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e-newsletter   Vol.5 Issue 8: August 2010
 

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Leica Viva's Proven Performance Gives You a Competitive Edge
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From the field

  3D Laser Scanning and Surveying Collide
An architectural firm called on LandAir Surveying surveyors to scan downtown Cobb County in the area of a proposed courthouse, create a 3D model and then incorporate the new courthouse design into the model as part of a bidding process. After a demonstration of laser scanning at a SPAR conference and another by a Leica Geosystems representative, LandAir Surveying bought the Leica 3000 scanner in 2005. Today the firm uses the HDS6100, HDS6000 and the ScanStation II scanners.
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  Technology + professionalism + an extraction boom = expansion despite tough times.
The Barnett Shale is a geological formation that may contain the United States’ largest producible reserves of natural gas—up to 30 trillion cubic feet. But the gas is difficult to extract for two reasons: It’s a “tight” formation with very hard shale that complicates drilling, and much of the Barnett Shale lies beneath Fort Worth, Texas, one of the largest metro areas in the United States.
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  Surveying in 3D - A next-generation scanner helps Loy Surveys stay on the cutting edge
Loy Surveys was tasked with surveying three cooling towers at the refinery to identify any movement, shape change or deformation in the tower structures. Previously, this work had been carried out by other firms using total stations to survey points at set heights along a number of meridians around each tower—a risky and labor-intensive job that can take two or more days per tower. Scanning seemed like an ideal fit.
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  Georgia archaeologists find Confederate POW camp
Preserved for nearly 150 years, perhaps by its own obscurity, a short-lived Confederate prison camp began yielding treasures from the Civil War almost as soon as archeologists began searching for it in southeastern Georgia. They found a corroded bronze buckle used to fasten tourniquets during amputations, a makeshift tobacco pipe with teeth marks in the stem, and a picture frame folded and kept after the daguerreotype it held was lost.
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Upcoming Events
Intergraph
August 30 - September 2, 2010
Nashville, TN, USA
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HDS User Meeting
September 7, 2010
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
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ION - Institute of Navigation
September 22 - 24, 2010
Portland, OR, USA
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IHEEP - Int. Highway Engineering Exchange Program
Sep 26-30
Dearborn, MI, USA
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2010 HDS Worldwide User Conference
October 25 - 27, 2010
San Ramon, CA, USA
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18th Annual Leica Geosystems Airborne Sensor User Conference
October 25-27, 2010
Orlando, FL, USA
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Leica Geosystems releases Leica PowerDigger Lite, its new entry-level single- slope guidance system for all types of excavators. PowerDigger Lite is easy to use, economical, and answers the needs of contractors looking for an entry level machine control system.
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  Leica Viva Succeeds in Competitive Gasfield Surveying
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