APPLICATION STORY

STONEX S9 GNSS MAKES SURVEYING

EASY FOR maughan + associates
Stephen Maughan, of Maughan + al boundary and contour survey
Associates, Ballina usually gets for a planning application. “I was
in a survey company or does the surprised that I had it completed
smaller surveying jobs with a total in the field in 40 minutes and I
station, but after receiving a email could see what I had surveyed
on the new Stonex S9 GNSS sur- on the screen”, said Stephen.
veying kit from Hitechniques he “The second job was smaller but
decided to try it out. As he had a trickier, it was two parcels of land
couple of surveys to do, it seemed Simple pictorial instructions make divided by a large shrub and tree
a good opportunity, and with a getting started easy hedge. If I did it with a total sta-
hire rate of €50 + VAT per day tion it would have required a trav-
Survey the points are co-ordi-
the cost didn’t seem extravagant. erse between the two, but with the
nated to ITM grid as you survey.
S9 I was able to get both fields
The datalogger connects by Blue- on the same survey just by walk-
tooth to the receiver and it clips to ing from one field to the next”.
the lightweight carbon fibre pole
so there is no cabling to interfere
with the view of the survey on the
screen. Also, all commands are
entered through the touchscreen
making it even easier to navigate
the menus. The on-board software
is by Carlson who are renowned for
The finished survey transferred
their intuitively designed interface. easily to Autocad
Stonex S9 GNSS with receiver and
Having satisfied himself that he
datalogger
Back in the office, to finish the
The kit was delivered by An Post projects, the instructions said
and Stephen tried it out on a test to export an XYZ file that could
piece first to see if he could man- be used in a mapping or model-
age it. With the simple pictorial ling package, but Stephen found
instructions giving a screen-by- that there was also a DXF output
screen instruction it was up and that imported directly, with lay-
running within a matter of minutes. ering, into Autocad which suited
him perfectly. He was then able
Because there is a SIM card in the to add the finer detail and finish
unit it connects to the internet and the planning application drawing.
downloads the point corrections in Touch screen datalogger and on-
real-time so that you can see im- screen image of survey “I hired the kit for 3 days in total,
mediately what the error in each learnt how to use it and completed
knew what he was doing with the two surveys” , said Stephen. “All-
point is as you survey it, usually
kit, Stephen took it to the first job,
about 10mm error. And since the in-all a very satisfying experience”
a 2 acre field that required the usu-
corrections are from Ordnance
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