The world renowned Fire Service College has chosen the Leica Builder 306 total station from SCCS to help them with a variety of positioning tasks on their campus at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The Leica Builder was chosen because of its simplicity to use by the non-surveyor. First task will be to support the development of a new training centre and the...
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Cambridge University Adopt Laser Scanning Technology
SCCS are pleased to have won the order to supply a new Leica C10 Laser Scanner to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. After a long procurement process the scanner was supplied in the summer and will be used across the Department’s archaeology sites, including an upcoming Field Study in Bosnia. Pictured (L-R) are David... -
SCCS secures major order to upgrade all surveying instruments for Greenhatch Group
Author David Price Publication Immediately Eaton Socon 12th July 2013 – SCCS the UK’s largest independent surveying equipment distributor is pleased to announce that it has secured the contract to upgrade all of the surveying instruments of Greenhatch Group. The order is believed to be the largest of its type in the UK in 2013 and sees the Derbyshire based... -
Preventing GNSS Interference – the work goes on
Following the GNSS Interference, Detection, and Mitigation (IDM) conference at the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory near London, two industry experts on GNSS interference and jamming will lead a GNSS Jamming & Interference: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions Conference later this month. As the surveying world becomes ever more reliant upon GNSS signals this research becomes ever more important. A marked increase in incidents of GNSS jamming and interference has raised the profile of their effects on users and their equipment. Equipment. Whether unintended or intentional, in the military domain or civil environments, these incidents have raised concerns among GNSS manufacturers and users about how to avoid or mitigate the adverse phenomena. Continue reading → -
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During the night of 14 May 300,000 m3 of rock broke off the Valegion mountain and crashed down 1,000 m to the valley floor in the Swiss canton of Ticino, near the village of Preonzo. Thanks in part to Leica Geosystems’ Deformation Monitoring solution GeoMoS local authorities were able to evacuate the valley’s industrial zone and to close the A2...