Topcon Positioning Group, a leading provider of precise positioning products and solutions, made a huge announcement this month. The company has just announced a new addition to its portfolio, the MAGNET Inspect. It also announced a new partnership with another major player in the precision agriculture market.

About the new UAV software
The newly revealed software has been designed to facilitate data processing workflow for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) infrastructure inspection. The new software efficiently manages large data sets to create inspection reports, the company explains. The company has designed the software to allow operators to easily visually navigate UAV images, allowing operators to align 3D reality meshes with raw georeferenced images in one location and filtering them based on their selected criteria, the company explained.

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As mentioned earlier by the company on their website, the new software will work with models from virtually any drones or UAV. Like for example, when combined with Intel Falcon 8+ Drone Topcon Edition and Topcon ContextCapture, the new software will allow operators to efficiently navigate and create reports with inspection images. This will result in a very strong end-to-end inspection workflow, providing a much safer and faster data collection than traditional methods.

 Topcon announces new API partnership
Topcon is teaming up with Raven Industries, a US-based developer of precision agriculture products. The two leaders in the precision agriculture market announced this week a licensing agreement, involving the use of Slingshot Application Programming Interface (API) on Topcon's various software platforms. The Slingshot API, as mentioned earlier by NASDAQ, is a software-to-software interface that benefits the end-user. It provides a simple and seamless way of sharing data between software systems.

About Topcon
Based in Livermore, California, Topcon Positioning Systems (formerly known as Topcon designs and distributes precise positioning products and solution for agriculture, construction, civil engineering, mobile control markets, surveying, mapping and geographic information system (GIS). Additionally, the US-based firm also provides 3D and 2D excavator systems, 3D wheel loader systems and software for excavating and mass hauling, mobile mapping systems, paving systems and compaction systems, and aerial mapping systems.

In addition, the company also provides construction design and planning software, construction management software, geospatial software, agriculture software, remote management tools, and GNSS correction services.