The System contributes to calculating the amount and direction of crustal movements and linking them to seismic study in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi City Municipality: Abu Dhabi Municipality has launched the Cadastral Stations System Improvement and Development Project, which offers services to over 220 engineering companies, and governmental & quasi-governmental institutions. The System also supports surveying engineers in the three municipalities: Abu Dhabi City Municipality, Western Region Municipality and Al Ain City Municipality; and contributes to calculating the amount and direction of crustal movements in Abu Dhabi emirate and linking them to the seismic activity study in the region.
HE Musabbah Mubarak Al Murar, Acting General Manager of Abu Dhabi City Municipality said: "The launch of the cadastral stations system comes as part of the vision of Abu Dhabi municipal system aimed at enhancing its services, saving time and costs, raising the productivity of field geographical survey and standardizing cadastral readings in all survey undertaken by all parties in the emirate. The System also provides fast, accurate and advanced services to overcome all previous problems resulting from dissimilarities in cadastral readings, and provides a multi-faceted package of geographic information which provides a clear and well-rehearsed environment for decision-makers and contributes to supporting the overall planning strategic vision."
The Cadastral Stations System Improvement and Development Project is intended to upgrade the components of the main control room to ensure the continuity of the system, and reduce crashes. The System also upgrades the components of the main stations by changing receivers, antennas, and all communication devices as they have been used for more than nine years (since 2006). The Municipality also intended to relocate some stations, having observed recent repercussions impacting the neighboring buildings, in addition to preparing for embracing future satellite technologies including receiving Chinese and European signals, and sending system corrections to mobile GPS devices to obtain the coordinates with an accuracy of less than one meter. A station has also been installed to monitor the system output around-the-clock, measure the quality and regularity of output, send real time 3-D coordinates corrections to satellite scanners, increase the coverage area to include remote areas and use solar energy as a source of energy and data transmission."
The Municipality explained that the Cadastral Stations System offers its services to more than 220 engineering companies, governmental and quasi-governmental institutions. The System also serves survey engineers in the three municipalities: Abu Dhabi City Municipality, Al Ain City Municipality and the Western Region Municipality, which will be of direct benefit from the System deliverables in constructing buildings and roads and designating utility lines (electricity, water, communications, sewerage and gas), in addition to aerial survey, which benefits from the deliverables of the system around the clock.
The data and satellite readings collected during the past eight years have been used to calculate the amount and direction of crustal movements in Abu Dhabi emirate and link those results to seismic activity studies in the region.
The Municipality has unveiled the new additions introduced to the System including two new stations in Dabayaa area and Um Alsmol, in addition to the main control room which has become part of the main data center affiliated to Abu Dhabi City Municipality. The addition also include sending satellite corrections with an accuracy of less than 1 meter to be used in marine and land navigation, and finding points, levels & altitudes to sea level directly using satellite devices.
It is worth mentioning that the implementation of the surveying stations project started first in March of 2007 and included establishing fixed referential stations (20 stations in constant contact with satellites and Global Positioning System to transmit readings to the control center via a network, besides constructing a main central control room in Abu Dhabi City Municipality connected to stations to process data and send readings corrections to survey engineers who use the system to complete the cadastral measurements, and take the horizontal & vertical coordinates with high accuracy, anytime and anywhere in Abu Dhabi emirate.
The System has contributed to dispensing with building a large number of referential ground points, saving time, effort and costs of surveying works, besides saving the huge cost of surveying equipment and devices in place. The System also expand the geographical scope to serve the accurate network survey, provides full central control and standardizes spatial referential standards to ensure compatibility of different field measurements carried out by all parties in terms of quality and accuracy. It also provides sophisticated, accurate and fast service to all different parties in addition to the possibility of generating revenue by imposing fees for the service to re-invest in the project and cover the cost of construction, operation and maintenance.
© Press Release 2015
