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In the Kingdom of White Gold +++ Mission Service +++ Leica ADS40: 700 people saved +++ The Great Ancona Landslide +++ World's Largest Trimaran +++ Recording World Heritage +++ Standardization: Strong Return on Investment +++ City-Tunnel Leipzig +++ A City on the Move +++ Documenting a Subsea Tunnel
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- In the Kingdom of White Gold
Museum? Tourist attraction? High-tech mine? The Berchtesgaden Salt Mine is something of all of them. The show mine attracts around 400'000 visitors per year. Every day, the 28 solution mining boreholes produce about 2'000 cubic meters of brine, which yields over 530 tonnes of highvalue raw salt. And for surveying specialists, too, the salt mine is a fantastic journey through time.
- Mission Service
Leica Geosystems instruments and solutions are in use with our customers in all parts of the world. At the same time we are committed to providing the best support and service – no matter where the customer and instrument are located. A balancing act that our Central Technical Services Team and its partners perform every day.
- Leica ADS40: 700 people saved
700 people could be saved in Cao Ping after their message “SOS700” was discovered in imagery collected with a Leica ADS40 airborne digital sensor.
- The Great Ancona Landslide
On 13th December 1982, a very large zone of the city of Ancona was devastated by a huge landslide, affecting 11 % of the urban area. Homes and infrastructure were seriously damaged, about 3’000 people had to be evacuated. The railway and state highway were blocked, and water and gas supplies interrupted. After years of study authorities decided that consolidation was not a feasible option. This was due to both the cost and the environmental impact, which would have devastated the areas’ natural character. Therefore, the City Council decided to ensure the safety of the local population by designing and installing a complex integrated monitoring system to provide constant control of the landslip area.
- World's Largest Trimaran
With a wealth of experience acquired through the construction of a long line of racing boats, the Banque Populaire has gained considerable notoriety in the field of sailing. The “Sailing Bank” is staying its course with a new challenge: the construction of the world’s largest trimaran – the Banque Populaire V. Designed with the aim of beating the major sailing records, it consists of a forty-meter-long central hull, floats measuring thirty-seven meters in length and a forty-five-meter mast. The “Sailing Bank” has chosen the French company Ecartip to measure and test the manufactured parts using a Leica Geosystems 3D laser scanner.
- Laser Dots and Lines for Living History
High on a sunny slope on the Eastern border of the Engadin Valley in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden is a small mountain village, home to 175 people. Its name is Tschlin. The economic prospects of this village would be bleak, were it not for a spirit of enterprise and innovation among its people. But no change without challenges: How can you stem the demographic bleeding of a dying town and sustain a viable population by providing young families with a livelihood? How can you restore and maintain the iconic buildings without turning them into museums? How can you adapt historic farm houses to become vacation homes without losing the village’s character?
- Recording World Heritage
CAP, the Cyrene Archaeological Project, is devoted to recording the remains of the Greco-Roman city at Cyrene in Libya and is a joint venture between Oberlin College (USA), the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Department of Antiquities (Libya). The site is part of the Green Mountain Conservation and Development Area, which was recently established by the Libyan government under “The Cyrene Declaration”. CAP’s aim is to record the standing structures and buried features within this UNESCO World Heritage Site in a systematic, traceable and comprehensive method using a combination of land-based, aerial and sub-surface measurement techniques – amongst them a Leica ScanStation and a Leica HDS6000 scanner.
- Excavating in the Brisbane River
Clean water is a precious commodity – especially when there just isn’t enough. Unfortunately this is the case in the eastern parts of Australia which have been experiencing significant drought over the last two years. As part of an overall plan to forestall the effects of any future drought, and to buffer the effects of the current one, the Queensland Government’s Western Corridor Recycled Water Project was implemented. When it is constructed, it will be the largest recycled water scheme of its kind in the southern hemisphere – no small feat.
- Standardization: Strong Return on Investment for SKM
Known for its leadership and innovation in spatial information products and services, Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) is once again forging a new path – this time in the delivery of its spatial services. On a scale not often seen in Australia SKM has standardized its national survey services equipment portfolio after entering into a significant contract with Leica Geosystems Australian distributor CR Kennedy.
- City-Tunnel Leipzig
Ranked among the largest stub terminals in Europe, Leipzig's main rail station is one of the most important transportation nodes in Central Germany's regional and long-distance public transport system. The stub terminal certainly offers travellers easy access and convenient connections but its architecture makes changes in the direction of travel very time-consuming and takes up a much greater area than a through station would. One of Germany’s most complex tunnel projects shall end this situation: The City-Tunnel Leipzig.
- A City on the Move
High above the streets of Manhattan there is a new form of public servant dedicated to serving and protecting the people, property and assets of New York City. This servant works 24/7, never asks for a raise and never takes a break. Its main purpose is to continuously measure and monitor any movement of buildings and structures that might take place while heavy construction continues around the clock throughout the city that never sleeps.
- 3D Measuring for Building Refurbishment
In times of energy shortages and price increases, more attention is paid to ways to exploit energy saving potential. The CCEM Retrofit Project does exactly this in the building sector, an area thought to offer major energy saving potential. One approach to maximise saving potential is to jacket old buildings with prefabricated elements. An indispensable step in the process is highly accurate and reliable acquisition and provision of 3D planning data. This is where geomatics comes in, making an important contribution to future energy savings in buildings within the CCEM Retrofit Project.
- Documenting a Subsea Tunnel
The E18 Bjørvika project, scheduled to be completed in February 2010, will improve the environment of Oslo’s inner city and enhance the area around the new opera near Bjørvika harbour by moving traffic underground – and under water. Part of this ambitious project is a subsea tunnel – the first one ever built in Norway – consisting of six 100 m long elements. The shape of the tunnel is an additional challenge for the engineers: each element is curved, and some of them were built on a flat floor in the dry dock, but will have to fall to the seabed to reach their final destination. A case for Leica Geosystems’ High Definition Surveying™, as told by Frode Edvardsen from contractor Skanska in Norway.
- Training & Service in Guatemala
A comprehensive Peace Accord, signed on 29 December 1996, ended 36 years of civil conflict in the Central American State of Guatemala. The Accord’s land-related commitments included establishing a cadastral-based land registry. The “Guatemala Cadastre Project” fully relies on Leica Geosystems’ products – and the ongoing support of the Guatemalan distribution partner Precision, S.A.
- Terrain Measurement in Japan
A big Aerial Laser Measurement project, which measured about a quarter of the whole country (100'000 km²), took place in Japan from 2005 to 2007. Asia Air Survey took part in this project and was responsible for one fifth of the specified area. To complete and manage the large volume of measurements effectively, the company decided to rely on Leica Geosystems technology for the first time and to be the first to use a Leica ALS50-II in Japan.
- Accuracy for the Agriculture Industry
Leica mojoRTK revolutionizes the agricultural industry with a new auto-steer system that provides repeatable 5 cm RTK accuracy with 99 % reliability. It is packaged in a console that is easy to use and installed in about an hour into the tractor’s radio slot. mojoRTK provides an affordable solution for farmers who need to see repeatability pass to pass and year to year. “We have virtually eliminated cab clutter and developed a true plug-and-play solution that allows farmers to install the console in their tractor quickly and easily,” says Mario Hutter, European business manager for Leica Geosystems’ Agriculture Division. “The complete mojoRTK system also comes with a cordless base station which can be mobile or fixed.” |
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