Utility detection for avoidance and mapping

Uncovering Data, Digitalis Reality

Surveyors, utility companies and contractors, now more than ever, need accurate, highly reliable, and up-to-date information – available for immediate use. Using the latest technology, detecting underground features becomes a simple and efficient task, increasing your safety and the protection of buried utilities. Our detection solutions provide a truly streamlined process from the field to the office, and back again, able to cover the entire utility detection, avoidance and mapping workflow with integrated solutions.  

Cable avoidance

Undertaking any excavation will inevitably bring site workers into close proximity to underground utilities. Consideration should always be given to knowing the exact location of all buried utilities before and during the excavation process.

DD220/DD230 SMART Utility Locators Solution

Leica DD SMART Locators & DX Shield Software - Work safer, work faster, work simpler

Utility Tracing

Utility surveying means exact detection and mapping of the utility. Asset owners precisely want to know where their infrastructure is. For future planning and utility maintenance, they need to have their utilities mapped digitally.

Leica ULTRA Utility Tracing System

Best precision locating in faster, more confident work

Save time and increase confidence in your results with the Leica ULTRA, our most advanced precision utility tracinginstrument.

The complexity of underground utility networks is continually increasing, and obtaining precise information on the location of buried utilities has never been more important. The protection of buried assets during excavation work demands accurate mapping and surveying of existing utilities. 

Integrating intelligent signal processing with unique flexible operating modes, Leica ULTRA traces buried utility lines accurately for safe underground excavations and utility surveys. Outstanding performance with operational ease and flexibility. 

Utilities Detection and Mapping

A utility map shows the positioning and identification of buried pipes and cables beneath the ground. Combine mapping process with a topographical survey and the results will provide you with a comprehensive detailed map of utilities.

Leica DS2000 Utility Detection Radar

Uncovering safer, faster, more

There’s a lot going on underground that you need to know about before you ever start to dig. The Leica DS2000 Utility Detection Radar finds all potential threats, including non-conductive pipes and fibre optics, increasing safety by lowering the risk of accidently hitting underground assets.

Increase safety, speed up work and lower asset management costs with the ability to prevent hazardous outages and collect more information. The DS2000 betters your business by making it safer, faster and more efficient.

Extensive 3D utility mapping

An extensive utility detection and mapping process allow an accurate and complete recording of underground utility assets reducing the risk of third-party damage. The use of multi-frequency and multi-channel radar technology, permits to scan and map all the underground assets both in narrow and extensive areas with a fast and easy process with very high accuracy and significant resource reductions.

Stream C

Ground penetrating radar for real time underground utility mapping

Stream C is the compact array solution for real-time 3D mapping of underground utilities and features. Thanks to the increased level of accuracy, provided by a massive antenna array, Stream C is able to detect pipes and cables automatically.

Daily use of Stream C is aided by ergonomic features including electronic ride height adjustment, options to tow manually or with a small vehicle, and a motor assisted drive wheel.

Stream C is available in both Basic and Advanced configurations.

The system features:

• Massive array of 34 antennas in two polarisations: An accurate 3D reconstruction of the underground utility network is created in a single scan.
• Automatic Pipe Detection (APD): Real-time automatic detection of buried pipes and cables.
• Compact size: Stream C’s small dimensions enable it to survey areas inaccessible to larger array systems while maintaining the same accuracy.
• Robust construction: Built to the highest standards and with robust materials so that it can be used in harsh, demanding environments.
• 3D radar tomography: Real-time tomography on a GPS or total station assisted cartographic background.
• Professional subsurface survey: Quickly produce subsurface GIS based digital maps when pipes, cables and buried objects are automatically transferred to CAD and GIS formats.

Above and Underground 3D Mapping

What's happening underground affects what's happening above ground. With 3D visualisation underground with GPR and above ground with laser scanning, extensively know any environment to make the best informed decisions.

Pegasus:Stream

Ground penetrating radar for mobile mass data collection

Stream EM in accompaniment with the Leica Pegasus:Two offers a solution that provides an integrated hardware platform for extensive 3D mapping of both underground utilities and surface features in only one scan.

This ground penetrating radar solution allows mobile mass data collection of underground utilities due to the use of a massive array of antennas. At the same time as capturing calibrated imagery and point cloud data, the solution uses:

• Laser scanner (or several scanners)
• LiDAR technology
• GNSS receiver
• Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
• Distance Measurement Instrument (DMI)

All on a mobile platform (vehicle), acquire accurate and precise spatial data.

The solution has been conceived to cover tens of hectares per day, obtaining the best underground utility and surface surveys while maintaining the same 15 km/h maximum data collection speed.