Intergeo Post-Show Report

摘要

The annual Intergeo conference and trade fair, this year held October 8-10 in Essen, Germany, elicited three principal observations from the three GPS World staff who attended:1.Unmanned aerial vehicles, particularly in micro-form factor, have exploded across multiple sectors of the industrial economy. Emulating GPS - and carrying GPS on board in most cases - UAV has become an enabling technology with far-reaching implications.2.Mobile devices bearing GPS/GNSS have likewise exploded, with many more commercial makers and models of handheld survey/mapping devices and location-enabled tablets to be found in Europe than in the United States.