Agenda 2019

ETH Zurich and FHNW initiate the 5th Tag der Geomatik. With an interactive exhibition, lectures and learning modules, experts are offering a fascinating insight into the specialist field of geomatics. The event is open to interested visitors of any age. It will be of particular relevance to students as they will be able to discover and experience exciting training and study opportunities with numerous links to geography, physics, mathematics and information technology, relevant research topics and excellent professional perspectives. More information

The symposium will focus on the less well documented activities of Kern Aarau from the 1970s to 1991 and the transition from an operator in the Swiss machine industry to a high-tech system house. Topics will also include the continued use of Kern products in the geomatics sector around the world and the fact that Kern «lives on» after being taken over in 1991. A symposium with lectures, trips and tours. More information

With the foyer exhibition, the Aarau City Museum takes the history of Kern as an opportunity to document the technical development of surveying and to fathom its social significance to this day: What role does our mobile phone play in this and how do states and companies like Google deal with geodata? A special attraction of the exhibition is a 3D scanner with which visitors can measure themselves and e-mail their own point cloud home. Further information.

To honour and appreciate the 200 year anniversary of Kern Aarau, the 33rd «Geomatic News 2019» event will take place in the Kultur- und Kongresshaus Aarau. A variety of expert lectures and presentations on the latest system solutions from Hexagon / Leica Geosystems will show visitors the ways and processes of the future. More information.

A tour of the Kern Study Collection will give you a glimpse of the little know world of surveying technology, drawing and lenses. Using carefully selected items light will be shed in a varied and entertaining way on the history of Kern the company, outstanding products and interesting features of the 170 year company history. The tour lasts one hour and is suitable for people of all ages with an interest in technical complexities. More information