Innovation

European funding fast-tracks drone based geotechnical investigations

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Working in partnership with Skytem, SDU and NGI over the next 30 months, the firm will develop airborne geoscanning by drone. The project will integrate high-resolution ground investigation workflow consisting of a geoscanning system carried by a UAV and machine learning-based data integration with drastically reduced invasive sampling programme. Emerald…

Terrafirma adds coastal hazards risk to its Ground Report

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Designed for use by conveyancers, homebuyers and lenders, the report will also include in-house expertise from geologists, scientists and mining engineers. The report will include data on sea defences, shoreline management, local geology, landslides, sea level rise, coastal flooding, terrain, land use and erosion. Terrafirma’s team of geologists have aggreged…

MGISS reveals underground highway assets for Sir Robert McAlpine

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MGISS is working alongside SRM to design and implement new workflows as well as converting and updating historical data to populate SRM’s works management database for the A19 trunk road scheme. This will improve operational efficiency and overall safety as part of an asset mapping system that can be accessed…

Bentley’s cloud platform eases geotechnical information management

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OpenGround Cloud forms a solution for planning, data entry, borehole log production, lab data management, reporting and visualisation. The platform’s aim is to improve collaboration across multidisciplinary project teams and increase the value of geotechnical data by making it easily accessible to key project stakeholders. Geotechnical project team dynamics and…

Geoteric launches seismic interpretation products

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Software and services provider Geoteric has launched two new seismic interpretation products, powered by artificial intelligence (AI): Collaborative AI and Geoteric Stratum. Adding to the existing Geoteric workflows, Collaborative AI enhances traditional interpretation, and extracts faults from seismic data at the click of a button – no requirement for network…

Topcon launches Magnet Construct V4 for Android and iOS

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Topcon Positioning GB has introduced field software Magnet Construct V4 for Android and iOS to improve accuracy on site. Magnet Construct is a field software that directly communicates with survey hardware to provide a full data collection . It sets out workflow, with users now able to go beyond basic…