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May 23, 2013 – The Athenian port of Piraeus, a major commercial and Europe’s largest passenger port, will soon be served by the Athens Tram. A contract to perform civil engineer studies for the new extension went
to 2KP, an Athens-based consulting engineering firm. Lire la suite

Corum, Turkey – January, 2013 – The Hittite University School of Corum Department of Mapping and Cadaster has purchased two Spectra Precision EPOCH 50 GNSS receivers and eight Spectra Precision FOCUS 8 total stations for academic study and research. “The new Spectra Precision units were chosen for their economy and precision. They strengthen the education and research laboratories used by our more than 165 students,” according to Ibrahim Murat Ozulu, lecturer. “The new units will help ensure that our graduates are ready to carry out the fullest range of tasks demanded of technicians and assistant project managers in today’s construction projects in private enterprise and government. In addition the units will be available for University scientific research projects,” Ozulu added. Lire la suite

One of the world’s most successful military training aircraft, the PZL-130 TC Orlik, manufactured by EADS PZL "Warszawa-Okecie" S.A., is now being leveled with the aid of a Nikon Nivo 5M total station. Aircraft leveling, both longitudinal (forward and aft) and lateral (left to right), is performed in the final stages of assembly. Accurate leveling of the aircraft on the ground is required before precise alignment and symmetry checks can be performed to confirm that the geometry of the aircraft is to specification Lire la suite

In the heart of landlocked Mali, the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles to the south the Sahara desert adjacent to the north, lays the extraordinary Inner Niger River Delta, also known as the Macina, a 1.8 million hectar oasis of lakes and floodplains with a vast potential for hydro agriculture. CIRA, a major West African consulting engineering firm, working on behalf of the Office du Niger, a quasi-governmental Mali company charged with managing more than 100,000 hectares of irrigated delta land, has completed surveying an additional 25,000 hectares for hydro-agriculture development. Lire la suite

OPGK a major survey firm working on road survey contracts across Poland is achieving significantly improved efficiencies using a newly developed Electronic Center for Management of Geodata (ECMG) to link remote field technicians and the central office. With ECMG a single field technician can take measurements for a proposed road from virtually anywhere in Poland and send all data wirelessly to the central office for overnight preparation of road design stakeout data to enable next day staking. Lire la suite

The Latvian State Forest Service (SFS) recently evaluated four leading brands of GNSS handheld mapping devices in a head-to-head comparison that included rigorous field trials, financial cost and technical specifications. The Ashtech MobileMapper 100 achieved the best results in all comparisons, according to an SFS spokesperson. Lire la suite

GNSS speed and accuracy are achieving new levels of performance with the ProMark 500. In a recent application in the city of Ermont, a ProMark 500 was used in six-weeks time to create an as-built-plan of the city’s entire sewage system by capturing more than 5000 centimeter-level accurate effluent entrance points in x, y and z coordinates. Lire la suite

Beneath the surface of this tropical paradise in the city of Townsville on Australia’s Sunshine Coast lies a still hidden maze of tunnels and underground bunkers, once said to be used by General Douglas MacArthur. Learning the secrets of this labyrinth that was a major WWII staging point for battles in the South West Pacific is the passion of Kevin Parkes, of Geo Positioning Services, a local Ashtech dealer. Lire la suite

Confirming the accuracy of as-built plans for recently buried fiber optic, gas and electric lines has become much simpler and more efficient with the aid of the Ashtech ProMark 500 GNSS receiver and a new EdiPocket GIS software module. SIEA, a French association that manages energy, communication, electricity and gas networks for the 419 communes of the Ain department in eastern France, has found the innovative new method both simple and efficient, and it expects that it can lead to improved contractor performance. Lire la suite

Pour le Syndicat Intercommunal d'énergie et de e-communication de l'Ain (SIEA), la vérification de l'exactitude des plans de récolement des réseaux de gaz, d'électricité et de fibres optiques récemment enterrés a été grandement simplifiée grâce au récepteur GPS ProMark™ 500 d'Ashtech® et au nouveau logiciel terrain SIG EdiPocket®. Lire la suite

Following last year’s devastating earthquake, Haiti's reconstruction effort has an urgent and growing need for precise geospatial information. To help both local and international institutions with their rebuilding efforts, Ashtech has donated 10 MobileMapper 100 GNSS receivers for GIS data collection. Lire la suite

Lloyd Baker performed his first field surveys in Cokeville, Wyoming in 1937. More recently, in the week of his 100th birthday party, attended by more than 300 invited guests, Lloyd was once more in the field, surveying Star Valley, Wyoming. Lire la suite

In late autumn 2009, 200 kilometers north of Quebec City, a survey crew from Genivar, one of Canada’s largest engineering firms, accidentally let slip its Ashtech MobileMapper CX into the fast moving Pika River... Lire la suite

Kicking off National Surveyor’s Week in the U.S. this spring was an opening day “Surveying USA” event sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). The event included volunteer surveyors from all 50 states ... Lire la suite

MétéoSuisse, l'Office fédéral de météorologie et de climatologie, a choisi le récepteur GNSS ProMark 500 d'Ashtech pour mener à bien le programme de modernisation de son réseau météorologique. Cet équipement topographique intelligent mesure en temps réel avec une précision centimétrique la position de tous les capteurs du réseau Suisse - plus de 1 100 ! - des 135 stations météo réparties dans tout le pays. Lire la suite

The Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture (HCA), a public national agricultural informational and advisory service assisting Hungarian agricultural producers, has recommended that Hungarian farmers purchase MobileMapper® CX, GPS/GIS receivers to measure and calculate the size of land parcels they farm. Lire la suite

As part of a major upgrade and renewal of the Swiss Metrological Network of weather stations, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, is employing an Ashtech ProMark 500, smart GNSS receiver, to measure to centimetre-level accuracy the position of each of its more than 1,100 sensors located at 135 stations throughout the country. Lire la suite

Terrain, société de cartographie athénienne, publie les premières cartes très détaillées à grande échelle (de 1:10 000 à 1:100 000) de Grèce, élaborées exclusivement à partir de données SIG collectées par des équipes mobiles de cartographes. Lire la suite

Greek cartographers use MobileMapper 100 to produce first totally field-researched, information-rich maps for cyclists, hikers, climbers, canyoners and sailors Lire la suite

The cluster sampling studies, usually conducted by ten, two-person teams, are carried out under the auspices of the University of North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness Spatial Health Assessment and Research Program (SHARP). One example of an upcoming survey, which is being done in collaboration with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), will study how the reproductive health needs of women may have been affected by the 2010 ravaging floods in coastal counties of North Carolina. Lire la suite

Forty-nine Ashtech MobileMapper 6 GPS/GIS field terminals have been purchased by two key Republic of Kosovo agencies, to map property boundaries to help resolve private property claims. Lire la suite

The Ashtech ProFlex 500 receiver has been selected to provide GNSS position data to the recently introduced FieldSens underwater utility mapping system from Optimal Ranging Inc. FieldSens is a faster and more accurate means of locating underwater utilities than conventional methods. Lire la suite

GAP (Governance Acceptability Project for Bosnia and Herzegovina) has recently purchased 46 Ashtech ProMark 3 RTK GPS receivers to help cadastre offices in 23 municipalities to support municipal capital improvement projects and simplify procedures for urban construction and land use administration. Lire la suite