improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on wikipedia . see wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions . april 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . september 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message ikegps limited type public traded as nzx ike industry geospatial information systems emergency management critical asset management agriculture telecommunications mapping utilities mobile resource management government founded new zealand 2004 headquarters wellington new zealand key people glenn milnes ceo website www.ikegps.com ikegps limited previously company name was surveylab is a technology company that designs and manufactures ikegps solutions a handheld integrated laser range finder camera computer gps and 3d compass combined with industry specific software solutions for measuring and modeling assets . ikegps is the first device that can provide verified geotagged data of any distant target together with images that can be accurately measured . contents 1 history 2 products 3 applications 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit ikegps was founded in the mid 2000s by a group of engineers seeking to design and commercialize a solutions to enable the capture of verifiable geodata of offset assets and targets for use in geographical information systems . ikegps is headquartered in wellington new zealand with offices in broomfield colorado and seattle washington . products edit ikegps allows a user to quickly record the geodata of multiple targets together with their photographs . ikegps lets the user do this from a distance which is helpful if the user is dealing with any hard to reach or dangerous target . in 2009 gps world reviewed ikegps as the best gps device in the world for its purpose because of its unique capability . 1 the spike product uses a phone camera and uses a laser based system to capture height width and distance of any object within 2 % accuracy . using an app with those specifications the volume of the object and then model it in 3d . 2 applications edit ikegps is used around the world by utilities for pole audits and asset management by intelligence and defense groups and by other organisations for emergency management and enterprise asset management . a major user of the ikegps is the united states army corps of engineers who have deployed the ikegps across a range of applications for example after the 2005 levee failures in greater new orleans so that engineers could send back information about the scale of problems to be dealt with at different sites and in afghanistan and iraq for rapid mapping of infrastructure . organisations are also using ikegps for humanitarian demining . 3 surveylab s partners include science applications international corporation . see also edit geotagging utility pole inspections asset management remote data collection joint use pole audit references edit i like ike . gpsworld.com . retrieved 2010 01 30 . http www.ikegps.com spike surveylab s ikegps detecting mines in azerbaijan . gpsworld.com . retrieved 2010 03 29 . external links edit official website gemapsight.com nzx.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ikegps & oldid 727534868 categories electronics companiesdata collectionhidden categories wikipedia articles needing style editing from april 2011all articles needing style editingarticles needing additional references from april 2011all articles needing additional referencesorphaned articles from september 2010all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 june 2016 at 16 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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