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Ordnance Survey with Leica GPS500 +++ Upgrading an oil rig with CYRAX +++ Pin-point measuring over long distances +++ Highly sophisticated GIS of North Sydney +++ Measurements along the Danube +++ The highest peak of the Americas with 6962 metres
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Highlights of current issue are:
- Ordnance Survey with Leica GPS500
Following the start of the new millennium, Leica Geosystems was able to announce in March 2001, a multimillion pound GPS contract, combined with a partnership agreement with Ordnance Survey (OS) – one of the most internationally renowned surveying and mapping authorities. With firstclass technological performance and the evidence of many advantages in reliability and accuracy following demanding testing procedures in harsh environments, the Leica GPS Systems 500 ranked first amongst the tested GPS products available on the market.
- How to upgrade an oil rig with CYRAX
With the help of the Cyrax™ 2500 laser scanner and Cyclone™ software, Chevron Corporation, one of the world’s largest petroleum companies, was able to save considerable time and money in their recent GOMBU Eugene Island 252 Revamp Project.
- Pin-point measuring over long distances
Take reflectorless measurements up to 200 m with the X-Range total stations from the TPS1100 Professional Series. The visible coaxial laser beam, high accuracy and small footprint are the distinguishing features of this unique technology.
- The highly sophisticated GIS of North Sydney
A digital urban model created for North Sydney Council has projected the future of urban management into reality. Leica Geosystems, with its combined strengths in GIS systems development, offers such solutions supporting state-of-the-art city development. Their comprehensive program of terrestrial and global positioning systems, together with the advantages of the photogrammetric aerial camera and software of LH Systems, has made it possible for Australian company, PSN Survey, to capture 1.2 million points and to create from this data a 3D model of North Sydney.
- Control measurements with Leica GPS along the Danube
Could the turbines in a new hydro-electricity generating station cause ships to drift within their shipping lanes? Following the construction of a new hydro-electricity generating station on the bend in the River Danube at the lower Bavarian town of Bad Abbach (Germany), it was feared that the operating turbines might have just such an effect. Therefore, the Geodetic Institute at the Technical University of Munich was commissioned to determine and analyse the tracks of the ships in position and height to an accuracy of ±5 cm in real time.
- No mobile phone signal dead spots thanks to ERDAS remote sensing and image processing software
Geodata, and in particular remote sensing, play a significant role in the accurate positioning of antenna locations and the modelling of signal reception in mobile phone service planning. Using practically all the geodata available for Switzerland, MFB-Geo-Consulting on behalf of Micatel worked out the principles for the positioning of the antenna locations and modelled the signal reception. The work was carried out with Leica-Geosystems’ Erdas image processing software.
- The highest peak of the Americas with 6962 metres
The highest mountain of the Americas is only 38.17 meters short of seven thousand. The indications on maps of the precise elevation of America’s highest peak, Mt Aconcagua, will have to be corrected and increased by two metres. This is the result of an Italian-Argentinian Scientific Expedition led by Geologist Giorgio Poretti. |
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