Underground Utility Detection (UUD) Survey and Navcom Technical Visit to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietname

Above: Mr Kwok Wui Kang of JPsurveys (right row, front) making the technical presentation of underground utility detection (UUD) survey at Ho Chi Minh City.

A few key members of JPsurveys recently visited Ho Chi Minh City and had a very informative technical exchange session with Department of Natural Resource and Environment HCMC, Branch of Scientific Institute of Geodesy and Cartography and others members of HCMC Association of Geomatics.

The main technical subject discussed was underground utility detection and mapping work of which JPsurveys has been actively involved in for the past few years. JPsurveys also took the opportunity to introduce the new Navcom Land-Pak GNSS system to the Vietnamese surveyors.

We would like to thank Mr Dao Anh Kiet, Director of Department of Natural Resource & Environment HCMC and Mr. Tran Dinh Au, Head of branch of scientific institute of Geodesy and Cartography for receiving the team and the hospitality given to us during our visit. We are especially grateful to Mr Vu Hoang Anh, president of HCMC Association of Geomatics for arranging this meeting/session for us. All in all, it was a fruitful session, and we were very happy to be to be able to renew our friendship with the land survey and geomatic community of HCMC.

Above: Lunch reception.

Official release of Navcom’s Land-Pak All-in-One RTK Land Survey GPS/GNSS solution

On May 31, 2011 Navcom Technology Inc., a leading pioneer in GPS/GNSS technology and wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) officially announced the release of the LAND-PAK, an All-in-One GPS/GNSS solution for land surveyor.

“For years we have assisted our dealers in formulating end user solutions with our products,” said Steve Wilson, NavCom’s GPS Products Business Manager. “By adding that knowledge to our experience, we have created one of the most comprehensive and affordable end user solution for land survey. See full press release statement here.

The ultra modern, all-in-one, ‘more' complete LAND-PAK GNSS system comprises of all the supporting components and accessories (software, hardware and utilities) a land surveyor could ever ask for or even dream of. Beside supporting various high precision positioning applications( with built-in UHF radio link, GSM 3G network RTK etc), it is also bundled with a lifetime of StarFire license which provides 10 cm standalone operation (i.e. without the need of base station) anywhere in the world. The receiver is also capable to switch to the unique RTK-Extend mode which allows for continuous RTK positioning during base station radio outages and therefore boosting RTK work productivity even in the most harsh site condition.

The package also comes with a rugged data collector, controller software, GNSS post-processing and office/desktop CAD software.LAND-PAK, the ‘more’ complete survey system is competitively priced and comes with total 3 year total system warranty.

Download data sheet for LAND-PAK here.

For more information, Email us or call us (for Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN region) at +60193201963 (Kuala Lumpur) during office hour.

Transformation of Land Surveyors......

As our country is undergoing the Economic Transformation Programme to spur our country into a high-income economy, is our profession ready to ride on the technological advancement to be transformed?  Very often, the surveyors are competing among the fellows in price and discount, it is time now to evaluate our core role as a surveyor before such responsibility being taken over by some other profession.

Some quote from this interesting article "Automation of Surveying Creates Disruption and Opportunities" by Houston Neal of Software Advice:

"Historical roles like boundary resolution and topographic survey work cannot be automated, so surveyors will always be needed for these. But they are also the best people to take on more modern duties, such as managing the GPS machine control system."

"To take advantage of these job opportunities, surveyors need to learn to use this technology and “re-brand” themselves. As mentioned above, they will need to learn how to work with CAD files, how to develop 3D models for machine control and how to transfer data into the machine control systems."

"In addition to getting training, surveyors need to brand themselves as machine control experts. Contractors, land engineers and surveyors are all vying for this title and no one has proved themselves in the role yet."

 To read the whole article, click here

Carlson Software 2010 Year End Sale/Specials

Carlson Survey & Civil 2011 Combo: now at USD 1995.00 (from USD 3,000)

Carlson Point Cloud: now at USD 3995.00 (from USD 5,000)

Carslon Survey 2011 for SurvCE V2 users: now at USD 750.00 (from USD 1,500)

Grab it before it is too late. Contact us immediately.

New and Improved Capabilities for Navcom's SF-3050 GNSS receiver

Navcom has released new capabilities and software update for GNSS receiver SF-3050:-

(1) Introduction of single frequency, multi constellation operation model: SF-3050A. The new model tracks GPS’s L1 & GLONASS’s G1 and is Galileo’s E1 capable. Attractively priced, the unit is upgradeable to SF-3050(multi frequency), hence lowering the entry cost of the customers.

(2) Heading and moving base station RTK for vehicle applications.

(3) Enhance features in Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) and

(4) Other new features and improvements

According to Steve Wilson, Navcom's GNSS Business Manager "These new capabilities offer significant new functionalities and variety of options to meet our customers' ever changing needs"

See full announcement here or contact us for more information. Software upgrade is FOC for all existing users of SF-3050.

A Wonderful Gathering of Friends and Associates at 8th MRC

The just concluded 8th Malaysian Road Conference (MRC) had been a wonderful event. It not only brought together all the friends and associates of the Malaysian Road Community, but also provide a forum to potential customers to explore new opportunities.

Our colleagues were there on 9th October to get the booth ready on the auspicious day (10.10.10) to welcome the guests. 
 

The dedicated lots, working hard on Saturday afternoon

Sorry to disappoint you, it was wrongly delivered to our booth

Look familiar? one person working, three others looking?

One of the first visitors

Crowd started to come in

"Yes, thats how we use the Navcom GPS!"

Smile ladies!

Please fill in the survey form and we will give you a surprise gift

Don't you think the technology is fantastic?

For the three-day event, we saw an encouraging turn out of visitors, and all of us were kept busy throughout.  Beside explaining our products and services, we also get the visitors involved by inviting them to answer a few questions on the items displayed in the booth.  In return, everyone get a copy of our "Highways and Expressway Poster".  Learning from our past years' experience, the poster soon became a hot item among the conference participants.  Our booth was really packed at times where we have to stay out of it to ease the jam.

The highlight of the event was the visit of the Deputy Minister of Public Work to our booth on the 12 October 2010.  Y.B. Dato' Yong Khoon Seng  made a brief stop at our booth and our Executive Director Mr Sunny Lee presented a frame-up version of the "Highway and Expressway Poster" to him, witnessed by other officials and the press.

 

The fruitful gathering came to a pleasant ending, and we are now looking forward to the next MRC.

Thanks to all the visitors, friends and associates, and of course not forgetting all the colleagues for their effort and support.

Carlson Software's 2011 office software is now available.

Carlson announced the release of Carlson software's 2011 office software with hundreds of improvements for today's need, speeding and easing design work and increasing accuracy.

Among those exciting improvements are:

a) Carlson Civil and Carlson Survey: ability to Edit Contours and instantly update the underlying 3D model (updates the underlying TIN surface to match the modified contours), a feature that is unique to Carlson.

b) Carlson GIS: New import and export GIS routines for working with SurvCE complete the data loop between field and office. Added support for using Esri Map Standards for CAD to all the GIS data commands, which allows for viewing and editing GIS data in an Esri format. Plus, new ability to create Esri data for sewer networks, lot files, mining timing and surface mine reserves that enables taking this data from Carlson to Esri.

source: http://www.carlsonsw.com/

Carlson Software is a leading producer of software for land development professionals in the surveying, civil engineering, construction and mining industries. Jpsurveys is the sales rep for these products in Malaysia. Jpsurveys is also the dealer for Navcom's SF3050 GNSS receiver with integration of controller software SurvCE from Carlson.