Carlson AgStar

Description

Agstar offers a complete package of land-levelling tools for agricultural and irrigation purposes.  For data collection, Agstar supports a wide range of GPS RTK receivers, including such popular brands as Navcom, Ashtech, Leica, Sokkiam, and Trimble; if you have it, Agstar probably supports it, which means you may not even need to upgrade your hardware.

Agstar handles both the survey and the design sides of land-levelling, allowing you to survey large fields with GPS, and then determine the optimal field design requiring the least amount of dirt moved. Agstar enables you to set the cut/fill ratio, the amount of dirt to import or export, and a host of other design parameters. It also allows you to subdivide the field and assign different designs to each subdivision, which is useful if you want crowns in your field.

After field design, Agstar can display design information in a variety of ways:

1) A pad report detailing the total cubic cut/fill yardage, the field area, the field grade, and other useful information.
2) A color-coded cut/fill spreadsheet (cutsheet) showing the amount of cut/fill for each field segment.
3) A color-coded contour map depicting the existing or cut/fill contour lines.
4) An option to ”Stakeout Design Surface”, which tells the user the cut or fill with an on-screen lightbar, while navigating the field.

Agstar is the latest in a long line of powerful software survey tools produced by Carlson Software, including Carlson SurvCE and Carlson Survey. In addition to its basic land survey and design commands, it contains many of the useful features of its predecessors, allowing you to view and manipulate your survey data in a wide variety of ways.

Carlson Software also provides some of the best technical support in the industry. If you ever need help with it, don’t hesitate to contact us for free technical support.