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Construction site inside a mountain +++ Monitoring: Reducing risk +++ Customer Care Packages +++ DISTO™: Precision for windows +++ Reducing costs with scanned point clouds +++ On the trail of dinosaurs +++ Our eyes in the sky +++ Gotthard Tunnel: World record +++ Aerial photographs for forestry
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Highlights of current issue are:
- Construction site inside a mountain
So this is it – the most spectacular construction site in the entire region? In front of us, at around 1000 metres above sea level, is a poorlylit tunnel leading into the heart of the mountain, with two more similar holes at some distance. St. Barbara, the local patron saint of miners, smiles from behind the protective grating. Not that anyone who is unused to this type of location will find a lot to smile about. Never mind, here we are already, straight into the busy world of Kopswerk II, where Vorarlberger Illwerke AG have blasted the biggest power station construction site in Europe into the side of a mountain.
- Monitoring: Reducing risk
Bridges with increasing spans, skyscrapers, tunnels and railway lines all represent tough challenges for engineers. In the worst case, changes in the ground or the environment can have catastrophic effects on such monumental structures. What can be done to prevent this type of catastrophe from happening?
- Customer Care Packages
As an additional step to meet customer expectations, Leica Geosystems has widened its Active Customer Care program by establishing Customer Care Packages to reflect the importance that is given to customer satisfaction.
- DISTO™: Precision for windows
Renowned window manufacturer Fenster Dörig AG in Appenzell (CH) has been producing wood and wood/metal windows since 195 . With more than 50 employees, the company is a significant employer in the region. In addition to wooden windows, the company also started manufacturing plastic windows in 1996.
- Reducing costs with scanned point clouds
High Definition Surveying (HDS) from Leica Geosystems offers cost savings and provides clients with better information for many types of as built and topographic surveys. Leica Geosystems solutions are the market's number one choice ased on their versatility and overall cost effectiveness.
- On the trail of dinosaurs
Leica Geosystems is hot on the heels of the dinosaurs thanks to a sensational discovery in Germany: the world’s most extensive trails left by iguanodon dinosaurs have been uncovered in the Weserbergland near Hanover/Steinhuder Meer, Germany. Engineering surveyors Ingenieurbüro Malige have precisely measured and mapped the footprints using instruments manufactured by Leica Geosystems. The survey results will ensure that the information is available for scientific evaluation.
- Our eyes in the sky
Monitoring of regions, buildings and erosion, weather observations, earthquake warning systems and traffic information systems – the list goes on. All these systems have been made possible by the invention of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). GNSS equipment technology from Leica Geosystems offers new ways to help users equip themselves for the future.
- Gotthard Tunnel: World record
Located in the centre of Europe, Switzerland is an important hub in the European goods and rail transport network. The Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale (NEAT) is one of four large rail projects currently under construction. The 57 km base tunnel is a key component of the AlpTransit Gotthard project and from 015 will carry trains at speeds of up to 50 km/h. The tunnel is being built from five locations at once: from a north portal at Erstfeld, from intermediate headings at Amsteg, Sedrun and Faido, and from a south portal at Bodio. When it opens it will be the longest rail tunnel in the world.
- Aerial photographs for forestry
The market for aerial photography products for forestry and closely associated industries has changed over the past few years. Customers require higher resolution imagery and results with increased positioning accuracy. Managers of spatial data want to continuously improve the accuracy of their GIS systems to keep them as up to date as possible. |
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