Hardware

Headwall Photonics has announced that its Micro-Hyperspec imaging sensor is being successfully deployed aboard very small commercial UAVs to help agriculturalists and researchers monitor vegetation over wide areas. Accurate spectral scenes of farmlands and crop fields can now be quickly rendered using this technology. Detailed crop-health information can be gathered by placing these miniaturized hyperspectral imagers on long-duration commercial UAVs, which crisscross farmland to yield a mosaic of data-rich images. Read More

Spirent Communications today announced the launch of its new automation and reporting tool, TestDrive-GNSS for SimGEN and SimREPLAYplus controlled GNSS test systems. TestDrive-GNSS automates the testing process to significantly reduce overhead costs and testing times associated with characterization of GNSS devices.

Topcon Positioning Systems has released the X-22, a 2D wireless indicate system for excavators, said to be the most advanced in its price bracket and which eliminates the need for cables, and can be quickly and easily transferred between multiple machines.

Clients who need regular water sampling will be pleased to learn that SESL has invested in its first automated water sampler. The Global Water WS700 sampler is a set-and-forget device that looks like a Globite suitcase and can be set up in the open or indoors to collect regular water samples for later analysis.