Ixsea has announced a series of deliveries of LANDINS, the high-end INS positioning system specifically designed for mobile mapping and route mapping applications in dense urban areas, where GPS quality is often poor and the need for geo-referenced information is most critical.
Yves Paturel, director for Ixsea land and air, said: "We are proud to help survey companies and academic institutions receive rapid geo-referenced data by extending their operational capacities when GPS is in difficulty. We have been able to demonstrate repeatedly the performance of our LANDINS in very difficult areas such as the heart of the old cities of Europe, where GPS drop-outs and multipaths are frequently experienced by users."
Among the most recent deliveries are:
- StratAG research group, based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), is constructing a state-of-the-art mobile mapping system based around the latest high-grade GPS/IMU, Riegl VQ-250 LiDAR sensors and eight multispectral cameras. Dr Tim McCarthy, of NUIM, said: "LANDINS was chosen after public tender for its high performance and competitive pricing."
- LANDINS is now used in geoVISAT's VISAT™ system, an innovative and disruptive technology for creating and updating 3-D GIS databases very quickly and inexpensively. GeoVISAT, a separate business unit within Vansteelandt bvba, has entered into a strategic partnership with AMS (patent holder of the VISAT technology) and holds the exclusive rights to deploy the VISAT technology throughout Europe.
- LANDINS combines a high-grade inertial navigation system, highly accurate position, precise timing and a very fast output rate in one unique box and provides data for real-time mobile scanning engineering survey. M3DM, based in the Netherlands, which specialises in highly accurate mobile road mapping, has ordered LANDINS INS. M3DM's road survey system provides absolute accuracy close to conventional static road measurements. LANDINS compensates the vehicle motion and provides absolute position and height of the scanner in real-time.
- SITECO INFORMATICA, the leading Italian company for mobile mapping and surveying, along with asset management applied to road networks, purchased a LANDINS system for its excellent positioning capabilities after a successful test campaign.
