Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad January 2017 Enhancing ... · mobile phones) Ease of Acquiring High Quality data – simplicity, connectivity, cost Shift towards non-traditional

Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad January 2017

John Whitehead | Trimble Geospatial

Enhancing Data Acquisition for Sound Decision Making Enabling Productivity Through Innovation

Overview

▪ Field Data Collection and Analysis : Technology Trends

▪ How is Trimble Enhancing Data Collection?

▪ Demonstration of Productivity Through Innovation

– SX10

– Trimble Catalyst

– Customization & Integration Case Study

– Focusing on Interoperability: Trimble Business Center Software

▪ Demand for Geospatial Data in more industries than ever before

▪ Transition to 3D & 4D, away from 2D, in

▪ Leveraging advancements in adjacent technology (Processing power of mobile phones)

▪ Ease of Acquiring High Quality data – simplicity, connectivity, cost

▪ Shift towards non-traditional collection methods

▪ Common processing platform for all types of geospatial data

▪ Rapid commoditization of traditional survey and mapping technologies

▪ Software Development Kits (SDK) usage on the rise

▪ Customization and Integration Required for Success

Field Collection to Analysis: Trends Driving Trimble’s Innovation

▪ Productivity Story – SX10 China (Field productivity, office productivity, reuse, unrelated project value)

▪ Productivity Story 2 – Catalyst: SW based GNSS engine that leverages the processing power of smart phones and can deliver survey and mapping grade accuracy (accuracy productivity, financial model productivity)

▪ Productivity Story 3 – Palm oil industry application (private sector underserved by geospatial technology, needed badly for sustainability purposes, ease of use, can create GIS layers without large amount of field work)

▪ A Common Platform for Innovation: Trimble Business Center

Enabling Productivity Through Innovation

Productivity Innovation – SX10

Trimble SX10 Scanning Total Station

▪ Innovative – True merging of high-speed scanning, enhanced

imaging and high accuracy surveying

▪ Familiar – Completely integrated into traditional surveying

workflows in the field AND office

▪ Versatile – Expand your business opportunities with a

single investment

AND THEN THERE WAS ONE!

Innovation to Redefine an Industry

▪ Lightning 3DM Scanning Technology

▪ Enhanced Trimble VISION

▪ Fully integrated field and office survey workflows

▪ Powerful office tools

Familiar Operation and Workflows

▪ Traditional Survey workflows

▪ Easy operation with Trimble Access field software

▪ Work seamlessly with all data in Trimble Business Center

Extreme Versatility

▪ Increase equipment utilization

▪ Reduce operational costs

▪ Expand into new opportunities

▪ One investment, unlimited applications

Land title and boundary surveys, land development

▪ Highlights – Familiar prism measurement of control

and boundary features – Versatility to capture high density scans of large

surfaces and difficult to reach areas as needed

▪ Benefits of SX10 – Capture more site detail and context in less time

▪ Encroachments on lot lines in more detail ▪ Save time for draftsmen via site visualization ▪ Quickly capture objects out of reach (eg overhead

utilities)

– Safely capture intersection detail without traffic control

– Avoid site revisit for missed details

Topographic Survey/General Survey

Topographic Survey/General Survey

‘’I thought there would be a huge learning curve but I think any of our party chiefs could be up and scanning the very first day..”

Paul Biehl, PLS

Roadway/Corridor Survey

“Intersection topo’s are amazing. Eliminate the need for traffic control and the need for assistants ‘playing frogger’ with traffic.”

Steaphan MacAulay

Roadway/Corridor Survey

“Intersection topo’s are amazing. Eliminate the need for traffic control and the need for assistants ‘playing frogger’ with traffic.”

Steaphan MacAulay

Infrastructure As-Built

Bridges, Dams, Tunnels ▪ Also Power Substations, Above-Ground Pipelines,

Comm Towers, Complex Structures

▪ Highlights

– As-Built Plans/Profiles, Inspection, Clearance

– Deformation Monitoring, Cracks Assessment

– Load Testing, 3D Modeling

▪ Benefits of SX10

– Rapid capture of rich asset information

– Reduce station setups and ability to capture data on inaccessible objects e.g. long bridge spans

– Complete geometrical information and visual documentation to enhance communication

Infrastructure As-Built

“Instead of physically shooting everything over the span of several hours you could scan in half the time and have a very accurate model to work with.”

Jeremy Innes, Senior Party Chief - WSP

▪ Changchun: more than 900 old buildings need repairs & whitewashing

▪ Our customer needed to measure the building façade area and local infrastructure data

▪ Technical requirements: Building façade, 5 cm accuracy

▪ Timeline given: 1 month

SX10 Case Study: Changchun Neighborhood Rehabilitation

▪ Time is a HUGE challenge: must finish the fieldwork in 10 days to save time for the office planning team.

▪ The traditional workflow is using total station, one crew (2 surveyors) can measure 3 buildings per day. If we use the traditional workflow, that will be 30 crews and 60 surveyors, it is huge cost.

▪ Utilizing the Trimble SX10 and Trimble TX8 scanner we can scan 60-70 buildings per day

▪ Process field data in Trimble Business Center Scanning Module skipping scan registration step because of SX10 workflow


Field data collection Point clouds registration

Points clouds export CAD drafting




Productivity Innovation – Trimble Catalyst: Software GNSS

The smartphone has evolved into a “universal tool”

▪ The emergence of the smartphone as a commonly used mobile tool providing new levels of

– Simple, easy to use, convenient and affordable

▪ Growing use of mobile spatial information from consumers to professionals

▪ Supported with rugged accessories to enable use in industrial applications driven off customers’ desire to use it as a universal tool

Trimble Vision - 2016

▪ Accurate Spatially enabled information everywhere for everyone and everything

Trimble Catalyst as a system: What is it?

▪ A Catalyst enabled application: has the Catalyst SoftGNSS receiver service, Trimble TerraFlex OR SDK

▪ The Trimble DA1 digital antenna

▪ Your subscription to a positioning service level

▪ A software-defined GNSS receiver

– Multi-frequency (L1 and L2), Multi-constellation (GPS and Galileo)

▪ Designed for embedding into Apps for mobile platforms (smartphones and tablets)

▪ Supported by a small, lightweight, high performance dual frequency antenna

Trimble Catalyst as a system: Three key components

Key Drivers of Catalyst’s Development

Simplicity Convenience Affordability

Ease of use

▪ Turn on anywhere in the world and operate

– With high accuracy

▪ Zero configuration with Trimble Apps

– Auto connect for project and map data via Trimble Connect/TerraFlex



Ease of use

▪ Automated connection to your project

– No data upload/download required

▪ Uses cell phone connection or the antenna for corrections

– No IP addresses to configure for Trimble correction services

– No decisions required on which network



Ease of use

▪ At start up automatically select the best

available correction service based on location and subscription level

– Global coverage for sub meter services using RTX

– VRS Network (real-time networks)

RTX cellular

(subject to cell coverage)

RTX satellite delivered



Ease of use

▪ Uses your smartphone

– Typically carried all the time

▪ Small, lightweight, highly portable antenna

– 130mm x 60mm (5.1” x 2.4”)

– Weighs only 300gm (11 oz)



Ease of use

▪ Enabled by a new business model

– Download the app

– Purchase the low cost antenna

– Subscribe to the required level of service

▪ Pay based on usage

▪ Provision to scale up/down with minimal capital expenditure

▪ Pay from operating expense as a part of a specific project

▪ Only required accessory is a low-cost digital antenna

Productivity Innovation – Customization & Integration for Palm Oil

• Low-tech Industry with HUGE challenges

with sustainability, efficiency of operations, cost controls, labor productivity and land rights

• Located in the equatorial belt, plantations cannot easily acquire aerial and satellite imagery due to cloud cover, consistently

• Decisions to Support with Geospatial Data: Fertilizer costs, Disease spread, Sustainability Actions, land leases and small holder sourcing

Slope (°) Slope (%) Effective density

5-10° 8.7-18 135-151

10-15° 18.0-27 151-153

15-20° 27.0-36 153-155

20-25° 36.0-47 155-158

Slope % Slope Deg Uncorrected

Distance (m)

Corrected Density

(palms/ha)

Corrected Distance

(m)

0 0 9.21 136 9.21

9 5 9.17 137 9.25

18 10 9.07 140 9.35

27 15 8.9 146 9.53

36 20 8.65 154 9.8

47 25 8.35 166 10.16

Density

(palms/ha)

Terraces Flat land

Palm Terrace Palm Row

120 10.4 7.9 9.81 8.5

136 9.3 7.9 9.21 7.98

148 8.5 7.9 8.83 7.65

160 7.9 7.9 8.5 7.36





Carbon Content Estimations

- 80/20 estimation of carbon ƒ(zpixel * xy area)

- Spatial properties of scientific carbon measurement (LiDAR)


Focusing on Interoperability: Trimble Business Center

Complete Survey Office Software Enabling Field to Finish Workflows with Confidence

Multi-sensor, Mixed Fleet-ready

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Geospatial World Forum, Hyderabad January 2017 Enhancing ... · mobile phones) Ease of Acquiring High Quality data – simplicity, connectivity, cost Shift towards non-traditional