Trimble in Africa

Keith HofgartnerProjects Manager - Worldwide

Keith Hofgartner I am…

A passionate surveyor! (ask my wife Rita!)

– UK qualified Land Surveyor & Civil Engineer ….over 30 years ago..

First exposure to surveying in secondary school (Geography)

– Believes that ‘Surveyors can change the world!’

Trimble together with FIG

Platinum Corporate Sponsor FIG Foundation

– Founding Strategic Partner

Why???

– Developing new and expanding existing markets– Develop relationships with Professional Bodies

Trimble in Africa

Trimble Trimble in Africa ‘Mission: Impossible 5’

Trimble Navigation engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of advanced positioning product solutions to commercial and

government users worldwide.

Technological convergence is enabling our growth and our customer’s

productivity

A Corporate Overview…

Engineering & Construction55% of revenue

• Survey• Construction• Construction Services

Field Solutions25% of revenue

• Agriculture• Mapping & GIS

Mobile Solutions12% of revenue

• Fleet Tracking• Mobile Worker

Productivity

Advanced Devices8% of revenue

• Embedded GPS Products• Timing• Applanix

Trimble Business Segments

Trimble in Africa

Trimble in Africa

Regional Offices– Kenya (Nairobi)– Ghana (Accra)– South Africa (Cape Town)

– Distribution partners

Multilateral Funded Projects

Tanzania – World Bank funding

Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Development Procurement of Surveying Equipment including GPS, Optical and

Photogrammetric equipment ($ 1.3m)

Benin– Millennium Challenge Corporation funding

Establishment of Continually Operating Reference Station (CORS) Network and surveying of Rural and Urban Land Parcels ($ 1.1m)

Burkina Faso– Millennium Challenge Corporation Funding

Construction and installation of CORS network ($ 1.2m)

Ghana– World Bank and MCC funding

Establishment of CORS networks and Pilot projects for Land Registration

Benin Cadastre Overview

Funded Projects (World Bank, MCC…) Current WB Land Admin Projects: around US $1.5 billion MCC Benin Access to Land Project: $36 million

Purpose of Land Administration Projects:– Stimulate economic and social development

Increasing land transactions and access to credit Improving productive investments in land Improving the standard of living of property owners and

occupants

GNSS Infrastructure– Enables cost reductions for cadastral projects

Reduced monumentation Consistent coordinate system Base for future expansion

Cadastral Solutions - Benin

Cadastral Solutions - Benin

Rural Areas– Mapping existing parcels– Accuracy 20-30 cm– Post-processing– Trimble GeoXH

Urban Areas– QC, add control points– Accuracy 2-3 cm– PP or local RTK– Trimble R8GNSS/TSC2

Cadastral Solutions - Benin

GPS post-processing– Using centrally stored CORS data– Automatic data downloads from nearest CORS– Coordinates computed based on national grid– QC and Analysis by National Geographic Institute

Cadastral Solutions - Benin

Data management– ESRI ArcGIS Land Information System

Achievements– 30,000 urban areas occupancy permits

converted to land titles– 85,000 rural households in 300 villages

will receive titles or certificates– 12 regional land conservation offices

and 24 communal land management offices created

‘Mission: Impossible 5’…..Your chance to star in a movie

Four ‘Studios’

You will be divided into four teams

– Yellow Studio– Red Studio– Green Studio– Blue Studio

Using the selection of coloured stickers…

First come, first served..

‘Tool’ production

Where are you going and bear in mind…

What the ‘Tool’ is..– Marketing: Your slides should include: text,

annotation and photos (movies)– Message: That helps Member Associations to

break down barriers, so it is a recruiting tool for our target people (women young or both)

– Time scale: One hour allocated for this..

Being a Surveyor is not…. ‘Mission: Impossible’

Your Mission… (if you decide to accept it!)

– To measure as accurately as possible the area of a ‘plot’ of land (defined by relevant coloured pins) and then subdivide into two equal areas.

Using ‘Old technology’

All in 50 minutes!!

and then check it … using ‘New technology’

All in 30 minutes!!!

Or Less!!

The Mission - Field Exercise

The following tools are available: Measuring Tapes Optical Squares Compass Ranging Rods

NOTE – it is not expected that the exercise canbe completed in the allocated time but a processof how the task would be completed is required.

And afterwards we will do it the easy way to check your results!

The Mission – Define your ‘Cast’

Director

Camera Person

Recorder 1

Recorder 2

Actor 1

Actor 2

Actor 3

Booker

Computer

Processor 1

Processor 2

Processor 3

Crew(capture the task)

Actors(undertake the task)

Laboratories(develop the results)

Questions?

Thank You