Frontier Precision and Industry News
WHAT’S NEW IN FIELDSEEKER GIS MOBILE SOFWARE FALL 2019 RELEASE
Our November 2019 release of the FieldSeeker cross-platform mobile app (CPMA) is the biggest update yet! Many of the changes are “under the hood” to make the app more maintainable, more responsive, and easier to enhance. Since first developing the app and releasing...
New Release – FieldSeeker Windows ULV Adulticiding Software v1.8
We love releasing updates that include customer enhancement requests. Our v1.8 release includes a significant expansion to the warning information system that provides the flexibility to warn and inform your drivers of pretty much anything based on proximity to...
Act Now for 2019 Tax Savings
Buy or lease the equipment you need now for big savings on your 2019 taxes! The Section 179 tax provision allows businesses to deduct the full cost of qualifying equipment and software purchased or leased by the end of the year.Most small and medium-sized...
S-Series Service Warning
Have you seen the message indicating that your total station is due for servicing? A lot of times we are asked what this message means, and what should be done when this message appears. This message will come up as a reminder for your S-Series instrument after 3000...
What’s New in FieldSeeker GIS Office Sofware Fall 2019 Release
Our Fall 2019 release of FieldSeeker Office includes many improvements suggested by customers, including map editing tools for managing larviciding field sites, new reports and updates to existing reports, and quality improvements especially in Lab Tools. We...
TBC Power Hour: Introducing the Trimble X7 Scanning Solution
Trimble Business Center 5.20 which is soon to be available, seamlessly supports the new Trimble X7 data through image-based station views, CAD and drafting tools, point cloud registration, classification, extraction routines and more! Please join us for a webinar on...
SX10 Topographic Scanning Tutorial: Field to Finish
Often we get asked how to utilize SX10 scan data in TBC and Civil 3D for topographic surveying. Our friends at Trimble have put together an informative series of tutorials to help demonstrate this process. This tutorial video series demonstrates a topographic workflow...
Automatic Water Sampler Comparison
An automatic water sampler is essentially an intelligent pump that takes water from a source and deposits it into one or many bottles. Samplers can do this based on time, flow or some other externally measured parameter(s) such as rainfall, water quality, etc. An...
Minnesota & Wisconsin County-based GEOID18 Models Available
The local county-based GEOID18 models are now available for Minnesota and Wisconsin for use with County Coordinate Systems. They can be downloaded from the Trimble website HERE under the GEOID18 link. Below is a document to assist with the process of downloading and...
Support Bulletin – Geoid 18
Most of us are now aware of the release of Geoid 18 from NGS. OPUS is now providing Geoid 18 solutions, so a model for us to be able to use in our Trimble software is needed. Below is a support bulletin from Trimble outlining the now available download in the GGF...
Webinar Recording – Advancements in Site Vision & Trimble Catalyst
Here is the recording from our September 16th webinar on the latest advancements on Trimble Site Vision and Trimble Catalyst. Here is a link to the PowerPoint presentation and also a link to our online store. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to...
Mean Sea Level Elevation Data Using Esri’s Collector App
With the availability of receivers like Trimble's R2 that can be used for high-accuracy data collection in 3rd party apps, many users want to collect vertical data in Esri's Collector. However, Collector, as of today, only collects data in Height Above Ellipsoid...
What’s New in FieldSeeker Windows ULV v1.7
We’re excited to release a new version of FieldSeeker Windows ULV that has a couple of important new features and a variety of quality improvements. The main things in this version are support for metric units, color changes for consistency with Frontier’s...
Using the GIS Module for Trimble Business Center
In my latest tech talk, I collaborated with Troy Hernandez from our survey support team. With our combined expertise on GIS and Trimble Business Center, this video demonstrates how to transfer data from Trimble Access and TerraSync to a file geodatabase through the...
Comparing mapping hardware and mobile apps
For those of you looking to collect data with phones or tablets, check out our mobile app comparison. While all these apps have the standard mapping capabilities, each one has it's own functionalities that make them unique. Find the one that best fits your workflow....
Trimble Dini Level Loop & Adjustment in TBC
In this video we show how to run a simple closed loop level run, including side shots, with the Trimble Dini level. We demonstrate how to collect the data in the field, how to transfer to your computer and how to import the data file in to Trimble Business Center. We...
Frontier Precision featured in The American Surveyor Publication
YellowScan Signs a New Distributor in the United States July 25th, Montpellier, France – YellowScan, a market leader for UAV LiDAR Solutions, is excited to announce a new distribution partnership with Frontier Precision, a company that has been dedicated to...
Connecting with the Public Through Email Notifications
Last year, Frontier Precision had the opportunity to work with Central Massachusetts Mosquito Control Project (CMMCP) to implement an email notification system for people who enter a service request for truck spraying. This email notification project was added on to...