted on automatic level plate mounted on a 4-wheeler!
I went back and asked, but don't understand the concept well enough to relay. I believe that they were selling services and this is an example of an innovative collection technique that they have used in the past.
The kids speak perfect english, but I could not cut through the salesman BS to get to the purpose.
Has anyone every used that Geomax scanner? Look very outdated on the spec sheet. Am i missing something?
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I have to admit there is a lot going on with that ATV setup.
It would be nice to have the ability to drive to a convenient spot and flip a switch and be locked in and locate everything in site by various means.
More technology strapped on there at the same time than I've ever used on one job.
One or more of that would be hung up in the brush simply attempting to leave my yard.
"If you can't dazzle them with Brilliance, outwit them with Bullshit"
W. C. Fields
