Research & Education
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Leica Geosystems undertakes its own research in our Corporate Technology and Innovation Management Center (CTI) and has many collaborative projects underway with other research institutions.
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The treasures that lie beyond the doors of the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, are sure to capture the heart of any history buff. The museum is filled to the crow’s nest with prized artifacts that celebrate the spirit of seafaring adventure. Visitors from around the world experience over 60,000 square feet of gallery space filled Civil War ironclad USS Monitor artifacts and archives, paintings, small craft with rare figureheads, handcrafted ship models and much more. Perched on a 550-acre woodland park, the museum was recently the center of a major data acquisition effort to capture and digitally preserve a key artifact retrieved from the shipwrecked USS Monitor. more
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The cover article for the March issue of the Professional Surveyor Magazine, "Laser Scanning for Cultural Heritage Applications," was written by John Ristevski and covers two case studies that show how 3D laser scanning is helping to preserve cultural heritage sites. The article also profiles a non-profit organization know as CyArk, which is taking advantage of the new technology to put together an archive and corresponding website of digital records of such historic sites. more
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(Reporter 50, Apr 2004) Researchers at New Mexico State University (NMSU)
have employed Leica Geosystems' remote sensing
and GIS applications to evaluate the Chihuahuan
Desert region in Mexico in order to identify habitat
features most likely to sustain a population of the
endangered Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis). The
final products, a documented predictive model and a
map depicting habitat suitability across a large
portion of the species' range, are aiding in prioritizing
areas for conservation consideration and making land
use decisions that benefit falcon habitat restoration. more
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(Reporter 50, Apr 2004) The world-famous airplane, Junkers W33, has been measured with extreme 3D precision and modelled
using Leica's Axyz software. Leica Axyz is the world's only integrated, intelligent industrial 3D measuring
system, which measures industrial objects, on an electro-optical non contact basis. Under the supervision
of Professor Günther Stegner, Stefan Brüser undertook this work as part of his Engineering masters thesis,
which involved data acquisition for modelling. Approximately 3000 object points of the areoplane’s
outerskin were recorded, evaluated, and then realistically copied in a CAD system. The resulting model is
an 'extremely realistic' copy of the airplane. Originally built in Dresden, 198 planes still exist worldwide. more
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Thermal Stability of Laser Tracker Interferometer Calibration. more
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Dynamic Weighting of Laser Tracker Measurements for Bundle Adjustment. more
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Two different objects were measured. The “Low Aspect Ratio Test” measured a medium sized object that was approximately equal in extent in all three directions. more
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Many companies today employ industrial robots to do manufacturing tasks. However, the ability to position these robots accurately has been limited, and therefore their use has been restricted to doing only repetitive tasks. more
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The Influence Of The Tooling Ball Reflector On The Accuracy Of Laser
Tracker Measurements: Theory And Practical Tests. more
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Improvements and new developments for Leica's laser tracker make it suitable for measuring the relative position of two parts or components during the manufacturing process. more
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The research engineering team at Caterpillar came up with a set of requirements for the system that would capture a D9 bulldozer's track-in-motion data as well as other relevant 3D coordinate data derived from the bulldozer's surface and movement. This technology played a crucial role in measuring simultaneous forces exerted on the bulldozer track shoe, and, at the same time, measuring simultaneous displacement (position and angle) of the track shoe to the ground. more
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The European organisation for nuclear research, CERN, is the world’s largest particle physics centre. Based near Geneva, the laboratory was founded in 1954 as one of Europe’s first joint ventures, and has grown over the years into a foremost example of international scientific collaboration, now bringing together 20 member countries. European particle physics laboratory CERN uses Leica Geosystems’ state-of-the-art laser tracker system to measure key components of the world’s largest-ever particle accelerator. more
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The Advanced Photon Source (APS) sounds like something right out of a Star Trek episode. But in fact, the APS is a third-generation synchrotron-radiation light source research facility, and plays a significant role
in the world of groundbreaking research. There are only three such light sources in the world, and this one is located at Argonne National Laboratory, which is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). more
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