OptiSurface Newsletter – 2018 November – Celebrating 1 Million Acres
Welcome to the October 2018 OptiSurface Newsletter.
1 Million Acres Optimized!
We are excited to announce that a few months a ago we clocked over 1 million acres of optimised landform designs all around the world.
It’s been a great ride since our inception almost 10 years ago.
Thank you for being a part of the journey and your efforts at permanently improving your farms or your clients farms.
We have seen designs from over 15 countries, 20 crops in all sorts of climates, topography, irrigated and unirrigated.
Many clients rave about how Optisurfacing their fields results in a step increase in their productivity and profitability.
Our vision, set 9 years ago, was and still is:
“25 million acres of agricultural land with improved drainage or irrigation feeding over 10 million people more than it was previously.”
We have many acres to go but momentum is growing and we will get there over the coming decades thanks to you.
Thank you again for being an ‘Innovator’ (first 2.5% of the population that adopts technology as shown in image below). Our next 10 years will be the decade of the “Early Adopter”.
As a thanks we are offering you a special deal for the month of November. See our new section, Deal of The Month, below for details.
If you have any problems or questions please reply to this email or call me on +61 405-686-425 (Australia) or Preston on +1 870-340-2020 (USA).
Regards
Graeme Cox & The OptiSurface Team
DAVCO OptiSurface
Mobile: +61 405 686 425 Skype: graemejcox
Web: www.optisurface.com
News: www.twitter.com/OptiSurface
“Celebrating One Million Acres of Optimized Agricultural Earthworks”
P.S. If you haven’t taken advantage of OptiSurface yet, we’re offering a special service where we will take your topographic data for a field and conduct some FREE analysis and design. Go here to find out more: http://www.optisurface.com/nlt/
Deal Of The Month
50% Bonus Credits
Buy an OptiSurface Starter Pack or Credit Pack during the month of November and get 50% extra credits.
Simply buy from your dealer as usual and then forward your Licence ID to support@optisurface.com. Ed will generate an extra Licence ID for the 50% Bonus Credits and send back to you. You can activate both licenses on your computer as normal at any time.
Minimum Purchase: $1000 Maximum Purchase Per Client: $5000
Deal Expires: 30th November 2018 Midnight in your time zone.
OptiSurface Case Study: “This is a completely different field! No more ponding, damping off, salt accumulation. The water goes in as evenly as it goes on.” – Mark Dunn, Navada, USA http://www.optisurface.com/nevada-pivot/
Sugarcane to Macadamia conversion using OptiSurface to achieve floodplain drainage while preserving topsoil. News story from “The Land” Newspaper: http://www.optisurface.com/macadamia/
Design Of The Month
Smoothing a Melon Hole Field
This Melon Hole field needs to be smoothed out to eliminate ponding in gilgais with reasonable earthworks.
Existing Topography
Existing Drainage Analysis
Proposed Topography
The field was designed using OptiSurface 4Way allowing water to meaner across the field and exit to the boundaries. A ridge (red) subzone was used to prevent water from exiting to the west and let it follow the natural drainage path.
To reduce the large cuts, a subzone (brown) was used and the smoothing was reduced to 40 m/% while the rest of the field has the smoothing set to 100 m/%.
Proposed Cut/Fill Map
This resulted in less cuts where the brown subzones are and earthworks ended up at only 203 m3/ha.
Definition:Defines how rapidly the slopes can change. This effectively smooths the surface so the grade changes do not change too rapidly e.g. from minimum slope to maximum slope in a short distance.
A typical value is 100 m/% (300ft/%) but depends on how much soil you want to shift versus how smooth you want the finished design. The grade changes are calculated at every grid point.
For example, if the calculation grid spacing is set to 10m, and Smoothing Distance is set to 100 m/%, then at each grid point the slope can change a maximum of 0.1% (10/100). Eg from 0.1% to 0.2% at one grid point, then the next grid point it could go from 0.2% to 0.3%, etc
Note: You need to tick the tick box ‘ON’ to adjust the value and use this constraint in the calculations.
Displayed by:
Menu: Tools > Landform Design
Appearance:
Example:
The Cut/Fill Map shown below has the ‘Smoothing Subzones’ turned OFF to highlight the difference from the Cut/Fill Map shown above in the Design of the Month.
Areas with deep cuts and fills which are mainly due to the Smoothing Factor are lessened by reducing the Smoothing Distance.
Refer A Friend
Give a friend $200 off OptiSurface and get rewarded with $200 Amazon Gift Card yourself! Start Here.
Classifieds
We have clients looking for experienced earthmoving operators in Africa, France, Australia and USA. If you’re interested, contact support@optisurface.com
Subscribe
To subscribe to our newsletter, click HERE. If you have already done this and didn’t receive the newsletter in your email inbox, check your spam/junk folder.
Leave A Response
You must be logged in to post a comment.