REPORTER 39

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With the combined 3-D
Georadar and Measuring
Equipment SAGAS it is
possible to produce
subterranean maps from
just below the surface
and in high resolution,
ten times quicker. Here
the concept of the
automatically tracking
Leica Total Station
performs a real service.
The oldest hydro-electric
power station in Slovakia,
in the foothills of the
Carpathians, needed to
be renovated. The turbine
room had to be measured
exactly in order to increase
performance at the
plant. Success was
achieved with the DISTO
hand-held laser meter and
well-proven mining
surveying methods.
For the European Inter City
Express main rail axis,
Frankfurt-Mannheim, a
prefabricated underpass
had to be moved 23 metres.
Our solution was to use
the automatic target
recognizing Leica TCA 1800
Total Station, together with
the APS Win Software
package from Leica, which
were employed with great
success.
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A new national survey for
Colombia
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Precision of inclination for
machines and buildings
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Surveying on Television
A new survey of an
aspiring Latin-American
developing country
provided the basis for a
new survey and map in
the form of an interactive
geographic
information system.
In this report one of
the engineers involved
describes the basic
surveying work.
The high precision
determination of inclination
and monitoring of
components and
buildings is very simple
with the Leica NIVEL 20.
Two concrete examples
taken from the fields of
mechanical engineering
and building construction
prove this once
again.
Leica equipment is playing an active role in the
Republic of Belarus in creating new bases for
surveying. On the occasion of a Leica service
training course for White Russian RSTC ECOMIR
specialists, a report appeared on television
about the important work carried out by
surveyors.
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Welcome to the
FIG Congress!
Editorial
Dear Reader,
Here is issue 39 of our Leica
customers’ magazine.
It has been compiled from
contributions by specialists
practically involved with
surveying, building and
mechanical engineering.
These contributions show
you how your professional
colleagues in other
countries, on other
continents and in various
fields of activity, approach
and accomplish their tasks.
I can really imagine that
you in your every-day work
are also confronted with
problems which are
particularly difficult, and
therefore especially novel
and challenging as well.
Would that not be worth a
few lines to the editors of
the Reporter together with a
photograph? The Leica
Reporter is the most widely
read magazine in our
branch in the whole world
and is published in five
languages to provide an
international exchange of
experience. A quarter of a
million readers would also
like to hear more about
your interesting tasks and
targets. Your suggestions
will reach me very quickly
by e-mail on:
Waltraud.Strobl@email.
leica.com. Many thanks,
Waltraud Strobl
Brand & Image Planning
Manager
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