2025 User Group Meeting
Trust your position. Then elevate it.
April 7-9, 2025 • Toronto, ON, Canada
April 7 - 9, 2025
Begins 8:45 AM EST
InterContinental Toronto Center
"In just two days of workshops, I gained more in-depth technical knowledge than in two years of using the product. The event offered amazing networking opportunities, a friendly atmosphere, and a fantastic social program. With experts on hand to answer every question, I’m thrilled another [UGM] is coming up—I’ll definitely attend!"
Rokas Adiklis, CTO, AISPECO
Elevating inertial education.
The Trimble Applanix User Group Meeting is a two-day intensive training and networking event where precision and innovation intersect. By integrating varying degrees of social with study—combining timely educational sessions with real-world customer insights, hands-on workshops, and thought-provoking discourse—the Applanix UGM is perfectly calibrated to help surveying professionals and system integrators chart their company’s course for even greater success.
Compelling content
By exploring topics such as solar scintillation, flying beyond line-of-sight, navigating increasingly complex environments, large-scale data mapping, and the integration of AI, this UGM accelerates users’ understanding of cutting-edge technologies that are driving the future of surveying and positioning automation.
Networking
Engaging with accomplished engineers, product managers and C-Suite executives across various sectors helps establish lasting business relationships, and the opportunity to learn from peers’ practices, processes and performance.
Evening appreciation activities
Keep the energy flowing into the evening with two nights of lively entertainment that showcase some of the city’s finest activities, food and drink, providing the space to unwind, enjoy—and perhaps even stoke new interests and passions!
Quality content
Quality content on some of the industry's most timely topics
Dynamic conversations
Engaging, real-time discourse and feedback on industry perspectives and product experiences
Customer studies
Real-world customer cases to learn from their challenges and successes
Practical workshops
Hands-on workshops to upgrade your software skills
Networking
Networking with key industry stakeholders to foster professional relationships and collaboration
Hotel & Accommodations
Surround yourself with style at the InterContinental Convention Center, the site of our 2025 User Group Meeting. Transform your stay into your own personal oasis with access to the hotel’s large indoor swimming pool, state-of-the-art fitness center, tranquil spa services, gourmet dining, and other comfort amenities.
Rather explore? Centrally located at the core of downtown Toronto, you’ll be mere steps away from many of the city’s greatest draws and attractions.
Nearby attractions
CN Tower
Rogers Center
Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada
Eaton Shopping Center
Princess of Wales Theatre
InterContinental Toronto Center
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Group Meeting Schedule Overview
Please note: our program and speakers are subject to change.
Monday April 7th, 2025
Registration
Social Reception
4 PM - 6 PM
6 PM - 10 PM
Tuesday April 8th, 2025
Opening Remarks
Keynote
Coffee Break
Sessions
Lunch
Trimble Applanix Education
Coffee Break
Trimble Applanix Education
Personal Time
Customer Appreciation Event
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM - 10 AM
10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12 PM
12 PM - 1 PM
12 PM - 3 PM
3 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5 PM
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6 PM - 10 PM
Wednesday April 9th, 2025
Second Day Remarks
Sessions
Coffee Break
Sessions
Lunch
Workshop Tracks
Coffee Break
Workshop Tracks
8:45 AM - 9 AM
9 AM - 10 AM
10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12 PM
12 PM - 1 PM
12 PM - 3 PM
3 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5 PM
Meet our 2025 Keynote:
Ron Chapple
VP Global Strategic Solutions, Digital Twins
NV5 Geospatial
As the VP of Global Strategic Solutions Digital Twins at NV5 Geospatial, Ron Chapple works with clients around the world, and leads a team of talented professionals who acquire, process, and analyze high-resolution lidar and imaging data to create digital twins for various industries and applications.
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Visit NV5 Geospatial.
Speakers
Appearing in alphabetical order.
Félix Audirac
CEO
CartoData
Félix Audirac is a visionary leader and geospatial technology expert, serving as the CEO of CartoData, one of Latin America's geospatial solutions providers. Under his leadership, CartoData has transformed industries by enabling innovative uses of spatial data to address complex challenges in urban planning, natural resource management, land management, and more. Félix has spearheaded several high-impact projects, including Elsalvadormaps.sv which provided critical geospatial data to support country-wide strategical management.
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Matt Bethel
Director of Operations and Technology
Merrick
Matt Bethel has been in the remote sensing business since 1997. He is the current ASPRS Lidar Division Director and actively contributes to promoting improvements in the lidar industry on behalf of ASPRS. His credentials include Certified Photogrammetrist (CP) and GIS Professional (GISP). He coauthored the Lidar Best Practices Addendum to the ASPRS Positional Accuracy Standards for Digital Geospatial Data Edition 2, Version 2 (2024). Matt is Director of Operations and Technology for Merrick & Company. His expertise includes multi-sensor systems engineering covering design, integration, testing, maintenance, and operations.
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Noam C. Golombek
CEO
RATHA
Noam is a seasoned professional with 10 years of experience designing, implementing, and testing sensor systems. He has collaborated with leading automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to transform concepts into operational systems, including the development of demo and testing vehicles. With expertise in both on-road and off-road applications, Noam has advanced autonomy and mobility solutions, delivering innovations in dynamic route planning, 3D reconstruction, and sensor calibration.
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Jason Kim
CEO
Mobiltech
Jason Kim, CEO of Mobiltech, brings a wealth of expertise in autonomous driving, mobile mapping, and digital twin technologies. Holding a B.S. and Ph.D. candidacy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, Jaeseung's research has focused on 3D LiDAR mapping, sensor fusion, and SLAM. He has led Mobiltech's innovations in high-precision digital twin solutions, advancing spatial information technology to support smart cities and autonomous driving.
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Visit Mobiltech.
Michael Koterba
CTO
MJ
Glenn Douglas (Doug) Logan
Technical Domain Expert
NV5 Geospatial
Doug has over 42 years of experience relating to Photogrammetry, Mapping, Surveying, Ortho, Lidar, Project Management, and Road Design. Doug is a softcopy photogrammetry specialist and currently oversees many of the ABGPS/IMU, aerotriangulation and imagery processing with ADS100, DMC, RCD30, Phase One, Vexcel Eagle and Osprey, acquisition projects and control selection. Held a Security Clearance for 20 years. Hobbies include small home improvement projects, Sports, and fishing.
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Trond Løke
CEO
NEO
With 22 years at NEO, Trond started by developing the first HySpex camera. He's held roles from research scientist to CTO and CEO of HySpex, and now serves as CEO of the entire NEO group. He remains hands-on with NEO's airborne projects. In his spare time, his favorite hobby is continuing to be the CEO of NEO!
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Scott Merritt
VP of Research and Development
Surdex
Scott Merritt has been with Surdex, a Bowman Company for 31 years. He is an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist and has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Scott has held many positions in operations and sales, providing valuable experience to guide the development of innovative solutions. This has been a cycle of integrating the latest advancements in remote sensing to build foundational geospatial products like ortho imagery and lidar. Over the past 22 years on NAIP Surdex has developed a highly automated system to process both frame and line imagery using best of breed in-house, open source and commercial software.
Soumya Misra
Co-Founder & CEO
SISIR Radar
Soumya Misra is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sisir Radar, with a BTech and MTech from IIT Kanpur. His career spans key roles at Intel, Creo, and Hike, where he led smartphone design for a Sequoia-funded startup. Recognized as one of India’s top 50 mobile phone designers by the Government of India, Soumya has deep expertise in hardware design, miniaturization and image processing. An avid tech innovator, he has authored several papers on nanoelectronics and enjoys exploring new frontiers in technology.
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Jochen Nowotny
CEO
Track Machines Connected (tmc)
Jochen Nowotny is CEO of Track Machines Connected (tmc), an Austrian company of more than 100 experts developing digital solutions to monitor and optimize railway infrastructure. Jochen is also CEO of Rail Track Analyzer, a German company using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology to assess track beds KPIs and improve maintenance decisions. Previously, he led global teams at Kapsch CarrierCom, managing large-scale GSM-R network projects. Jochen holds a Computer Science diploma and an MBA.
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Group Meeting Educational Program
Trimble Applanix Learning 1 — Charting New Technologies: Product News & Updates
Trimble Applanix products constantly evolve and improve to meet the demands of today’s complex applications and environments. Review the latest inertial hardware, software and technology solutions available to further advance your airborne or mobile mapping project.
Trimble Applanix Learning 2 — Brush-Up on the Basics: The Fundamentals of GNSS
As a long-standing staple in the navigation scene, understanding how GNSS integrates with inertial systems is imperative to improving positioning accuracy. Learn the basics, including how Trimble IonoGuard™ mitigates harmful interference due to solar activity and how CenterPoint® RTX technology has revolutionized obtaining centimeter-level positioning accuracy in both real-time and post-processing, with high efficiency and without dependence on base stations.
Trimble Applanix Learning 3 — Brush-Up on the Basics: Inertial, Sensors, and Success
Learn about and identify the key components of multi-sensor aided inertial navigation, and how the Applanix IN-Fusion+™ technology enhances accuracy and produces highly robust and accurate position and orientation. Learn how error correction and calibration techniques can overcome common challenges.
Trimble Applanix Learning 4 — The Direct Georeferencing Method: In-Practice for Air and Land Applications
Become well-versed in how one determines a mapping payload’s geographic coordinates based on position and orientation with high-precision, “survey-grade” accuracy – without the need for ground control points (GCPs). Understand Direct Georeferencing’s (DG’s) unique advantages in mapping from air and land vehicles and how this translates into a reduction in project’s constraints such as time, scope, and cost.
Trimble Applanix Learning 5 — We Hear You: Sharing Common Questions and Feedback
Our Voice of Customer 2024 Survey was the largest conducted to date, spanning a wider and more diverse footprint than ever before to fully capture user sentiment. We’ll endeavor to highlight some of the most commonly asked questions pertaining to inertial navigation and Trimble Applanix products, solutions, and services.
Trimble Applanix Workshop 1A — POSPac for Air: Expertly Process and Manage Your Data
Post-processing GNSS and inertial data is a critical step to refining and correcting your flight positioning information, especially when taking into account the different flight dynamics of unmanned vehicles. Receive practical, hands-on training with the Applanix POSPac MMS and POSPac UAV software; Discover some of the program’s best features and time-saving tips to get the job done fast – but most importantly, get it done right.
Trimble Applanix Workshop 1B — DG Quality Control: Optimizing Airborne DG Workflows
Focus on how to achieve the highest data accuracy and efficiency when mapping with crewed and UAV platforms for photogrammetry workflows, using practical tools such as Trimble PP-RTX and Applanix Camera QC™. The importance of understanding Datums and map projections will be addressed in this session.
Trimble Applanix Workshop 2A — POSPac for Land: Expertly Process and Manage Your Data
Post-processing data collection can be confusing terrain, whether the application be for topographic surveying, infrastructure management, urban planning, and the like. Receive practical, hands-on training with Applanix POSPac MMS designed specifically for mobile mapping use cases, learning tips and tricks to ensure that your output and analysis is reliably on-point.
Trimble Applanix Workshop 2B — LiDAR QC Tools for Boresight and Trajectory Adjustment
Deep-dive into our powerful POSPac tool that allows you to improve the accuracy and reliability of mapping specifically with LiDAR platforms. Learn how to perform data integrity and consistency checks, boresight calibrations,and trajectory adjustment using our powerful SLAM software to ensure that your point clouds and camera data are georeferenced to the highest level of accuracy.
Group Meeting Agenda
| Time | Tuesday, April 8 |
|---|---|
| 8:45 AM | Trimble Applanix Welcome Steve Woolven, Trimble Applanix President Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 9:15 AM | Keynote Ron Chapple, NV5 Geospatial Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break Room: Downstairs Foyer |
| 10:30 AM | Session 1 | Digital twins using airborne, land and marine vehicles Michael Koterba, MJ Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 11:00 AM | Session 2 | Utilizing Trimble APX-20 for accurate georeferencing of hyperspectral data in the stratosphere Trond Loke, NEO Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 11:30 AM | Session 3 | Efficient large area photogrammetric and LiDAR mapping projects Félix Audirac, CartoData Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Room: Caledon/Oakville |
| 1:00 PM | Session 4 | Using Applanix POS LV for autonomous vehicle testing in Ratha's data logger Noam Golombek, Ratha Room: Ontario/Niagara) |
| 1:30 PM | Session 5 | Multi-head camera systems for large photogrammetric mapping projects Scott Merritt, Surdex Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 2:00 PM | Applanix Learning 1 | Charting new technologies: Product news & updates Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 2:40 PM | Applanix Learning 2 | Brush-up on the basics: The fundamentals of GNSS Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 3:10 PM | Coffee Break Room: Downstairs Foyer |
| 3:40 PM | Applanix Learning 3 | Brush-up on the basics: Inertial, sensors and success Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 4:00 PM | Applanix Learning 4 | The Direct Georeferencing method: In-practice for air and and applications Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 4:30 PM | Applanix Learning 5 | We hear you: Sharing common questions and feedback Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| Time | Wednesday, April 9 |
|---|---|
| 8:45 AM | Trimble Applanix Day 2 Welcome Eric Liberty, Trimble Applanix Director of Sales Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 9:00 AM | Session 6 | Mapping an entire state in 3D Glenn (Doug) Logan, NV5 Geospatial Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 9:30 AM | Session 7 | Rail infrastructure maintenance Jochen Nowotny, Track Machines Connected (tmc) Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break Room: Downstairs Foyer |
| 10:30 AM | Session 8 | Best practice for large aerial survey projects Matt Bethel, Merrick Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 11:00 AM | Session 9 | Drone- and car-based mobile RADAR Soumya Misra, SISIR Radar Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 11:30 AM | Session 10 | Mobile mapping systems to create digital twins Jason Kim, Mobiltech Room: Ontario/Niagara |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch Room: Caledon/Oakville |
| 1:00 PM | Workshop Track 1.A | POSPac for air: Expertly process and manage your data Room: Ontario |
| Workshop Track 2.A | POSPac for land: Expertly process and manage your data Room: Niagara |
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| 3:00 PM | Coffee Break Room: Downstairs Foyer |
| 3:30 PM | Workshop Track 1.B | DG quality control: Optimizing airborne DG workflows Room: Ontario |
| Workshop Track 2.B | LiDAR QC Tools for boresight and trajectory adjustment Room: Niagara |
Ticket Pricing
Please note that dates listed are approximate and are subject to change.
Early Bird
Receive 50% off the price of each ticket—an excellent value!
Ends: January 31, 2025
General Admission
$750 CAD
Ends: March 26, 2025
Group Discount
Buy 3 or more tickets together for an additional 15% off
Ends: March 26, 2025
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Peter Terrett, GNSS Specialist, 4D Global
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