Thanks to those who attended my webinar last month entitled A Buyer’s Guide to GPS/GNSS Survey Equipment. I received many questions during the webinar and answered a few during the event. As with my webinar last October , I’ll post the questions and my comments here. Question #1: When using ...
Read More →A reader wrote me about occupation times for RTK work, and it’s spurred a conversation I think will be interesting to you and perhaps a little controversial. It seems that most GPS/GNSS users have developed their own opinion based on their own experience. The discussion has several points, but the...
Read More →I try to stay current on all the business happenings, product introductions, etc. throughout the year and occasionally report on them. Back in my November 2008 column, I discussed the huge price disparity between various real-time kinematic (RTK) systems on the market. One of the products I featured...
Read More →2009 – The Year of the Other GNSS Being December, it’s time for my look into next year. It’s become somewhat of a tradition for me and this year is no different. What does 2009 have in store for the GNSS user? GPS will push forward in 2009 with the launch of the two remaining IIR-M satellites ...
Read More →The GNSS Election ’08: a Victory for the Surveyor At the annual ION GNSS conference in Savannah, Georgia, in September, GPS World magazine hosted its third annual Leadership Dinner. Many of the world’s leading GNSS experts attend this dinner. Those experts include research scientists, pr...
Read More →Oh, What to Buy in These Challenging Times I receive many requests for advice and/or recommendations from folks who are looking to buy GPS/GNSS equipment for survey and construction. Of course, if they haven’t told me, the first question I ask is, for what type of project are they are planning...
Read More →Questions from the Webinar: Is Dual-Frequency GPS — As We Know It — Becoming Obsolete? First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who attended my webinar a couple of weeks ago. I received many, many questions during the presentation and answered a few of these during the event, but there was...
Read More →On October 28 GPS World survey and construction Editor Eric Gakstatter will be discussing the U.S. Department of Defense GPS Wing’s proposal to discontinue supporting Civil P(Y) semi-codeless on GPS L1 and L2 after December 31, 2020 — rendering a massive amount of high-precision GPS equipmen...
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