As a Magellan Professional dealer Ormston Technology, is proud to announce that the Magellan brand name has changed to Ashtech with immediate effect.
Ashtech has brought a remarkable legacy of technology, precision and innovation but the new Ashtech is a venture for the 21st Century.
Tim Pybus, Managing Director of Ormston Technology says:
“This is a very exciting time for us. Ashtech had a fantastic reputation for excellent quality innovative GNSS products. We are planning a number of initiatives to help improve the way that GNSS users can operate in the field, I am sure they will come to find we provide the best on the market.”
Ormston Technology has a series of ‘Field to Finish’ events coming up this year. For information, please email info@ormtec.co.uk or call 01482 677655.
About Ashtech:Recognised as an industry innovator, Ashtech has been developing GNSS technology for more than 20 years. Ashtech is the creator of BLADETM technology, which introduces a unique patented method to the market using multiple GNSS constellations for high-accuracy positioning. Ashtech has also introduced the MobileMapper® series of products for GIS and mapping, as well as the ProflexTM 500 and PromarkTM series – the well recognised GNSS Land Survey product line currently on the market.
Ormston Technology works in partnership with Sibelco UK to provide the professional GPS products and support required to perform with industrial minerals which are developed and used within everyday products found in the home.
Sibelco UK provides advanced industrial minerals to customers around the globe across a broad range of industries including ceramics, glass, foundry, sports & leisure and paper. The Company adds real value to customers businesses through a combination of premium quality products, technical support and environmental leadership.
Sibelco’s products form a starting point for windows in the home to coffee cups. As an essential component of modern life, Sibelco UK sees it as their responsibility to ensure that these natural resources are used wisely.
The Land Survey team at Sibelco prefer to use the Magellan technology provided by Ormston Technology simply because the Company offers high-quality, technologically advanced systems that are extremely cost effective. Customers of Ormston Technology profess that we have exceeded their service expectations and we are delighted to be able to report that.
Patrick Andrew, Land Surveyor, Sibelco UK says:
“I have really enjoyed working with the ProMark500TM equipment. It is robust, easy to use and with the OS Net correction, very accurate. It performs well at all of our quarrying sites from Scotland to Surrey and some of our pits are deep with steep faces and batters. It is very reassuring to be able to go to a site and not worry about the location and security of the base station and, because there is no need for a base station it means that the cost of the equipment is substantially reduced in comparison to other GPS manufacturers. The service provided by Ormston Technology is very good and we receive updates to the various programmes and interfaces on a regular basis”.
To find out how Ormston Technology can work for your business, please call us on 01482 677655 or email info@ormtec.co.uk
Links www.sibelco.co.uk
Ormston Technology is working with arborists - KPS Contractors who undertake tree surveying and consultancy.
By using the Promark500TM which offers the winning combination of GPS+GLONASS and 20 years of file-proven Magellan technology, this powerful survey solution delivers state-of-the-art features in a light, cable free rover that gives you maximum mobility in the field.
Decay in wood is a natural recycling process, however it is a constant problem to the Arborist who has to determine the extent of decay, as in most cases decay is not visual to the human eye. KPS Contractors have mapped many sites in the last two years which have included visual tree inspections, GPS plotting, picus tests which show the extent of decay and tree climbing inspections of thousands of trees. This work has been carried out for both private companies and individual home and land owners to help fulfil the legal duty of care placed upon anyone who owns a tree, which has the potential to injure or cause damage to another person or property.
Serge de Lussy of KPS Contractors explains:
“We needed to map 6,500 sites all over the South of England. The Promark500TM as provided by Ormston Technology has proven to be 100% accurate and reliable. We looked at a number of providers and decided to use Ormston Technology because they offer excellent customer service and support. We have had the device for a year now and if there has been a problem we can call anytime 7-days per week. We would recommend Ormston Technology to anyone who requires good support, excellent service and GPS products that are extremely cost effective.”
Link – www.kpscontractors.co.uk
Work is underway with the National Trust to identify and locate each and every plant and vegetable in more than eighty National Trust gardens.
This immense three year survey will encapsulate details of the wide range of plants growing in National Trust gardens in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Tim Pybus, Managing Director of Ormston Technology explains:
“Our company is branching out and providing technology and support to the gardeners and volunteers who are carrying out the survey. A photo will be taken of each plant, a GPS grid reference will be recorded using Magellan’s handheld data collector device with GPS receiver and MobileMapper CX so that each plant can then be identified by experts.
Information from all of the survey work carried out in the gardens will be entered into a central database. This will enable experts to identify which plants, trees or heritage vegetables need to be propagated in order to replenish existing collections and make plants available elsewhere.
The propagation of plants will enable the National Trust to replenish existing collections, prepare its gardens for the challenges of climate change and make plants available to other properties.
Many of the National Trust’s working kitchen gardens will be taking part in the survey. This will provide a much clearer picture of the rare and threatened heritage varieties of vegetables found in these gardens and which of them need to be preserved and propagated for wider use.”
Mike Calnan, Head of Parks and Gardens at the National Trust, explains how the latest GPS technology enables this survey to be achieved:
“This is the biggest and most comprehensive plant survey ever undertaken in the UK. At the moment we have records for around five per cent of plants in our gardens but by implementing GPS technology this survey will take that figure to beyond 75 per cent in the next three years. Ormston Technology offered us the best product and service. With so many staff and volunteers involved and the amount of properties around the UK to be surveyed - ease of use and value for the money were fundamental to the project. The Magellan MobileMapper CX is a rugged GPS handheld device which is made to a high standard, it is weatherproof and provides sub metre accurate ordnance survey coordinate positions.”
Franklyn Tancock, who is coordinating the project at the National Trust explains how the GPS receivers are equipped with DigiTerra Explorer 5, a mobile Global Information System (GIS) and data capture software:
“DigiTerra Explorer was selected because it is an easy to understand, straightforward application. Details of captured information are easily processed providing ease of identification and display on the map.
We will be able to map out the thousands of rare species of plant in the care of the National Trust which have been bred by passionate plant collectors or gathered by plant hunters on expeditions during the last 400 years or so. We might even ‘discover’ plants that we didn’t know we had.”
To discover how Ormston Technology can help map your business, call 01482 677655 or email info@ormtec.co.uk
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Magellan Professional is pleased to announce a new migration path for ProMark3 owners who can now use their existing ProMark3 as a controller for a dual-frequency GPS or GPS-GLONASS system from Magellan Professional.
The latest FAST Survey version will allow ProMark3 owners to re-use their platforms with a ProMark 500 or ProFlex 500, thus giving them the ability to save money on the field controller.
Just load FAST Survey 2.3.4 for ProMark3 Controller onto an existing ProMark3 and see what else it can do. Migration is possible for any ProMark3 or ProMark3 RTK receiver.