New mobile survey equipment launched<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): PT Remedial Piranti Jaya trading company and the
\nAgency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT)
\nhave launched a new mobile survey equipment unit that can produce
\nsurveying results faster and cheaper on location.<\/p>\n
PT Remedial's President Sugiarto Muljadi said here over the
\nweekend that the mobile equipment -- called the integrated
\nterrestrial survey system (SSTT) -- has been developed since last
\nyear and is now ready to provide survey services.<\/p>\n
The mobile equipment, which is mounted on a jeep, can be used
\nto conduct underground mapping, particularly for mining;
\naboveground mapping for property and agriculture; geotechnic
\nstudy; monitoring and analyzing pollution; and other types above-
\nground surveys, he added.<\/p>\n
The system comprises a mobile laboratory, which is equipped
\nwith a global positioning system (GPS) and geographical
\ninformation system (GIS), visual sensor, heat tracking sensor,
\ngeophysics sensor, geological data base and data processing
\nsystem.<\/p>\n
He did not elaborate on the system's tariffs.<\/p>\n
The project manager of the mobile equipment, Iwan Gunawan of
\nBPPT, said that the unit was the 40th in the world and the second
\nin Asia, after the one developed by Japan.<\/p>\n
\"By using this mobile equipment, we don't need to take all the
\ndata from survey locations to our office for further processing
\nbecause the data is processed on the site of surveying
\nactivities. We can do all the processing in the jeep and we can
\naccess its computer for any kind of geological information,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
The GPS and GIS systems were modified by BPPT from the U.S.
\ncompany GeoResearch's GPS and GIS technology, which was brought
\nto Indonesia through PT Remedial Piranti Jaya.<\/p>\n
Previously, the Indonesian private firm, in cooperation with
\nBPPT, launched a new sophisticated and portable mapping machine
\ncalled Geolink. \"Geolink products are now on sale here, costing
\nUS$10,000 per unit,\" said Muljadi.<\/p>\n
He said that a Geolink, which is linked to 27 satellites,
\ncomprises a satellite data receiver, data recorder, data monitor
\nand range finder.<\/p>\n
He said that his company received a license to develop and
\nmarket the portable mapping machine in Indonesia from GeoResearch
\nlast year.<\/p>\n
Muljadi is upbeat that the two kinds of technological
\nequipment, which cost his company about Rp 1 billion ($431.03
\nmillion), will be widely used in the country. (bnt)<\/p>",
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