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  • Survey Perspectives – Early April 2008

    Apr 03, 2008 No Comments

    RTK Crops Up in Precision Agriculture Take a look at the major manufacturers of multi-frequency GNSS equipment and the markets they serve. Obviously, surveying is an important market; construction is a major one too. Maybe you’ve noticed that agriculture is also making its way up the food chai...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Late March 2008

    Mar 19, 2008 No Comments

    From A to B with PND I covered this subject a while back, but I think it’s time to revisit it. Personal navigation devices (PNDs) are still selling like crazy. If you don’t have one, someone you know does. Tens of millions of these things are being sold per year. If you don’t have ...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Early March 2008

    Mar 05, 2008 No Comments

    Catching Up There has been a lot of activity on both the civilian and military sides of GPS/GNSS these past few weeks. Instead of a central theme to this newsletter, I’m going to comment on three points of interest: a DoD directive regarding position, navigation, and timing; PRN32; and some ne...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Late February 2008

    Feb 21, 2008 No Comments

    With nearly 60 GPS engineers and scientists, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) is one of the biggest GPS R&D centers in the world today. It operates as a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which manages the lab for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Early February 2008

    Feb 07, 2008 1 Comment

    DOT Throws NDGPS a Life Preserver It appears the US Department of Transportation has bought the Nationwide Differential GPS system (NDGPS) another year. The FY09 Presidential Budget Request was released earlier this week, and it contains a line item in the Research and Innovative Technology Administ...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Late January 2008

    Jan 16, 2008 No Comments

    3D Machine Control One of the hotter topics in the construction industry these days is GPS/GNSS. If any of you attend the World of Concrete exhibition in Las Vegas, you’ll see many examples of how GNSS is being implemented in construction environments. The exhibition is expected to attract more th...

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  • Survey Perspectives – Early January 2008

    Jan 11, 2008 No Comments

    GPS On the GPS front, I’m going to paraphrase, plagiarize, and otherwise copy from my fellow newsletter editor Don Jewell, who writes the Military & Government PNT newsletter. He spent decades on the inside looking out (think Lt. Col. Jewell) and offers interesting perspectives. First off...

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  • Survey Perspectives – October 2007

    Oct 25, 2007 No Comments

    ION GNSS 2007 Report I hope some of you had a chance to read my ION GNSS conference blog, as well as those of my fellow editors who attended the conference. I think Editor-in-Chief Alan Cameron’s brainstorm about this was very good, and I expect we will repeat next year. If you missed it, you ...

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