Innergy Power's Solar Solutions Support Grand Canyon Mapping Project
SAN DIEGO--An ambitious project to create highly detailed maps of the nation's 400 national parks is under way in Grand Canyon with the help of portable, customized solar-battery rechargers from Innergy Power.
National Park Service teams are using Innergy's portable, lightweight solar-battery rechargers to keep their hand-held mapping and communications equipment running as they roam the back country for days, far from any wall outlet. While a team is away from camp gathering mapping data, a second set of batteries for the next day's excursion is being powered-up back at camp, using Innergy's portable technology.
The Park Service project will result in detailed computer-based maps showing terrain and vegetation with one- to five-meter resolution to help research and environmental scientists inventory and monitor conditions within the country's most treasured lands. The Park Service plans to take the mapping program across country, to each park, to create similar high-resolution data of all 400 National Parks, Historic Sites and Monuments.
Innergy's rugged, lightweight systems can take the pounding that an off-road, overland expedition dishes out, providing the perfect fit not only for the job at hand but for recreational uses as well. Whether the piece of equipment be a specialized global positioning device or an iPod or MP3 player being used by a team member after a day in the field, Innergy keeps it running.
"Innergy Power is proud to be a participant in a project of national significance at one of the most beloved and recognizable places on the planet," said Innergy CEO Darrell Musick. "The Grand Canyon project marks the first step in what we expect will be a long-term partnership with 3D Marketing, the prime vendor to the Park Service, and other U.S. government agencies doing similar GPS-related mapping work."
The project is one example of the rapidly growing array of applications for portable solar power combined with lightweight, thin-cell batteries for off-grid uses.
"You can't get much further off grid than the bottom of Grand Canyon, and Innergy is there, providing the Park Service the daily power supply it needs to keep its GPS mapping gear running," Musick said.
U.S. National Parks have never been mapped using the latest satellite-based Global Positioning System technology. GPS mapping is based around the concept of precisely marking fixed points to a very high degree of accuracy; ground-based receivers get signals from some of the 28 Department of Defense GPS satellites in earth orbit some 11,000 miles up and, through a process called "trilaterlation," fix points that can then be used as a basis for developing a highly detailed, three-dimensional picture of the terrain.
The Grand Canyon project employs the portable Thales Mobile Mapper. These devices use a complete battery charge each day, and since field teams are at work in the canyon for days at a time, lightweight back-up power is vital to the project.
In consultation with 3D Marketing, the Park Service, which, as a matter of policy, does not formally endorse any of the products it uses, selected Innergy's IP15B Solar Binder for this project. When NPS teams are out of camp conducting mapping expeditions, a back-up battery set is being charged for the next day's use.
The equipment is rugged, portable and lightweight; the solar array can be set up hanging from a tree or staked into the ground. Innergy customized the Park Service's binders to include dual power outputs, one for the mobile mapping units, the other a standard cigarette plug for recharging satellite phones as needed.
Innergy's IP15Bs are in use on the Canyon rim, down along the Colorado River, on promontories key to the mapping project - wherever they are needed to get the job done.
The Park Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service together have about 8,000 older-generation GPS back-packs in the field conducting a variety of mapping, surveying and geo-locating missions that they hope to replace in the next two to three years, possibly with the Thales Mobile Mapper. Innergy supplies rechargeable batteries for these older GPS units as well.
"We see this as a long-term relationship based on the reliability, utility and flexibility of our solar-power products," Musick said.
Innergy Power is a privately held company based in San Diego with manufacturing operations in Tijuana, Mexico.
Contacts
Innergy Power Corporation
Marysol Gonzalez Doeg, 619-710-4703
mgonzalez@innergypower.com
National Park Service teams are using Innergy's portable, lightweight solar-battery rechargers to keep their hand-held mapping and communications equipment running as they roam the back country for days, far from any wall outlet. While a team is away from camp gathering mapping data, a second set of batteries for the next day's excursion is being powered-up back at camp, using Innergy's portable technology.
The Park Service project will result in detailed computer-based maps showing terrain and vegetation with one- to five-meter resolution to help research and environmental scientists inventory and monitor conditions within the country's most treasured lands. The Park Service plans to take the mapping program across country, to each park, to create similar high-resolution data of all 400 National Parks, Historic Sites and Monuments.
Innergy's rugged, lightweight systems can take the pounding that an off-road, overland expedition dishes out, providing the perfect fit not only for the job at hand but for recreational uses as well. Whether the piece of equipment be a specialized global positioning device or an iPod or MP3 player being used by a team member after a day in the field, Innergy keeps it running.
"Innergy Power is proud to be a participant in a project of national significance at one of the most beloved and recognizable places on the planet," said Innergy CEO Darrell Musick. "The Grand Canyon project marks the first step in what we expect will be a long-term partnership with 3D Marketing, the prime vendor to the Park Service, and other U.S. government agencies doing similar GPS-related mapping work."
The project is one example of the rapidly growing array of applications for portable solar power combined with lightweight, thin-cell batteries for off-grid uses.
"You can't get much further off grid than the bottom of Grand Canyon, and Innergy is there, providing the Park Service the daily power supply it needs to keep its GPS mapping gear running," Musick said.
U.S. National Parks have never been mapped using the latest satellite-based Global Positioning System technology. GPS mapping is based around the concept of precisely marking fixed points to a very high degree of accuracy; ground-based receivers get signals from some of the 28 Department of Defense GPS satellites in earth orbit some 11,000 miles up and, through a process called "trilaterlation," fix points that can then be used as a basis for developing a highly detailed, three-dimensional picture of the terrain.
The Grand Canyon project employs the portable Thales Mobile Mapper. These devices use a complete battery charge each day, and since field teams are at work in the canyon for days at a time, lightweight back-up power is vital to the project.
In consultation with 3D Marketing, the Park Service, which, as a matter of policy, does not formally endorse any of the products it uses, selected Innergy's IP15B Solar Binder for this project. When NPS teams are out of camp conducting mapping expeditions, a back-up battery set is being charged for the next day's use.
The equipment is rugged, portable and lightweight; the solar array can be set up hanging from a tree or staked into the ground. Innergy customized the Park Service's binders to include dual power outputs, one for the mobile mapping units, the other a standard cigarette plug for recharging satellite phones as needed.
Innergy's IP15Bs are in use on the Canyon rim, down along the Colorado River, on promontories key to the mapping project - wherever they are needed to get the job done.
The Park Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service together have about 8,000 older-generation GPS back-packs in the field conducting a variety of mapping, surveying and geo-locating missions that they hope to replace in the next two to three years, possibly with the Thales Mobile Mapper. Innergy supplies rechargeable batteries for these older GPS units as well.
"We see this as a long-term relationship based on the reliability, utility and flexibility of our solar-power products," Musick said.
Innergy Power is a privately held company based in San Diego with manufacturing operations in Tijuana, Mexico.
Contacts
Innergy Power Corporation
Marysol Gonzalez Doeg, 619-710-4703
mgonzalez@innergypower.com
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