KOREC are once again pleased to be supporting the successful seminar series GeoDATA. This series of seminars is organised by the GeoInformation Group and is FREE to attend, this year the content focuses on data sharing, and KOREC’s own GIS experts will be hosting a seminar on Wireless Data Transfer, and it’s relevance to GIS. Richard Gauchwin and Martyn Palmer of KOREC will both be attending the UK seminars, and Brock Ryder will be representing KOREC in Dublin. Their seminar topic is titled ‘Wireless Data Sharing – A Journey Too Far?’ Sharing Data between Field Workers and Corporate GIS Systems… Read More

When it comes to mapping in difficult conditions, Trimble’s ProXRT GNSS system comes out on top! Faced with a hire customer who needed to carry out a survey of a densely vegetated and overgrown path, KOREC Ireland’s Brock Ryder refused to be beaten when even the ever reliable Trimble’s GeoXT hand held mapping system could only record 30% of the path’s features. Barth Warren or Warren Engineering was undertaking a footpath survey for National Parks and Wildlife in Kerry to tender for reinstatement work  which demanded the recording of a range of features from bridge crossings and look outs, to… Read More

Regular visitors to our website and readers of Insite will already be familiar with the features of our best-selling layout tool the Trimble LM80. At the end of last year, supported by Trimble’s top LM80 specialists who flew in from America and Europe, our KOREC Sales Consultants hit the road for a week to demonstrate its benefits to as many of you as possible.  Following our end of year LM80 ‘Blitz’ we’ve decided to catch up with a few customers who have been using it and from time to time will post their thoughts here on the blog. First up… Read More

Trimble VRS Now is now able to provide full GPS & GLONASS coverage throughout Great Britain, ensuring full RTK network correction data is available. Based on the unrivalled Trimble VRS technology, users can access a full GPS & GLONASS Network correction data solution.  Trimble VRS Now is the first and only service providing this capability in Great Britain and Ireland. This GNSS capability provides users with correction data for the maximum number of satellites, thereby aiding operation in areas of limited ‘sky’ visibilty such as urban canyons or high foliage environments.  Using both GPS & GLONASS satellites can improve productivity… Read More

Undeterred by the heavy snow, early February saw the English Heritage team of Trevor Pearson, Peter Topping and David Field on-site in Wiltshire collecting data for a 1:1000 scale survey of the archaeological earthworks of Stonehenge and its immediate environs and a 1:2500 archaeological survey of the wider landscape. The team carried out the 1:1000 survey using Trimble’s R8 GNSS receiver with VRS Now Service (providing instant access to RTK corrections across Great Britain without the need for a base station) and a Trimble mapping GeoXT hand held GPS for the second survey. Head of Technical Survey and Graphics (Archaeology)… Read More