KOREC Group GeoSpatial Archives

KOREC welcomes Geospatial Sales Consultant, Eugen Niculae to our team in Ireland

28th March 2018

Combining a high level of technical nous with a user-friendly delivery (Eugen is a part time lecturer at the acclaimed Dublin Institute of Technology) our new KOREC Geospatial Sales Consultant also brings extensive practical experience to the team, having worked on site in a range of survey disciplines as well as at the sharp end of Murphy Surveys as a former Quality and Technical Manager specialising in site and office workflows.

A renowned Chartered Geomatics Surveyor, Eugen is a professional member of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Elected member of the Geomatics Professional Group in SCSI from 2011 to 2013 and from 2015 to present, where he adapted the RICS’s “Scale” and “Map Projections and Scale Factors” client guides for SCSI and wrote “OSGM15 – Geoid Changes for Ireland” SCSI client guide.

Amongst all of this Eugen also volunteers his time with Coder Dojo, a global network of free computer programming clubs for young people. When he does get any spare time, he enjoys a spot of swimming.

We are excited and proud to have Eugen on board with us at KOREC as a Geospatial Solutions Consultant in Dublin, Ireland. We are sure that with all his knowledge and experience, he will be a great asset to KOREC and our customers.

Welcome to KOREC Group team, Eugen!

GeoDATA on 30th March, Ireland

24th February 2017

We are excited to be attending GeoDATA, Ireland on the 30th March.

GeoDATA, Ireland will be held at Croke Park, Dublin and is a one-day exhibition in conjunction with a dual-track seminar programme for professionals involved with geospatial data, software and services.

This event is free to attend and offers attendees access to educational talks, an exhibition showcasing the latest geospatial products and services and the opportunity to network with others throughout the day.

Meet the KOREC team on our exhibition stand and attend our presentation, where we will be discussing the Trimble Catalyst – a groundbreaking new service which turns your smartphone into a high precision, software defined GNSS receiver.

KOREC Photo Competition

3rd February 2017

We were so impressed with our photo competition entries in last year’s contest that we’ve decided to make it a monthly occurrence! Yep, you guessed right, that means someone is going to win a prize every month!

We know there’s no end of photos out there and we are already seeing some great ones coming through on Twitter. All you need to do is upload your entry HERE, we will announce a winner on the first of every month and they’ll receive their very own KOREC goody bag, filled with lots of treats! All entries will automatically be entered in to our annual competition where you can win £/€500 KOREC Vouchers and £/€150 in Amazon vouchers.

So get your cameras out, dust off those lenses and get snapping! We love to see you out and about with your kit, or you may have a great data shot you’d like to share – just remember to let us know the details of how you collected it!

K-MATIC updates

14th December 2016

K-MATIC, KOREC’s in-house software division, has been particularly busy lately! Here’s what they’ve been up to:
K-Mobile Android has a new feature – on demand map data.

Future releases of K-Mobile Android data capture software will include a new feature as standard – on demand map data. Created to keep workers productive in the field, this feature requires a single button tap to pull down the OS MasterMap (for licensed users) or OS OpenData map data that’s required for working in that particular area. Irish Grid and ITM map data can also be pulled down.

New Launch – K-Portal

K-Portal is a completely secure K-MATIC hosted web based geospatial asset registry.
Designed to take the headache out of managing and storing data collected by multiple field workers, K-Portal renders all collected data, and the software functionality required to manage it, accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.

This means that permitted users, such as site/asset managers, no longer need to return to the office to check received data or allocate jobs – they can do it simply from a laptop with an internet connection.

K-Portal functionality includes:

Allocation of work orders to mobile devices running K-Mobile field software
Retrieval and viewing of completed work orders and other geospatial data
Export of data and custom reports
Creation of dashboard charts to show day-to-day progress / key project status metrics

K-MATIC specialises in, amongst other things, customising K-Mobile software to be application specific. No job is too small or too large for consideration.

For further information, please contact your KOREC mapping consultant.

Trimble acquires WeoGeo

18th July 2014

Trimble recently acquired WeoGeo, the company that launched an online geospatial data marketplace, as well as technology for managing spatial data.

Trimble released this statement about the acquisition; “WeoGeo is a natural fit for Trimble, offering Geospatial professionals with data and tools that enable richer visualization and understanding of projects. Access to up to date imagery data can improve decision-making while also enhancing the end deliverables that are created for their clients. As well, Trimble opens a new avenue for the WeoGeo customers to have direct access to the latest in Geospatial Technology used in multiple applications across many industries where mapping and imagery data is being utilized today.”

WeoGeo can help you to easily manage your location-data, no matter what the format of the data. The WeoGeo library also offers an easy-to-use location data content management service. These two sevices work together to allow you to recognise the full potential of your geospatial and location based data.

For more information visit the WeoGeo website.

eCognition Review in LIDAR News

14th July 2014

The latest issue of LIDAR news features a 3-page review of Trimble’s eCognition software by Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne.

Jarlath is a researcher with the University of Vermont’s Spatial Analysis Laboratory. He has over 15 years’ experience with GIS and remote sensing and is globally recognised as a leading expert on the design and application of Object-Based Image Analysis Systems for automated land cover mapping.

eCognition emerged onto the geospatial scene in the early 2000’s and gained notoriety for being the first commercial Object-Based Image Analysis platform. Jarlath discusses the strengths of the software and what sets it apart from all other geospatial software packages.

Read the full review on page 70 in the latest version of LIDAR News.

Update: Trimble Business Center: v3.21

5th July 2014

Trimble recently introduced the latest version of its powerful office software suite used by surveyors and geospatial professionals for processing and analysing geospatial data—Trimble® Business Center. Version 3.21 introduces new coordinate reference systems and a specialised Advanced Drafting module, which enables faster project turnaround and better decision making.

The optional Advanced Drafting module adds highly customisable templates and simplified selection tools, which are designed to reduce the time required to generate high-quality deliverables, such as geospatial maps and corridor cross-sections. Now, professionals working on road, pipeline and railway projects can achieve significant efficiency gains through the software’s new automated cross-section plotting functionality.

Trimble Dimensions 2014 – save the date!

19th May 2014

It’s that year again! 2014 is another Trimble Dimensions year, the company holds the conference every two years in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trimble Dimensions User Conference is the premier for geospatial professionals wishing to stay on top of the most current information on a wide range of technologies. This educational, networking and hands-on training conference provides insight into how you can achieve greater success in your workplace.

Save the date in your diary and register your interest now on the Trimble Dimensions site.

KOREC Opinion…. on Mobile Spatial Imaging 2

16th May 2014

Surveying time is at a premium and this means that the less time spent measuring large sites accurately and effectively can only be a good thing. Mobile spatial imaging systems use a combination of cameras, high speed laser scanners, precise INS (Inertial Navigation System) compensated GNSS and accurate DMI (Distance Measurement Indicator) to produce fully synchronised point clouds and imagery at speeds of up to 100 km/hr.

Trimble offers two such systems, the MX8 and MX2.

The MX2 has the option of a single 360 degree camera and although its laser
scanners are not as fast as the MX8’s, it is highly portable and can be swapped
between vehicles in minutes. This flexibility, allied to low power consumption and simple communication using a ruggedised laptop, makes the MX2 a very attractive proposition. The MX8 is Trimble’s premium high-end system offering ultra-fast laser scanners and up to seven cameras housed within a weather-proof pod which is semi-permanently mounted on its host vehicle.

Where mobile spatial imaging systems really shines is in providing data for ‘intelligent’ software to automatically extract assets and information as well as provide change detection information. Trimble’s Trident software allows data such as line-work, signs, digital terrain models and structure clearances to be obtained and exported to a CAD or GIS platform in a very efficient manner.

To learn more about KOREC’s mobile spatial imaging systems, read the latest version of Altus Volo.

Trimble Dimensions 2014 – Call for Papers

13th May 2014

In November this year, Trimble will once again be hosting their bi-annual conference; Trimble Dimensions in Las Vegas. Every year Trimble hold a prestigious competition aimed at students worldwide. They are asked to submit a paper outlining an application and use of Geospatial solutions. The student competition is an opportunity for Trimble to engage with the next generation of surveyors on an international level.

Last year David Hyland, from Co. Cork, was the first Irish person to win the competition. David was flown to Las Vegas to attend the Trimble Dimensions 2012 Conference where he presented his innovative work on An Assessment of Ocean Tide Loading on Network RTK and Mitigation Methods in Ireland. A brand new Trimble R10 was also donated to his institution; The Dublin Institute of Technology.

We’d love to see another KOREC customer win the prize again this year.

Further details and how to enter the competition can be found on the Trimble Dimensions webpage.

Visit us at GEO Business

29th April 2014

GEO Business is a brand new geospatial event designed for anyone involved in collecting, storing, processing and delivering geospatial data. The GEO Business event takes place on the 28th and 29th of May at the Building Design Centre in London.

The event takes the form of an international trade show exhibition alongside a comprehensive and information conference. There’s also live workshops and demonstrations featuring the latest geospatial technology.

Experts from KOREC will be around on the two days to support and man the Trimble stand. You will be able to see the latest innovations from Trimble, including the recently realised Trimble V10 Spatial Imaging Rover and the exciting UX5 Aerial Imaging Rover. The Trimble TX8 will also be on display, it’s one of the highest quality time-of-flight scanners on the market today; faster, more rugged and with a longer range than any previous Trimble scanner.

You can find us on stand K1 under the Trimble banner.

KOREC Opinion …on Mobile Spatial Imaging

16th April 2014

KOREC’s Mathew Lock makes the case for point clouds and in particular, gathering this data with a mobile spatial imaging system.

Early in my survey career the various field teams used to brag about how long it took them to fill the standard memory of the Geodimeter 600, a mere 1000 points at the time. On large opencast collieries or quarries it was pretty tough going, but in Autolock mode, in a built up area, it wasn’t long before we needed to upgrade the memory.

As speed and technology have advanced so has productivity and it is easy to forget how much high quality measured data our profession can now collect in a very small amount of time. From thousands of points in a day with Robotic Total Stations and GNSS to millions of points a minute with high speed laser scanners. Although we are still impressed by laser scanning data, we are beginning to take point clouds more and more for granted. As software and computer manufactures upgrade their products, point clouds become more and more accepted as conventional survey data, manipulated by 3D CAD technicians into whatever deliverables the client wants.

The logical next step is speeding up the collection of point cloud and imagery, which is why KOREC has invested in Trimble’s premium mobile spatial imaging system, the MX8.

Carry on reading in the Spring 2014 edition of Mensura.

Breakfast meeting in Belfast

27th March 2014

Join us next week for the Launch of the revolutionary Trimble V10 Imaging Rover.

We would like to invite all Surveyors, Engineers, Architects and anyone else that may be interested in seeing the latest technological advances from Trimble, to a Breakfast meeting on 3rd April.

The Trimble V10 unlocks a whole new workflow to complete traditional survey work. Challenging projects such as tree cover, little control, mixed terrain, heavy traffic, features behind fences, and a limited window for performing the survey, can now be easily accomplished with Trimble VISION at the rod.

We’ll be showcasing the Trimble V10 on 3rd of April at our first breakfast meeting of the year. Being held at the iconic Titanic venue in Belfast. The day will start at 8.30 with a hearty breakfast.

After breakfast, there will be presentations and demo data sets on the Trimble V10 Imaging Rover, Trimble R10 GNSS Receiver, and Trimble S8 Robotic Total Station ending with a hands on session and finishing around 11am.

GeoDATA 2014

19th March 2014

We are pleased to announce that we will be attending, not one but four GeoData events throughout 2014. GeoDATA is a free event that brings together key figures from within the geospatial industry to talk about the latest technological innovations, challenges and how to get the most out of geospatial data.

You will be able to meet the KOREC team at Dublin, Belfast, Manchester and London.

Geospatial experts from both surveying and mapping teams at KOREC will be in attendance to exhibit the latest technology and discuss your geospatial needs. You will also be able to find out more about KOREC’s in-house software development company – K-Matic. The first mapping software release from K-Matic is K-Mobile, a fully customisable data capture software that has the capability to run on all Trimble Windows Mobile hardware platforms including the Trimble Yuma tablet and the newly launched Trimble Geo7X handheld. K-Mobile is the result of KOREC’s 15 years of mapping software development experience combined with extensive customer research.

We will also be presenting at each event on the brand new Trimble V10 Imaging Rover, the V10 has the ability to measure and capture forensic and crash scene data so that the police can clean up the site quicker and then work with the data back in the office.

KOREC launches ‘Mensura’

12th September 2013

We are delighted to announce the publication of our new geospatial newsletter, Mensura.

Most of you will have been used to receiving Synchronise or Sub-Dio, the surveying and mapping newsletters from KOREC. Our first issue of Mensura starts the KOREC transition from survey and mapping to geospatial.

For Trimble, it apparently all started with the US Army corps of Engineers. They informed Trimble that they don’t have surveyors and mappers – they have ‘people’ that today will use RTK accuracy equipment to measure positions to cm level and tomorrow, use a hand held GNSS receiver for a sub metre positioning task. This prompted the development from surveying and mapping to geospatial. But for Trimble, the term geospatial not only embraces these more traditional measuring roles but also includes the emerging ‘imaging’ and ‘scanning’ technologies and this will be reflected in Mensura.

Trimble’s vision of the future

1st August 2013

At our recent Aintree Technology day, Trimble’s Katherine Sandford provided an insight into the Trimble vision of the future. Moving away from the historical view to deliver generic data collection solutions, Trimble is now looking towards an ideal of a 3D virtual world made possible by fully interoperable application workflows, industry specific, and irrespective of technology platform. In a KOREC piece for GIS Professional magazine, we expand on this theme and take a closer look at Trimble’s vision of the future.

See Page 28

Link published with the permission of the editor and publisher and will only be active until the October issue of GiSPro.

For a free subscription go to www.pvpubs.com

London Mapping Showcase 2012

8th January 2013

At the start of December the London Mapping Festival held their 2012 Showcase at the home of cricket; Lord’s in London. The show is the UK’s largest, free to attend exhibition for the mapping and surveying community. The prestigious venue saw over 450 attendees, 48 exhibiting organisations and a full schedule of keynotes and master class presentations.

We were joined on our stand by partners from the UAV world; Gatewing and SenseFly. Both brought their unmanned aerial vehicles which received a lot of attention from guests. SenseFly displayed the brand new eBee, the successor to the Swinglet CAM which is to be released early 2013. While Gatewing had their flagship product the X100 .

Martyn Palmer and Abby Hunt from KOREC demonstrated the newly released Trimble Handhelds. The Juno 5 and GeoExplorer 5 were available to let attendees get hands on with. Visitors to the stand also had the opportunity to discuss Trimble’s data collection software and land mobile mapping products such as the Trimble MX8 Geospatial System.

KOREC Mapping Consultant Martyn Palmer also joined the line-up of master classes during the day. His presentation was an interesting insight into the UAV options available in today’s mapping market such as the one’s distributed by KOREC, the Aibot X6, the SenseFly Swinglet CAM and eBee and the Gatewing X100.

Trimble Dimensions 2010 – Leaving Las Vegas

11th November 2010

Well that’s it then, Trimble Dimensions 2010 was brought to a spectacular close last night with a glittering Gala Dinner. This year’s user conference has attracted over 2900 registered attendees from around the globe – 67 countries represented in all. The gala dinner provided guests with their last opportunity to put into practise their networking skills and reflect upon a fantastic week in Vegas.

Superimposed Mars Rover Opportunity on the rim of the Mars Victoria Crater - Image courtesy NASA/JPL/Caltech

The third and final day began with a keynote address from Dr Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project and ended with guests being treated to a stunning visual spectacle as performers from Cirque du Soleil defied gravity with a series of acrobatic displays – only in Vegas!

The KOREC customers at Dimensions have attended a wide range of seminars and hands-on training sessions including; visits to the off-site demonstration area for updates on the latest machine control systems from Trimble; mobile mapping – indoors and outdoors; solutions for BIM; and powerful alignment planning software solutions for road and rail projects. (If you are able to view YouTube videos, take a look at the Trimble Indoor Mobile Mapping video).

There was a moment of panic at the end of the conference though when I was told that one of our customers had thrown himself from the 108th floor of the Stratosphere. I am glad to say that it was planned and he was taking part in SkyJump Las Vegas – billed as the ‘Ultimate Freefall Experience’ (I have been promised the pictures for the blog!).

Speaking with our customers last night as they shared their individual perspectives on their week at Dimensions the overwhelming consensus seems to be that prior to the event they hadn’t fully appreciated just how many technologies and solutions Trimble were capable of providing. I think it is safe to say that their eyes have been opened this week! They have also enjoyed the opportunity to network with Trimble users from accross the globe, discussing how they use Trimble to improve their workflows.

The work that the Trimble team have put into the event has been incredible and thanks to them all our attendees are leaving Las Vegas with new ideas as to how the convergence of the Trimble technologies can help them to connect and collaborate to achieve their own success.

What’s the story?

10th February 2010

NCE, GW and Rail Engineer get the story from Trimble

The last couple of weeks has seen the KOREC Hungingdon office playing host to Trimble GeoSpatial’s Eric McCuaig who has been offering customised introductions to Trimble’s GeoSpatial Mobile Data Capture System. Along with potential UK users, Eric also took the time to present the system (and field some very intensive questioning) to key UK press contacts.

Booking Now….

20th January 2010

Trimble GeoSpatial systems are scalable and can be configured to your specific needs

We are now taking bookings for the KOREC / Trimble GeoSpatial Presentation days which will be running between the 1st and the 12th of February at KOREC’s Huntingdon Operations centre in Cambridgeshire.

…. and judging from recent ‘pohole alert’ reports in the media following the snow, there couldn’t be a better time to be looking at a system that’s perfect for Pavement Inspections, Mobile Survey and GIS & Asset Management.

Trimble’s GeoSpatial systems are incredibly flexible, with a variety of hardware and sensor choices available, which is why KOREC is inviting all companies who have an interest in the above applications to call and arrange a tailor made demonstration of the system during this period.

Vehicle mounted, Trimble’s GeoSpatial systems help you complete video logging, asset management, and mobile survey faster and more productively, accurately, and safely. A scalable solution, these systems offer automatic feature extraction, high accuracy long range lasers and are among the only mobile systems available where development work for both hardware systems integration and post-processing software can be done completely in-house, cutting out the need for any costly third party software developers.

Trimble’s GeoSpatial division have over twenty years of experience integrating GNSS and GNSS augmentation systems, inertial, DMI, cameras, laser scanners and other sensors into mobile mapping systems and have over 50 systems installed world-wide.

For further information on how to book a customised demonstration, please visit www.korecgroup.com/events, email marketing@www.korecgroup.com or phone 0845 603 1214.

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