Geospatial professionals from all around the world came together in Stuttgart, Germany last week for the annual Intergeo conference and exhibition. The three-day event included a variety of conference content looking at the present and future of the industry, as well as three exhibit halls with some of the largest companies in the space showing off their newest and most innovative tools and solutions. Geo Week News was in attendance for this year’s event, and spent the week honing in on the latest trends in the industry and catching up with those aforementioned companies at their booths.
We’ve been covering our experience of the week over the last few days, and wanted to put all of that coverage in one place. Below, you can find all of our coverage from the three-day event.
Five Takeaways from Intergeo 2024
Before getting into our specific conversations from the week in Germany, we wanted to start off with a look at the biggest takeaways we had from the event. Over the three days, as mentioned above, we had a number of conversations with both companies and end users while also attending a number of sessions. Here, you can find our biggest takeaways from all of that, ranging from specific trending technologies to more overarching ideas capturing the industry.
Emesent Shows Off New RTK Products and More at Intergeo 2024
Starting with our conversations with specific companies, Geo Week News caught up with Emesent’s Stefan Hrabar. In this article, we talk about some of the new products the company was showing off in Germany, largely relating to their RTK product line for data capturing using a variety of methods.
RIEGL Unveils a Series of New Products at Intergeo 2024
Unsurprisingly, RIEGL had a lot of new products to unveil at Intergeo this week, which makes sense given the number of different industries and use cases they serve with their lidar systems. My-Linh Truong took some time to show Geo Week News around the company’s booth, giving intel about their new lidar systems for UAS platforms, crewed aircraft, terrestrial scanners, and IMU/GNSS solution.
NavVis Shows Off MLX Scanner at Intergeo 2024
NavVis unveiled their big new release, the handheld mobile scanner MLX, prior to Intergeo, but this was the first time many professionals got to see the system up close. Geo Week News is among those, and Morten Hellemann answered many questions people had about the new system, including why they’ve included shoulder straps for the nominal handheld mobile mapping system.
Trimble Discusses Reality Capture Software and Hardware at Intergeo 2024
Always one of the most interesting companies to talk to at these events, Trimble serves a number of different industries and thus always has a variety of products to show off. For our visit, Geo Week News largely focused on their recently announced Reality Capture Platform. Gregor Willhauck shared the details about the new platform, including what some of the biggest questions they’ve gotten about the platform while also touching on some updates to the company’s reality capture hardware lineup.
Esri Promotes Industry Collaboration at Intergeo 2024
Whereas most of the discussions above revolved around specific technologies and products, Esri’s booth visit was a different kind of discussion for Geo Week News. We had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Kate Fickas, who spoke about the company’s place within the geospatial industry and some of the trends they’ve noticed at Intergeo. Specifically, the conversation touched on trends toward more collaboration and cooperation between professionals and organizations with differing, but complementary, areas of expertise.
Hexagon Unveils iCON Trades Solution at Intergeo 2024
Another company who serves a number of different professionals and sectors, one of Hexagon’s big focuses at this event was their new iCON Trades Solution, which was announced prior to the show and unveiled last week. Geo Week News spoke with Agata Fischer about the the company’s hope to bring simplified tools to the field to help enhance adoption of smoother office-to-field workflows.
PointCab Introduces Nebula 2.0 at Intergeo 2024
While most of the discussions above revolve around new hardware solutions to collect data, it's undeniable that the software is the crucial piece of the puzzle to getting insights and value from said data. That's what PointCab provides, and Geo Week News spoke with the company's Chief Marketing Officer about their new point cloud viewing and sharing tool, Nebula 2.0, which is currently looking for beta testers.
