Collaborating with the RCI Dynamics, Duebendorf, Switzerland

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Based on personal relationship and coincidence of professional philosophy, GeoSIG started close co-operation with RCI Dynamics, Structural Dynamics Consultants, Duebendorf, Switzerland, recently. Dr. Reto Cantieni, CEO of RCI Dynamics since the beginning of 2001, looks back on more than 25 years of experience in dynamic testing of civil engineering structures like bridges, buildings, towers and dams as a staff member of EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research. Being a civil engineer devoted to structural dynamics, his main experience includes Experimental Modal Analysis of Structures, both with using artificial and ambient excitation techniques. Informal but nevertheless very efficient co-operation with RCI Dynamics enhances GeoSIG's capabilities of offering customer services going well beyond data acquisition and storage: New topics are e.g. Dynamic System Identification and interpretation of the structural dynamic behavior with regard to a structure's health, a procedure known as Structural Health Monitoring today. The Direct Stiffness Method, developed by researchers at the Royal University of Leuven, KUL, Belgium, allows not only identification but also localization and quantification of structural damages from mode shape curvature changes. Dr. Cantieni is the Technical Advisor for European users of ARTeMIS, a software package developed by SVS, Structural Vibrations Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, and also marketed by GeoSIG.

Representation of SISCAM S.r.l, Florence Italy

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Siscam continues, having recently acquired the concerned business activity, the long lasting tradition of Galileo name, with Officine Galileo first and Galileo Siscam afterwards, in the field of Photogrammetry. Two new families of software packages for Digital Photogrammetry and a new series of Double Vision Stereoscopes for Photointerpretation represent the present core business of Siscam. Siscam head offices are located right in the heart of Florence, the place where the tradition of Galileo name, in Photogrammetry, started from.

Alliance with the University of Bergen, Institute of Solid Earth Physics

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GeoSIG is in close collaboration with the Institute of Solid Earth Physics at the University of Bergen in Norway. Bergen University has been in the forefront of development in the field of seismology. Combined with the expertise of GeoSIG in developing advanced instrumentation, this collaboration has resulted in the development of the new GBV series of seismic recorders and the optimization of GeoSIG instruments with the most comprehensive seismic data analysis and handling package in the world, SEISAN, SEISLOG and SEISNET.

Measurement contracts with engineering and construction companies

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GeoSIG Ltd. has entered contracts with major, leading engineering and constructing companies in Switzerland such as (Elektrowatt-Ekono and ABB) to carry out their vibration measurements arising continuously with GeoSIG's Civil Engineering Recorder GCR-16. Major projects have successfully been fulfilled e.g. test measurements of a new railway track in Germany for the 'Deutsche Bahn AG' German Railway's ICE fast train or observation of gas pipelines and underground water tunnels during blasting. Surveillance at building site for water reservoirs and railway stations or vibration measurements at a Swiss Nuclear Power Plant are just a few other projects which have been executed by GeoSIG.

Collaboration with computer manufacturing company

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GeoSIG Ltd. is having a close working relation with the affiliated company Maple Business Systems Ltd, in Coventry, England. Maple Business Systems Ltd. is a computer hardware and software house and has the capability of manufacturing personal computers and computer networks which are usually an integrated part of GeoSIG's seismic network stations.

Co-operation with the FH Aargau (Fachhochschule Aargau) and the Micro Swiss Center

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Further developments on various new electronic and micro-electronic project for our seismic systems are realised in collaboration with the FH Aargau and the Micro Swiss Center, a federal organization promoting and supporting such developments. The implemented Gate Array on the GSR main board is just one of the various developments which has been executed in collaboration with the Micro Swiss Center and under the management of GeoSIG.