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WINTER 2010The Survey newsletter from KOREC

Measured SolutionsConstruction | Surveying | Mapping

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What Trimbledid next! Intergeo Releases

Trimble S3 Robotic Total StationOur newest addition to the optical totalstation family makes the Trimble brandmore competitive for customers lookingfor reliability and proven Trimble technology.

The new Trimble S3 Robotic Total StationSystem includes everything needed toperform efficient surveying campaigns:precision positioning performance andpowerful data collection in an integrated,ergonomic solution for convenient, all dayuse. It is built on proven, reliable, Trimbletechnology. The instrument includesTrimble Direct Reflex (DR) technology, formeasurement without a prism and alow-maintenance servo system built onTrimble MagDrive™ technology – eliminatingthe wear and tear associated withconventional drives.

Ideal for: anyone doing a lot of buildingelevation and internal surveys who wants anextremely fast robotic total station.

Intergeo launches are continued overleaf....

KOREC Launch: The GEDOCE Track Measuring Device

We are delighted to announce that the GEDO CE Track Measuring Device (TMD) is nowavailable, allowing KOREC to offer a highly productive and user-friendly rail measuring solution.

The TMD incorporates sensors for very precise measurement of the distance between thetwo rail lines (gauge) and super-elevation between them (cant). A single prism can bemounted on either side of the TMD and then tracked by one of the Trimble S-Series RoboticTotal Stations allowing the geometry of one railroad (left line, right line and centreline) to berecorded in one pass to the highest accuracy.

Offering both ‘stop-and-go’ and ‘kinematic’ measuring options, the system allows in excessof 700 metres of track to be surveyed in one hour. All the data is collected on-board astandard Trimble TSC2 control unit, offering a completely cable-free solution. The TMDtakes its power from the same standard batteries that power the Trimble S-Series RoboticTotal Stations.

The system is scalable, offering software for preparing alignment and tamping files as wellas real-time comparisons with design geometry in the field. Robust, compact and light-weight,the TMD is easily manoeuvrable and has been manufactured to the highest standards.

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Inside this issueWe round up the top Trimble launches at Intergeo

Tips Tips Tips - why our Blog is worth a visit

Customer Stories - Costain, Skanska and Newcastle University tell us why KOREC deliver

A single prism can be mounted on either side of the TMD and then tracked by one of the Trimble S-Series Robotic Total Stations

The S3 - Our newest addition to the optical total station family


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Intergeo Launches continued

Trimble Access Specialized Application for Monitoring

Trimble continues to build upon the success of its innovativeTrimble Access Software Suite with the introduction of a newMonitoring module.

Like other streamlined workflows for Trimble Access, theMonitoring module guides surveyors through a step-by-stepprocess that speeds setup, data collection and reporting. Thisoptional module flattens the learning curve for those new tomonitoring applications and allows surveyors to get their workcompleted faster.

Users can choose to pair this field solution with the powerfulTrimble 4D Control Standard office software for advanced toolsto analyze movement over time. Like the Roads and Tunnelsmodules in Trimble Access, the Monitoring module is availableas either a perpetual license or as a monthly subscription.These options enable flexibility to add more software capabilitieseasily as business needs change.

There is also a specialized Trimble Access for Spatial Imagingmodule.

Ideal for: surveyors looking for a fast entry to deformation monitoring

New GNSS Receivers for basic survey projects

Trimble R4The new Trimble R4 GPS System provideseverything needed to perform basic surveyprojects. The system comes standard withGPS L1 and L2, with the availability toupgrade to GLONASS. With the

easy to use Trimble DigitalFieldbook™ Software, surveyors can

use the system in a Trimble VRSnetwork or RTK applications and forstatic surveying work.

With an optional integrated UHF transmitter, it can also be used as a base

station. The cable-free Trimble R4 is an accurate and reliable GPS receiver that surveyors candepend on when every point counts.

Trimble R5The new Trimble R5 GPS System is one receiver withmany configurations. The modular system enables customers to choose the GPS antenna and communication options that best serve the needs ofthe application. Fixed to a tripod, secured on a roverpole, or stowed in a backpack, the Trimble R5 is idealfor any surveying task from control, measurement,design and stakeout, to as-built work.

With an optional built-in UHF radio modem, it canreceive RTK communications quickly and easily. WithGPS L1, L2, and L2C included and a GLONASSoption, it can track more satellites in challenging environments.

Ideal for: anyone looking for a highly cost-effective entry to survey grade GPS



SoftwareFocus

Customer Stories

Trimble Access – Senddata back and forth –not people!Last years launch of Trimble Access sawTrimble take another step towards the“Connected Site”, providing a fresh, newfield and office productivity solution for surveyors that improves collaboration andcontrol for surveying teams through constant connectivity – a first for the surveying community.

As well as the Specialized Application forMonitoring featured in our Intergeo launches,2009 also saw the release of TrimbleAccess for Spatial Imaging. This new fieldsoftware is designed to take SpatialImaging to the next level, enabling users tomeasure their productivity in terms of significant advances in “Time toDeliverable” not merely points per second.The new software runs on the powerfulTrimble Tablet to control the Trimble GX 3DScanner. It simplifies Spatial Imaging work-flows, so any surveyor can quickly becomea Spatial Imaging expert. This means thatanyone familiar with using Trimble Accessto control Trimble GNSS receivers, total stations or the VX spatial station will nowfind it equally easy to perform complicatedlaser scanning jobs with the GX 3D scanner.

• Access Efficiency: Deliverable-based workflows streamline the process from start to finish.

• Access Confidence: Review the work and deliver from the field.

• Access Your Potential: With little or no formal training, you can become a Spatial Imaging expert.

Just like the Surveying version of TrimbleAccess, new streamlined workflows areavailable for the unique needs of SpatialImaging users in addition to the powerfulGeneral Scanning module.

The Simple LifeSkanska choose Trimble for ‘the little things’ that keep data flowing and a site productive

Following an order for four Trimble R8 Rovers with TSC2 loggers, two Trimble S6 RoboticTotal Stations with TCU loggers and a Trimble 5500 with TCU, Skanska civil engineeringChief Land Surveyor Mark Lawton explains that it is Trimble’s attention to detail that makesthe difference on site. “We have 12 surveyors on our team and have seen vast improve-ments in the newer members simply because of the way our Trimble instruments, withon-board Survey Controller software, handle data. The easy ‘drag and drop’ copying of ourdxf and csv files between the PC and logger - with little or no editing - is a big plus, butperhaps the single most beneficial feature for us is the ‘style sheet’ option which reallysaves time and allows us to perform complex calculations right in the field. Trimble’spre-designed style sheets are easily downloadable from the website and although we couldcreate or customize our own, Trimble’s would be hard to better. It isn’t fancy and it isn’t newbut I now have complete confidence in our new starters simply because it is so easy todownload a stake out report through style sheets. The end result is that we can incorporateour procedures on every device, they lookprofessional and the QA people love it. Notonly do style sheets take a world ofpaperwork away, but each day ourprocessing time has been cut by 20 minutesand overall, our QA process and datapreparation time reduced by 25%.”

The Skanska team additionally reports thatthe Trimble S6 Total Station offers somesimple but useful unique features in the formof SurePoint™ which ensures accuratepointing and measurement even throughwindy weather and vibrations, and MultiTracktechnology which ensures that theirsurveyors always find and lock to the correcttarget, without disruption from nearbyreflective surfaces or other prisms.

Mark also highlights the Trimble TSC2 logger speaker as another simple but useful idea.“The speaker is brilliant in a noisy environment. We are often working on busy motorwaysand hearing and feeling ‘point stored’ through the speaker means that our surveyors canconcentrate on where they are walking and not have to repeatedly check the logger screen.The loggers also have a USB slot which means design data can be put onto a USB stickand downloaded in the field with no need to swap instruments or controllers.”

Members of the Skanska Survey Team test out a new Trimble S6 Robotic Total Station and R8 Rover

“Ten years ago I was getting

through 20-30 level books a year,

now thanks to style sheets and

electronic data flow, it’s down to

just 1 – in this case simplicity

really has led to efficiency!”

Mark Lawton



Antarctic workout for Trimble NetRS ReceiversNewcastle University, the largest geodesy group in the UK and a UNAVCO* associate member has taken delivery of 10 NetRS TrimbleReceivers. These receivers will be used in the Antarctic on a new monitoring project, a collaboration between Newcastle University, DurhamUniversity and British Antarctic Survey along with other overseas partners. Newcastle’s Matt King, a Reader in Polar Geodesy explains, “Theproject involves measuring the motion of the Earth’s crust in Antarctica due to a process called glacial isostatic adjustment or postglacialrebound. Ice sitting on the Earth’s crust depresses the crust in that location. When the ice mass is reduced, as it has done since the lastglacial maximum, the crust rebounds. By using our NetRS receivers to measure this three dimensional rebound, we can get a goodunderstanding of how much ice was there.”

Newcastle University has the benefit of learning from UNAVCO’s vast experience in polar GPS deployment as well as their own experiencesto draw upon when it came to selecting the GPS for this project. Matt continues, “We were convinced that the Trimble NetRS’s woulddeliver the robust permanent operation with low power consumption that we required. TheNetRS provides easy setup, handles continuous data well and also allows us to directly logmeteorological data in the receiver.”

Trimble’s NetRS features extremely rugged construction, low power consumption and dualpower ports with intelligent switching. Its advanced communications control makes it easyto operate the receiver and manage data from a convenient location removing the need fora local computer. Following problems such as power loss, the NetRS receiver can reload itslast known configuration settings eliminating the need to visit remote locations to manuallyreset the receiver.

The large internal memory of the receivers enables them to be deployed as permanentreference stations in the Antarctic where they will be monumented on the bedrock over anetwork spanning several hundred km. Recording parameters can be set up in advanceon a computer and data will be downloaded once per year. When 2-3 years worth of datahas been collected, it will then be analysed in scientific-level GPS processing software andultimately used to produce maps of present-day ice mass change.

Matt concludes, “We’ve been impressed by the high level of support from KOREC and alsofrom Trimble through UNAVCO, but ultimately on a project like this, the greatest challengesare deploying the instruments in cold environments, - especially given that we are trying tomeasure with a precision and accuracy of much less than 1mm/yr - and powering them.Indeed, the power systems we are deploying in the Antarctic cost more than the GPS!”

*UNAVCO is a non-profit membership-governed consortium, facilitates geoscience research and education using geodesy

Costain select Trimble Integrated Surveying Solution for high profileBelvedere Waste Project

KOREC is pleased to announce that Maidenhead based civil engineers, Costain, have purchased a combination of Trimble R8 GNSSreceivers and Trimble S6 Robotic Total Stations for use on the high profile Riverside Resource Recovery Facility* currently under constructionat Belvedere in South-East London. These KOREC supplied and supported instruments will help Costain to deliver the main buildings,jetties, roads and offices for the £350 million project which is being developed by Cory Environmental and built by Swiss plant constructioncompany Von Roll Inova.

“We need instruments that are reliable, flexible and easy to use,” explains Costain’s Survey Manager, Stuart Fagg. “Providing our surveyorswith a Trimble integrated solution means streamlined data handling and less time in the office. Key to this is the ability to switch betweenoptical and GPS instruments with a common user interface, in this case, Trimble TSC2 data loggers running Survey Controller software.

Trimble GPS antenna shrouded in a radome to protect againstthe build up of snow. Below is the yellow Trimble box containingthe receiver and battery.

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The Trimble S6 was selected for its speed, range and accuracy



KOREC and Trimble News

KOREC’s Blog is well worth a visit for all the latest news, opinion and technical tips.www.korecgroup.com/blog

Partners in Crime!

KOREC has further consolidated its position as a market leading provider of incident investi-gation solutions, with the announcement of a new distribution partnership with VisualStatement, a Trimble company specialising in collision reconstruction software.KOREC willoffer sales and support throughout the UK and Ireland for Visual Statement’s FX3 Premium(Crash) and FX3 CSI Advanced (Crime) software solutions.

Visual Statement FX3 Premium The ultimate tool for accident reconstruction offering everything from diagramming, easyimport of total station data, momentum analysis, calculations and SMAC (Simulation Modelof Automobile Collisions) simulations to animations (2D or 3D).Visual Statement FX3 CSI Advanced FX3 CSI Advanced provides users with a quick and easy way of animating the events of acrime. Using the animation system allows investigators to display and animate bullet trajectories,line-of-sight and easily display accurate posesfor victims or other involved persons.

Calling all existing Visual Statement Users

Here at KOREC we are delighted to be thenew distributors of Visual Statement soft-ware in the UK and Ireland and are keen toassist existing and potential users in anyway we can. Our starting point will see usaiming to forge the best possible linksbetween Visual Statement and you, theusers. Following on from our chats withSteve Green of West Yorkshire Police, whochaired and organised the last VisualStatement User Group, KOREC is pleased totake over this role and will host the nextmeeting at the end of February (TBC). If youwould like to be included on our emailing listfor any information on this event, pleasecontact me, Colin Powell, directly [email protected]

Example from Visual Statement’s Crime software solution

From left to right, James Pittman (Trainer on Visual Statementsoftware), Colin Powell, (KOREC Survey Sales Consultant,Midlands), Dwight Ergang (Visual Statement Sales), MatthewLock (KOREC Survey Sales Consultant, North)

Costain continued

Having a single intuitive software programfor all the survey work immediately reducesthe learning curve for our engineers which isthe first step in cutting out time consumingerrors and rework. We are using almostevery aspect of Survey Controller from theeasy ‘drag and drop’ copying of our csvand dxf files from PC to logger, to the handydrop down menu with pictures for prede-fined prism types. This simple but excellentfeature means that having 3 or 4 targets outthere, all at different heights, is no longer anissue – a tap on the controller selects theone we are working with. However, the realbonus for us is the colour map display. Wecan check and view a point in real timebefore we store it, add attribute informationto points, edit elevations, zoom in and out ofthe map to check gridlines and piling andverify where we are and which way we arepointing – all the things that give us instantanswers on site and cut back on trips to theoffice and lengthy phone calls. The mapreally is the focal point and I haven’t seenanything else that even comes close to it.”

Stuart is also keen to point out that both theTrimble R8 GPS and S6 Robots must deliverindividually as well as being part of anoverall solution. The R8 is being used formultiple tasks including topo and verification surveys, barge positioning and checking theheight of quay walls along the MedwayEstuary to enable successful loading andunloading from barges. Initially it was alsoused in conjunction with Trimble’s VRS NowService. The speed and ease of usingTrimble VRS enabled Costain to spot imme-diately on arrival at the site that the originalcontrol was out by around 2m and rectifythe problem without costly delays.

Costain selected the S6 Robotic TotalStations for their speed, range and accuracy.Senior Land Surveyor on the jetty works, IanCampbell, reports that the S6’s high preci-sion has been invaluable for a range of jobson the site. “ A 360 degree prism ensuresthat the S6 has been able to track us withmm accuracy from every angle. Not onlyare we getting the precision we require, butthe long reflectorless range, often in excessof 150m, means that our engineers cancarry out work from the safety of dry landrather than a rocking barge.”

Stuart Fagg concludes “WasteManagement is Costain’s fastest growingsector and the company is already partici-pating in the £398 million GreaterManchester waste PFI project. The awardof the Belvedere contract will position usexactly where we want to be – as leadingcontenders for all future opportunities in thewaste sector. We have a long standingrelationship with KOREC and know that theirSpectra, Nikon and Trimble instruments, allof which are being used on this site, willprovide the rugged and reliable performancethat a project of this stature demands.”



Surveying Solutions & LaserScanning Sales

Colin Powell (Midlands): T: 07774 239125

Matthew Lock (North): T: 07974 255597

Gavin McDonald (South East): T: 07786 118435

Ryan Bowles (South West): T: 07771 517493

Sean Higgins (Ireland): T: 00 353 868 066477

Mark Poveda (Ireland): T: 00 353 866 005252

Trimble Geo-Spatial DaysTrimble’s fully equipped Geo-SpatialVehicle will be in the UK in earlyFebruary and we will be hosting aseries of demonstration days atKOREC’s Huntingdon office. Thissystem is ideal for GIS / AssetManagement, Pavement Inspectionsand Mobile Surveys. For full detailsplease visit the News and Eventssection at www.korecgroup.com

Visual Statement User Group This meeting will be hosted byKOREC at the end of February (TBC).For further information, please con-tact [email protected]

Infrarail 13th – 15th April 2010 will find us onStand 900 at the NEC, Birmingham,exhibiting a full range of KORECmachine control, survey and mappingsolutions for rail. This will also be theperfect opportunity to come and talkto us about ournewly availableGEDO CE TrackMeasuring Device

Technical Support

Stop Press....Just as we were going to press, Trimble announced several exciting pieces of news:

Trimble S8 – new models launched to expand market opportunities for the most advancedoptical surveying instrument available.

Trimble S6 – now includes the long-range EDM performance of Trimble DR Plus technology,which provides direct reflex measurements at more than double the range of previousmodels.

Trimble S3 – option of new Autolock and servo-only models with an on-board control panelfor streamlined performance in the field.

Trimble VX Spatial Station – now features the long-range EDM performance of Trimble DRPlus technology.

….and finally, after many years of faithful service, it’s time to say goodbye to our original DRtotal stations, the 5500 and 5600 which will be discontinued on March 31, 2010 andreplaced by the new and powerful Trimble S3 range. Of course every cloud has a silverlining, please call your local Survey Sales Consultant for the best deals on 5500/5600instruments! For full details on all of the following, why not sign up for our survey e-newsletter via our homepage at www.korecgroup.com

Hints and TipsTips from KOREC’s Technical Support Team have been coming thick and fast lately, somuch so, that we’ve decided to dedicate a special ‘techtips’ category on our blog, found atwww.korecgroup.com/blog. Visit us now for further information on all of the following, eachof which are headed ‘SYNCHRONIZE Survey Tip’:

Trimble Certification ProgramsHave you ever wanted to have official recognition foryour Trimble survey product knowledge and your abilityto use Trimble products effectively? Well now you can.Find out more on Trimble Certification Programs on theKOREC blog.

FREE Web-Based Tutorial CoursesVisit our blog again and then follow the Trimble linkto the page where you can click on the “FREE”TUTORIALS icon on the bottom left of the screen.Our Technical Director, Oliver Brooks, states that theIntroduction to GPS and GNSS ones are very useful.

Also visit our blog for answers on all of the following: Top Tip 1Can I set Bluetooth wireless technology to turn onautomatically after I reset a TSC2 / Trimble CUcontroller that is running the Trimble Access software?

Top Tip 2How do I configure the R6/R8 internal radio as arepeater while performing a rover survey?

Top Tip 3Trimble Survey Controller / Trimble Access SoftwareHow can I add a control code to a point?How can I enter multiple codes for one point?

New AppointmentKOREC is committed to providing supportand technical expertise for users of ourequipment which is why we are delighted toannounce the appointment of Richard Selbyto a newly created role of Training Manager.

Richard, who is a Trimble Certified Trainerand has been with KOREC for 4 years, willinitially be focusing on the development ofclassroom based courses, courses relatingto specific Trimble products and genericsurvey and setting out courses. For fullinformation on our Technical Support andTraining, please visit www.korecgroup.com Richard Selby, KOREC’s new Training Manager

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