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...
Read More →Well, if the economy is going to tank … … at least our industry outlook is pretty good for the next five years. Hmmm … I guess I should clarify, because the survey/construction business is clearly slowing here in the United States (I probably don’t need to tell you that). But, if you want to...
Read More →Solar Activity: Is There Aspirin for This GNSS Headache? Like the hurricane/cyclone/typhoon seasons that occur every year around the globe, one fact of life about GNSS is space weather and the solar cycle. For professionals who use GNSS on a regular basis, it’s easy to forget about it since it...
Read More →ION GNSS Conference – Not This Year Well, it wasn’t meant to be. Hurricane Ike made sure of that. I travel quite a bit and I never fly Continental Airlines, but there aren’t a lot of choices when flying to Savannah, Georgia from Portland, Oregon. So a couple of months ago, I booked my ...
Read More →Civil P(Y) follow-up and ION GNSS I figure it’s about time for a follow-up newsletter on the Civil P(Y) sunset proposal by the GPS Wing. In June, I wrote a spoke briefly with Col. Madden, Commander of the GPS Wing, about the Civil P(Y) sunset proposal. Quite a straight-forward guy if I can say...
Read More →Attending the Annual ESRI Networking Conference As much as surveyors, engineers and constructors may not appreciate geographic information systems (GIS) technology, at some point everyone should attend at least the ESRI Survey/Engineering Summit and the first couple of days of the ESRI User Conferen...
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