The Wichmann Innovations Award will be confered again in 2017 in the categories hardware and software. In addition the Wichmann Verlag assigns this year a startup award in consultation with Intergeo and DVW e. V.

Based on the criteria “innovation”, “user-friendliness” and “practicality”, the public will be asked to vote for the best products on show at the fair.

Choose your top product from the nominees presented here. Vote online on www.gispoint.de/wia by 27 September. With a bit of luck you could win a Garmin Vivosmart HR+.

The trusted jury, consisting of Prof. Dr. Jukka Krisp of Runder Tisch GIS e. V., Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Blankenbach, RWTH Aachen University, Dr.-Ing. Markus Seifert, LDBV Bayern, Dipl.-Ing. Udo Stichling, President of the DDGI, and Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl of the University of Salzburg, has once again agreed to evaluate the applications and select the nominees. We expressly thank both the jury and the applicants.

The award ceremony is part of the closing event for Intergeo on 28 September 2017.

Following you will find short summaries of the selected products and applications.

On the following pages you will find short summaries of the selected products and applications.
Now it’s up to you. Who will win the cups? Who will push all others aside and beat the competition in the Wichmann Innovation Award? The online voters can also look forward to some attractive prizes. Win a Garmin Vivosmart HR+, a subscription for our gis.Business/gis.Science and avn journals, or a book from the Wichmann publishing catalogue.

The Wichmann team wishes you good luck.

The Leica BLK360 is a revolutionary miniaturised black 3D ­imaging laser scanner. The BLK360 captures the world around you with full-color panoramic images overlaid on a high accuracy point cloud. It features a 60 meter measurement range for full dome scans. A complete full-dome laser scan, 3D panoramic ­image capture and transfer to the iPad Pro takes only 3 minutes.

www.leica-geosystems.com/de-de // Hall 1.1, booth A1.024

“ppm skeyepad” is an intergrated GNSS solution based on a 8“ tablet. The customer can choose between a Windows or an Android OS. In addition the customer has the choice between the Novatel OEM7 or the Trimble MB-two GNSS board. Both are high end solutions with capable option. That makes it possible to have different solutions based on the accuraccy. From submeter up to 1 – 3 cm. And the user can upgrade the accuracy by optional software codes. This unique solution works more than 10 hours with the integrated battery by using the GNSS and the LTE module.

www.ppmgmbh.com // Hall 1.1, booth E1.015

SmoothRide with its road scanner RD-M1 revolutionizes the workflow for design and construction in existing contexts using a combination of hardware and software. The goal is to enable an optimized, safe and more cost-effective work process from a project start to a project end. The result is a much smoother road and a safe, faster, material-optimized road construction.

www.topconpositioning.de // Hall 2.1, booth A2.008

The UltraCam Panther is a versatile, portable Mobile Mapping System. It carries complementary sensors to capture full-spherical imagery and video, dense 3D Lidar point clouds and precise geopositioning information – indoors and outdoors. The panoramic head, the systems centerpiece, captures very high-resolution still imagery or video with a 360-degree field of view. A multi-­beam rotating Lidar sensor simultaneously collects precise 3D data and a GPS/INS system, combined with a visual odometry sensor, enables accurate positioning even in environments ­where no GNSS signals are present.

www.vexcel-imaging.com // Hall 4.1, booth C4.022