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In Depth - Cat Excavator Next Gen 3D Tech

Five minutes well spent if you are ready to dig into the details of the new Earthworks systems.

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Cat Command for Compaction

It's not on the street, yet, but Caterpillar has announced Cat COMMAND for Compaction. It is an operator assisted technology that will

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Komatsu Proactive Dozing Control

Komatsu has added broader capability to their machine control line with Proactive Dozing Control (PDC) on their Smart Construction "i&q

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Get Ready for ConExpo!

Ryan and Zach will be sharing their experience about how contractors put the latest technology to work in their operation. It's a rare

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American Flat Track

Machine control models aren't just for commercial projects. Quantum's experts improved a problem jump and fixed track drainage issu

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ConExpo-Con/Agg Radio Podcast

The folks at ConExpo put out a monthly podcast you might enjoy. It features experts from the industry discussing a wide range of topics. E

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BNSF Rail Yard Flood

The Quantum Flight Pack is not just for topo flights. Here, it documents flooding conditions at the Mississippi River's crest in a raily

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Mississippi Flood Documentation

Mississippi flood crest documentation.

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Hitachi Grade Guidance

Hitachi now offers a factory-integrated Grade Guidance system. They offer an open architecture for aftermarket kits from Topcon, Trimble and

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John Deere Integrated Machine Control Motorgrader

John Deere's new fully integrated mastless motorgrader machine control system in action. Demo video sent to us by a client. Deere's

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Infographic showing 4 GPS site control principles for machine control: use the design engineer's surveyor, surround the site with control points, calibrate to 5 or more points, and trust but verify with daily checks.

Get Your 3D Grading Under Control: 4 Site Control Principles Every GPS Contractor Needs to Know

Poor site control is the number one problem we see from contractors running GPS machine control. Not bad models or broken equipment. Site control, the first step on every single project. We've seen it cost contractors two weeks of production, turn a correct machine control model on a balanced site into a mysterious site export, and force concrete footings to be redone because the control was rotated 2.8 degrees. Every one of those situations was avoidable.

A screenshot from a drone flight planning interface titled “DJI Mavic 3E Flight Planning for Topographic Survey Mapping” shows a mapped area with a green grid overlay and waypoint markers on the left. On the right, advanced settings display sliders for side overlap ratio (80%), frontal overlap ratio (80%), and margin distance. A note emphasizes that 80% overlap provides good photogrammetry results and should not be set below 70% for 3D mapping. A YouTube play button is centered over the image.

Quantum Flight Pack - DJI Mavic 3E Training Hub

If you're running a DJI Mavic 3E on a construction site, this is where to start. These training videos cover flight planning, RTK setup, camera settings, and calibration — everything you need to get clean topo data that works with your GPS machine control system.