Life changes lead us to change our cities too. Infrastructural city changes start mainly from changes in utilities. We are not aware of these utility changes because they are not visible.
Building a new house on the street, changing telecom cables to fiber optics or putting power lines from air to underground means change in infrastructure. Like any other structure, the change in utilities must be also planned. Planning utilities is even more complicated than other structure because we simply cannot see them. Despite the standards and rules our utility maps are still not reliable. Often utility maps have the general location of a power line but not the exact location of the cable. Damaging a cable or gas line can be hazardous and cause big costs.
Similar to topological surveying, we also want to have highly accurate utility surveying. Utility surveying means detection of the utility and mapping the utility. The traditional way of utility mapping is by using electro Magnetic Locators (EML) or Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). Detected utilities are marked on the road surface with spray paints and a surveyor collects the points that were marked with GNSS or TPS.
Mapping utilities in this way requires high experience. Interpretation of the location and direction of utilities on field is very difficult. Also, collecting the points later on requires visiting the site again. If detection and collection are not done by the same crew, often the marks on the site can be confusing.
DX Office Vision is Leica Geosystems’ Utility post processing software that allows even non-experienced users to digitally map the detected underground utilities simply by converting Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data into CAD drawings.
DX Office Vision aims to make interpretation of GPR data easy to master for constructors and surveyors who are not familiar with how to interpret it. DX Office vision was developed to help both experienced and less experienced users deliver professional results.
DX Office Vision was developed by utility surveyors who know what is needed from a post processing software and developed a tool that delivers professional CAD files in 5 simple steps and 50% faster than the traditional way. The software does not require long trainings in order to be used, helping you to use your time and workforce more efficiently.
With DX Office Vision, users can visualise and manage survey data from Leica DS2000, open radar profiles, mark and add targets, and build strings by connecting the targets. Results can be exported to dxf for 3D CAD drawings.
DX Office Vision is so simple to learn that anyone from the crew can collect GPR data and post process it in less time with professional results.
Learn more about DX Office Vision here.