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World's Busiest Airport +++ Forensic Laser Scanning at Bridge Crash +++ Travel Diary Southern Africa +++ Waterschappen Trust MobileMatriX +++ Leica DISTO™ Goes Extreme +++ 28 Points for the Leica SmartPole +++ China uses Leica ADS40 +++ Geospatial Imaging saves Giant Pandas +++ AFREF Project Support
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- World's Busiest Airport
With the capacity to handle 30 million passengers and big enough to fit 50 football pitches over its five floors, London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 (T5) is one of the largest and most ambitious building and engineering projects in Europe. Built with precision, accuracy and speed Leica Geosystems has been trusted as the supplier of choice in helping to deliver the world’s busiest airport.
- Forensic Laser Scanning at Bridge Crash
Leica Geosystems redefined the word “support” when it assisted the California Highway Patrol’s Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) at the recent fiery collapse of a major San Francisco-area overpass. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) not only deployed one of their five Leica ScanStation 3D laser scanners with them to map the scene, but alerted Leica Geosystems who responded by dispatching an application engineer to help them collect and process the accident scene data.
- Travel Diary Southern Africa
Stephane Kaloustian, application engineer in the Leica Geosystems Monitoring Team in Heerbrugg, and M.C. Briers from Geosystems Africa spent a 2-week support and training trip in Southern Africa to perform new installations and maintenance tasks at various open pit mines. Not an ordinary workplace – not even for a Leica Geosystems specialist. For the Reporter, Stephane took some travel notes.
- Waterschappen Trust MobileMatriX
The Association of the Waterschappen (Water Boards) in the Netherlands consists of 27 members without whom it would not be possible to live in this country, where more than a quarter of the land mass lies below sea level. The water boards maintain a vast number of features in the field such as bridges, culverts and fish ladders. Using Leica MobileMatriX, and customizing its functionality, the water boards have created a very fast and efficient workflow for collecting information on new and existing features.
- Tunnelling and Paving with Leica Geosystems
True internationality is demonstrated on the EastLink Project, a tolled freeway project linking a large area of Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs. It is part of the city’s Metropolitan Ring Road project and is due to be completed in 2008. A strategic alliance between Australian surveying company Surex Pty Ltd, German tunnel guidance system supplier VMT and Swiss survey equipment and solution manufacturer Leica Geosystems, has played an important role in the construction of tunnels. Moreover, Leica Geosystems 3D Paving Solutions play their own role – on the 40 kilometers linking Melbourne’s east to Frankston Freeway.
- Leica DISTO™ Goes Extreme
I was invited to join the National Geographic Society “Untamed Rivers” expedition team to East New Britain (Papua New Guinea) in 2006. The objective was to explore some karst features in a remote part of the Nakanai Mountains within the large limestone massif, which rises to an average of 1'000 m and was last visited by westerners in 1984.
- 28 Points for the Leica SmartPole
The regional water authority or “Wasserwirtschaftsamt (WWA)” Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria, Germany, monitors around 100 groundwater measurement stations over an area 18 km wide on each side of the river Isar, between where it joins the Danube and the village of Oberpoering. The points are often several hundred metres, sometimes kilometers, apart and are not always intervisible. In order to be able to take reliable measurements of groundwater levels, it is necessary to determine the position, and above all the height, of each monitored point to an accuracy of +/-2 cm. A task for surveying and geoinformation consulting engineers Schrock and the Leica SmartPole!
- China uses Leica ADS40
The Chinese ShanXi Province Bureau of Surveying and Mapping expected an economic benefit when they purchased a Leica ADS40 Airborne Digital Sensor approximately a year ago. In terms of process flow and precision index, the sensor has achieved an unprecedented breakthrough for the Bureau. In only four months (October 2006 to January 2007), digital image acquisition for an area of 6'800 km², orthophotography using georeferenced data, ground feature data and ground elevation data collection were completed. Precision and quality of the Leica ADS40 imaging data and the digital map were other major benefits gained during the project.
- Geospatial Imaging saves Giant Pandas
In July 2005, many Americans were delighted by new reports about the birth of Tai Shan, a Giant Panda, at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. This was a momentous event bought about by years of collaborative effort between reproductive biologists and veterinarians from the U.S. and China. Using Digital Imaging, Chinese and American experts are also working together to save the habitats of the Giant Panda in the wild.
- GNSS for the Future
The Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) of the Kingdom of Bahrain fully trusted in Leica Geosystems when establishing a Permanent Reference Network of GNSS Receivers using Leica GPS Spider and Leica SpiderWeb Software, Leica GRX1200 GG Pro Receivers as well as Leica AT504 Choke Ring Antennas. The system provides continuous, accurate, real time position information to surveyors and other users requiring high accuracy positioning. H.E. Shaikh Salman Bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, Head of SLRB enthused that “this project is central to the Bureau’s aim to further develop the survey and mapping infrastructure of the Kingdom. This system positions Bahrain alongside other leading countries that have implemented similar systems.”
- AFREF Project Support
The African Geodetic Reference Frame (AFREF) is conceived as a unified geodetic reference frame for Africa – the fundamental basis for the national and regional reference networks. In March, the first permanent GNSS reference station was launched in Kenya. Leica Geosystems supports the project with its knowledge, as well as via donation of a complete system. |
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