Wichmann Verlag is now presenting the coveted Wichmann Innovations Award in the categories “hardware” and “software” for the eleventh time.

There are two steps of the award procedure: In the first step, an independent jury of experts examined all submissions and nomi nated the top products and services. Criteria for evaluation were “degree of innovation or novelty”, “usability”, and “practicality”. The jury’s voting will count for 60 % in the final assessment, as in previous years. Now it’s time for the public to vote for the best products on show at the Intergeo.

Join in! Choose your top product from the nominees presented here. Vote online by 11 October 2023.

The jury – consisting of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Blankenbach, RWTH Aachen University, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Joos, Runder Tisch GIS e. V., Dr.-Ing. Markus Seifert, LVG Bayern, Dipl.-Ing. Udo Stichling, advisor of the DDGI, and Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl, University of Salzburg – once again agreed to evaluate the applications. We expressly thank both the jury and the applicants.

The award ceremony is part of the closing event for Intergeo. 

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

Now it’s up to you. Who will win the trophies? Who will push all others aside and beat the competition in the Wichmann Innovations Award? The online voters can also look forward to some attractive prizes. Win a Jochen Schweizer Voucher, 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 new IGI UrbanMapper-2P with 180 mm lenses is a customised extension to the IGI UrbanMapper (UM) product family. This product range was already developed in 2015 and has been tested and approved for national flights in Germany and The Netherlands. With the new model, IGI offers different lens combinations from 90 to 110, 150 to 180 mm and can thus meet every customer requirement. With the largest strip width on the market, the IGI UM-2P offers efficiency that allows customers shorter flight times and thus protects the environment.

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The Leica AP20 AutoPole is a unique, productivity-boosting smart solution for robotic total stations. It removes the last analogue steps in your digital survey workflow. The AP20 AutoPole allows measurements with a tilted pole, provides and records automatic pole height readings and ensures that the total stations searches and locks onto the right target.

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The ppm30xx is a professional GNSS receiver with a unique combination of equipment and features. The customer can choose from different equipment variants and thus get the optimal solution for his tasks. At the same time, the ppm30xx sensor is small, lightweight and very affordable. It copies the successful formula of the 10xx GNSS receiver. A lot of performance for a fair price.

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