Geodata

Geodata specializes in monitoring, tunnel surveying, geotechnical instrumentation and information management. Geodata develops and distributes its own hardware and software and utilizes a broad spectrum of international partnership to form a flexible, innovative and solution-oriented supplier of both, systems and services. One of the latest deployments is the highly innovative TBM guidance system Tauros. The system combines well-tried solutions for TBM guidance with new sensor technology such as a camera measurement system and a fully automatic tail skin clearance measurement system. All information is displayed on a user friendly interface which demands very limited user interaction thus providing a higher degree of automation and safety and a lower risk of failure.

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