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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 2 Comments

    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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  • Survey Perspectives – September 2007

    Aug 28, 2007 No Comments

    NAVCEN and the CGSIC I thought this would be a timely subject, since I’m heading off for two days of CGSIC/NAVCEN presentations before the ION GNSS 2007 conference starts on September 25. I’ll also be staying for the conference, and reporting back to you on what I hear there. NAVCEN is a...

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  • Survey Perspectives – August 2007

    Aug 28, 2007 No Comments

    GNSS Update,  Version 2.0 I, along with John Flick, co-authored a fairly in-depth piece on GNSS in the April 2006 issue of Geospatial Solutions. The basics of that article are still applicable, but here’s an update on GNSS events that have transpired since then — with a bit of speculation and g...

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  • Survey Perspectives – July 2007

    Jul 30, 2007 No Comments

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