Products - SIMON KAPLO Eng.

The products that we distribute and support fall within three main categories: Geomatics, Seismic, and Geotechnical products. Below is a list of our suppliers. Please click on a supplier's name for further information. (External links will open in a new window.)

Surveying Equipment

TOPCON: One of the leading companies in the surveying and topographic industry over more than 70 years.

Hi-Target: Established in 1999, Hi-Target Survey Instruments Company Ltd. is engaged in GNSS high-tech technology industry, covering from GNSS technology development, to production as well as marketing and sales. Hi-Target, headquartered in Guangzhou, China, owns a first-class GNSS product manufacturing plant, a professional GNSS technology research and development center and laboratories, bringing to the world high quality products, continuously.

Tamaya: Tamaya manufactures surveying instruments, drawing instruments, weather equipment, optical instruments, measuring instruments, and navigation instruments.

Seismic Solutions

GeoSIG: Superior Instruments, State-of-the-art systems for seismic, structural and dynamic monitoring and measuring solutions.

Pizzi: Instruments and systems for the monitering of dams and big structures.

Güralp: A world leader in the design and manufacture of low-noise broadband seismometers.

Map Archiving and Vectorization

Colortrac: A pioneer and innovator in cost-effective colour & monochrome wide format scanners

Mutoh: Mutoh is one of the world's largest manufacturers of printers for indoor applications, outdoor solvent-based printers, eco-solvent printers, and signcutting plotters (cutters), in addition to other peripheral devices. Mutoh's DrafStation series printers incorporate a new generation "Wide Model" print head (4 colour sections, 360 nozzles/colour), which will enable the highest resolution for CAD, 2880 dpi.

Softelec: A world leading software supplier for scanned image editing and conversion. The company specializes in imaging solutions capable of performing various operations, such as raster and vector editing, vectorization, and map archiving. More

softelec is a world leading software supplier for scanned image editing and conversion. Founded in 1983, softelec specialized on PC based technical application software development. The late 1980s saw the introduction of large format scanners for PC operation and softelec focused on high-quality raster-to-vector conversion software for legacy drawings and technical documents.

In the 1990s, VPHybridCAD software evolved from a mere raster-to-vector conversion system into more complex and capable imaging solutions. Ever since, each VPHybridCAD product release has been staying ahead of current technology standards.

Today, VPindex (for archiving and database integration of scanned drawings), VPview (for viewing of various raster, hybrid, and vector file formats) and VPmap Series (for easy and accurate GIS integration and conversion of scanned maps) have expanded the softelec product range considerably.

Recently, softelec announced the release of VPindex V3, an all-new version substituting the former V2. With VPindex V3, hundreds of scanned drawings or 2D CAD files can be readily cleaned, indexed, linked to a database, and archived in a day's time.

VPindex handles automated processing of legacy drawings, scans, and 2D CAD files for capture, cleanup, formatting and intelligent storage. Quick retrieval from a database or from a document management system is gained by the program's capabilities of collecting index information by OCR from drawing's title blocks. Seamless data transfer is supported by standard ODBC interfacing. A complete raster/hybrid/CAD editor module has been added to VPindex for extensive clean-up, corrections, and content updates.

Collecting index information by OCR from drawing's title block with VPindex V3

OCR data capture can also be applied for renaming files according to their title block content. An optional "Power OCR" module will improve recognition rates and includes an expanded set of supported languages, such as Cyrillic and Greek.

All processing options, such as scan cleanup, auto-rotation, CAD to TIF conversion, and many more are organized into customizable tasks. A setup "Wizard" offers comprehensive user assistance for each step to configure automatic workflows. All Microsoft Windows® installation platforms are supported, including Vista^TM.

For more information on softelec products, visit www.softelec.com

ProServ: Solutions for archiving and technical management of large-size documents.

Photogrammetry & GIS

RACURS: Racurs offers a set of software tools in the field of photogrammetry, GIS and remote sensing.

PCI Geomatics: A world leader in developing complete geomatics software solutions using remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, spatial analysis, and cartographic editing.

ProGIS: Provider PC-based Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and complementary products and services.

LIDAR

Optech: Optech is the global market leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced, laser-based survey systems.

Geotechnical Equipment & Software

APAGEO: Equipment for all geotechnical, drilling, laboratory testing and grouting needs.

GEO-SLOPE: GEO-SLOPE International Ltd. develops, markets and supports state-of-the-art CAD software for geotechnical and geo-environmental modeling.