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Trimble in Africa

• Keith Hofgartner
• Projects Manager - Worldwide

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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!

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Trimble together with FIG

• Platinum Corporate Sponsor
• FIG Foundation
• Founding Strategic Partner
• Why???
• Developing new and expanding existing markets
• Develop relationships with Professional Bodies

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Trimble in Africa

• Trimble
• Trimble in Africa
• Mission Impossible 5

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A Corporate Overview
Technological convergence is enabling our growth
and our customers productivity
Trimble Navigation engages in the development,
manufacture, marketing, and sale of advanced
positioning product solutions to commercial and
government users worldwide.
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Trimble Navigation International Ltd. (NASDAQ
TRMB)

• 1978 Founded as early GPS pioneer
• Listed in NASDAQ.
• Global company
• 48 of revenue outside the U.S
• Market leadership in core markets
• Track record of consistent financial performance

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Trimble Navigation International Ltd. (NASDAQ
TRMB)
Growth through Acquisitions, mergers and joint
ventures
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Trimble a Worldwide Organisation
Manufacturing Centres California Canada Chin
a France Germany Japan Mexico Ohio Oregon Sweden
Virginia
Software Development Arizona
Australia Colorado Florida France Germany Japa
n New Zealand Oregon Texas Virginia
Worldwide Offices Australia Africa Ca
nada China Dubai France Germany India Italy Net
herlands Russia Spain Singapore Sweden United
Kingdom USA
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Trimble Business Segments
Engineering Construction 55 of revenue

• Survey
• Construction
• Construction Services

• Agriculture
• Mapping GIS

Field Solutions 25 of revenue
Mobile Solutions 12 of revenue

• Fleet Tracking
• Mobile Worker Productivity

• Embedded GPS Products
• Timing
• Applanix

Advanced Devices 8 of revenue
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Business SegmentEngineering Construction
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Business Segment - Field Solutions
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Business Segment - Mobile Solutions
Markets Served Representative Customers
Fleet Management Local Fleet Operators Municipal Fleet Operators
Security Commercial Vehicles
Mobile Resource Management Utility Companies Transportation Companies Public Works
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Business Segment Advanced Devices
Markets Served Representative Customers
Chip and Board Level Products Electronic OEMs Portable Appliance Manufacturers
Tracking Devices System Integrators Security Device Suppliers
Timing Wireless Infrastructure providers
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Trimble in Africa
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Trimble in Africa

• Regional Offices
• Kenya (Nairobi)
• Ghana (Accra)
• South Africa (Cape Town)
• Distribution partners

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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

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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

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Cadastral Solutions - Benin

• GNSS Infrastructure
• Enables cost reductions for cadastral projects
• Reduced monumentation
• Consistent coordinate system
• Base for future expansion

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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

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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

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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

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Mission Impossible 5..Your chance to star in
a movie
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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..

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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

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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!!

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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!

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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)
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Questions?

• Thank You

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