Farmers and contractors looking to undertake their own drainage surveys can take advantage of new package from Mastenbroek and Trimble.
The package brings together the new DA2 Catalyst and access to WM-Subsurface software at a £6,000 price point.
It is the first time the DA2 has been available to UK drainage professionals and farmers – and half the cost of previous solutions.
“Drainage contractors and some larger farming groups asked us if we had a portable, relatively low-cost survey tool,” says Mastenbroek technical director Fred Clarke. “Until now, we’ve not had a solution we were completely happy to offer people.”
Powered by the Trimble Catalyst GNSS positioning service, the DA2 receiver, combined with a Catalyst service subscription, delivers centimetre accuracy to location-enabled Android devices.
The DA2 can be attached to a pole for handheld surveys or mounted on a vehicle. It delivers precision and position quality to any location-enabled workflow, with increased accuracy and reliability near trees and buildings.
The DA2 is used with the free WM-Survey II app, allowing users to create basic field surveys for water management activities. This allows elevation points across a field to be easily mapped to create a land drainage design.
Optimal placement
WM-Subsurface software ensures the optimal placement of land drains in sub-surface drainage water management projects, helping to drain fields adequately and increase crop yields.
The software allows users to produce 3D models of fields, determine watershed zones, enable flow arrows and tributary lines, calculate pipe sizes and print out maps showing required drain lengths and materials needed.
For full details, visit Mastenbroek on stand 413 at Cereals.
