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e-newsletter   Vol.6 Issue 4: June 2011
 

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Heroes@Work
Photo contest for Leica Geosystems calendar 2012
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From the field

  Lead Pencil Studio: Looking at Nothing
Sensory perception, and its limitations, play a large role in Looking at Nothing, a recent and ongoing project for which they have examined a variety of public spaces in Rome and New York using LIDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging. This sophisticated laser scanning technology emits millions of laser pulses that measure the distance between the scanner and everything solid before it, from stone walls to chipping paint.
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  Drainage on the Money: A GPS saves time for this drainage contractor
Since 1975, the folks at Agrodrain Systems Ltd. have been installing drainage pipe in the farmland of eastern Ontario and western Quebec, in Canada. The company installs hundreds of miles of pipe each year over thousands of acres, and Agrodrain president John Wielgut wants to keep the drainage plow moving.
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  Preserving Auburn's Roots: A progressive surveying firm helps a university town overcome a destructive act of revenge
The Auburn-Alabama intrastate football rivalry is ranked by ESPN as one of the 10 most intense rivalries in all of sports, right up there with Frazier-Ali and Yankees-Red Sox.
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  Stay in Control - Pushing a Digital Sensor to the Limit
How much control is needed using the ADS80/SH82 digital sensor to achieve geometric accuracies for a 50-scale mapping project with 1-foot contours? That was the question driving a recent mapping project in Burlington, Iowa.
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  Leica Geosystems Expands North Carolina Commitment
Leica Geosystems responds to increasing demand in North Carolina by appointing a direct sales representative and establishing an authorized service and repair facility.
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  Optron-Geofix Appointed Leica Geosystems Construction Positioning Dealer for Southern Quebec
Optron-Geofix, a construction and land surveying equipment dealer, has been appointed as a Leica Geosystems dealer for GPS, robotics, and total stations in Southern Quebec.
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  New Leica ScanStation C5: Scalable, Entry-level Laser Scanner
Leica Geosystems has announced today at the Hexagon 2011 Conference the new Leica ScanStation C5 Laser Scanner for fast, complete as-built and engineering surveys. The compact, scalable Leica ScanStation C5 provides professionals with a combination of legendary Leica Geosystems quality scan data with a significantly lower cost of scanner ownership.
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  Revolutionary: The new Leica 3D Disto: Measure – Project – Record
Old buildings? No documentation? Irregular walls? Details to locate? Inaccessible points to measure? No need to worry: the Leica 3D Disto measures it all. Simply aim the 3D Disto, press a button and the Leica 3D Disto determines the precise 3-dimensional position of the point.
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  Azimut Inc. Appointed Leica Geosystems GIS Dealer for Quebec and Eastern Canada
Groupe de géomatique Azimut inc., a Canadian consultancy specializing in GIS applications for municipal clients, has been appointed as a Leica Geosystems dealer for GIS-related products in Quebec and Eastern Canada.
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  Colorado Machinery Appointed Leica Geosystems Machine Control Dealer for Colorado
Colorado Machinery, which has been serving the construction industry in Colorado for over 40 years, has been appointed as a dealer for Leica Geosystems’ line of machine control products.
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  Titan Machinery Appointed Leica Geosystems Machine Control Dealer for Montana and Wyoming
Titan Machinery, a construction and agricultural equipment dealer, has been appointed as a Leica Geosystems dealer for machine control products in Montana and Wyoming.
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