Mobile Mapping Solutions

Trimble's state-of-the-art mobile mapping solutions provide users with everything they need to successfully implement this technology. Other benefits of selecting Trimble for mobile mapping include:

• Self-auto calibration reduces maintenance.
• Equipment is serviced at a North American Service Center, eliminating the need to ship equipment overseas.
• Relatively low cost warranty, support and maintenance bundles compared to other high-end brands.
• Applanix's AP60 IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) comes standard on the MX9 and is an option with the MX50.
• System weight and components that yield simple, quick and easy installation.
• Common software workflow across the Trimble MX series.

To qualify for this program, you must first purchase a Starter Kit. Taking advantage of this program means you will own everything but the sensor itself, including all supporting mobile mapping hardware and optional accessories to conduct missions using your vehicle.

Other benefits include:

• Reduced rental rates.
• Free transit days (we won't charge you for your rental while the unit is shipping to/from your office).
• The ability to reserve a sensor as far in advance as you would like.
• Option to upgrade your Starter Kit anytime by purchasing the sensor that goes with it.

The other rental pathway is the Graduated Hardware Rental Program. For this option, we send you all necessary mobile mapping hardware to capture your mission data, charged at escalating rates per day. This option is meant for those who are not sure how often they will need to leverage mobile mapping tech. Any customer who goes this route can, at any time, purchase a Starter Kit and immediately begin renting at the reduced Preferred Hardware Rental Program rates.

Please note – any customer who goes this route must have the necessary processing software to take the raw data off the sensor and turn it into something usable. Duncan-Parnell will not process your data for you outside of a Paid Pilot day, but we do have third-party data processing partners we can refer you to if you do not already have or intend to purchase your own licenses for the necessary processing software.

Learn more about both of our rental programs here.

• Reduced rental rates.
• Free transit days (we won't charge you for your rental while the unit is shipping to/from your office).
• The ability to reserve a sensor as far in advance as you would like.
• Option to upgrade your Starter Kit anytime by purchasing the sensor that goes with it.

We offer hands-on training and support to help ensure your team's success with mobile mapping, however, surveyors, GIS and other geospatial professionals can expect a slight learning curve when adopting this technology for the first time. Surveyors and engineers, especially those proficient in terrestrial scanning and processing point clouds, will just have to familiarize themselves with trajectory processing. If you currently perform terrestrial scanning with Trimble scanners and process the data in Trimble Business Center (TBC), there is a rather short learning curve to mobile mapping.

For data capture, planning and setting enough ground control points to satisfy your project's accuracy requirements is important, but regardless of your project's purpose or the mobile mapping solution you use, keeping these tips in mind can help ensure success:

1. Utilize an onsite base station logging 1 second intervals: Depending on project accuracy requirements, if your purpose is to capture panoramic imagery for populating a GIS database, utilizing the nearest CORS base station is more than sufficient. If completing engineering grade deliverables for a DOT, this is essentially a requirement.
2. Dynamic driving: This means quick turns, starts and stops and getting up to highway speed quickly, to shake up the IMU and drive down your heading values to get a much better positioning solution.
3. Static session pre- and post-mission: This means powering up the system and sitting still under open skies for 3-5 minutes after your initial dynamic driving period, as well as immediately following your last captured run to enhance the positioning solution and the quality of your final post-processed trajectory.

Anyone who needs to document large-scale sites quickly and authoritatively would benefit from Trimble's MX series gear.

Traditionally, mobile scanning is leveraged on highway and other major road projects to generate engineering-quality road surfaces, but this tech can be used in so many other ways, such as for GIS asset collection - both large- and small-scale.

Mobile Mapping can also be used to accelerate the fieldwork on a terrestrial scanning project. Surveying and engineering companies utilize this technology, but other mapping firms, and anyone who owns or manages assets, such as municipalities, utility companies and their contractors as well as large campuses (college, hospital, military base), etc. could all benefit.