Projects

TrueSouth has extensive experience in a wide variety of survey tasks and we take pride in our ability to offer solutions for often demanding and unusual projects.

Prior to the creation of TrueSouth:

• Antarctic Surveyor – seconded to DSIR for two summer seasons to provide survey support for mapping and scientific projects
• Part of United Nations team to establish the international border between Iraq and Kuwait – included placement of 105 border marking pillars
• Military mapping Kuwait 1994 – survey fix of airspace obstructions

Since TrueSouth's inception in 1999 we have been involved in a variety of survey tasks that include:

• Mapping control for Fiordland National Park 1:50000 map series. This was the first major project in New Zealand to use the then new GPS technology
• Ngai Tahu Treaty Settlement – subdivision of Greenstone, Elfin Bay and Routeburn High Country Stations – approx 33000 hectares
• Survey control for second Manapouri Tailrace Tunnel
• Survey of Datum 2000 control networks including capture of over 1600 new 5th order stations
• Rakiura National Park – definition of 138600 hectares on Stewart Island
• Construction set-out for the Velodrome and the Stadium Southland rebuild
• Marine Reserves – Fiordland and Stewart Island
• Data capture, construction set-out and easement definition for electricity transmission lines
• Survey control support for hydrographic charting in and around Foveaux Strait, including establishment of geodetic control marks and tidal monitoring stations on Stewart, Solander, The Snares and Dog Islands
• Aeronautical obstruction surveys for Invercargill and Manapouri Airports
• Extensive capture of major Southland rivers including profiles and depth soundings