365 days a year, ascos provides fast, reliable and economically correction data for a vast variety of users all across Germany. The data are provided in real-time and of a very high quality.
More and more construction companies are using modern GPS equipment and ascos correction data in machine control applications.
For example, GNSS and GIS are used on large vibration rollers to record and monitor work-steps in soil compaction. By doing so, the demands of quality control, service documentation and the burden of proof even in difficult environments are met.
Work in the forest can be carried out faster and more economically using mobile GNSS and GIS systems. This helps to enhance the international competitiveness of Germany’s forest economy. In cooperation with partner companies, ascos tests the use of precise GNSS applications in forestry processes such as large area stocktaking, mapping of forest roads and walkways, or the collection of lying wood.
Precision farming – the precise control of agricultural machines by GPS based on ascos correction data – results in higher efficiency and security in agriculture.
In fruit cultivations, trees can be planted with the help of GPS control. By doing so, prior lengthy surveying work is omitted.
In marine surveying at sea or on rivers movements of the surveying ship as well as tidal movements must be taken into account.
Without the use of precise GNSS systems this is a complex challenge to solve. Therefore marine surveying companies use ascos real-time correction data to receive precise information about water depths quickly and easily.
ascos – solutions for applications of Deutsche Bahn AG and its partners range from planning and constructing railroad tracks to maintenance work and dynamic missions, such as automated surveying of track profiles using the surveying-train LIMEZ III.
At present, applications to support the everyday operation of trains are being developed.
ascos provides individual solutions of highest precision and availability for all applications – in real-time, but also in RINEX format for virtual post-processing. Accuracies are adjusted to the respective field of application. The data output is either in ETRS89 format or data is transformed into Deutsch Bahn’s own reference network, DB_REF, without the need for control points.
For maximum availability of mobile communication along overland rail tracks ascos has developed a connection to Deutsch Bahn’s own mobile radio network GSM-R. Hardware to access GSM_R is available through ascos.
- ascos-services connection to GSM-R, the mobile radio network of DB AG
- Real-time transformation into DB’s proprietary coordinate reference system DB_REF
- Internet platform for automated supply of GNSS correction data for the survey train LIMEZ III
- Post processing – ascos ViPP (Virtual post processing based on RINEX):
- Online solution
- Automated supply of GNSS correction data according to application
- Mobile phone and modem solutions in cooperation with partners