WAAS Up? It’s been about a year since I’ve touched on WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) with any depth, and a lot of things are happening on that front so I’d thought I’d give an update. A...
Read More →The Dealer Shuffle Whether you live in London, Lagos, Lisbon, or Los Angeles, when you are looking to buy a survey instrument, most likely you have a “preferred” instrument distributor in ...
Read More →Getting Personal, Now Ok, this column is supposed to be about high-precision GNSS, right? Well, who would have ever thought I’d be inclined to write about consumer GPS receivers? Certainly not me. S...
Read More →Momentum is a powerful phenomenon. When thought of in terms of a moving object, its mass and velocity can be measured. In other respects, it’s immeasurable. Feelings of confidence, trust, and fa...
Read More →Need Clear Vision Well done on the editorial this month (“Skies Cloudy All Day,” October). I totally agree with you regarding the lack of clear vision for our GPS future. And I’m not...
Read More →This week, TerraGo Technologies announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with In-Q-Tel – an independent venture capital fund tasked with identifying new technologies for the Central ...
Read More →Constellation Viability We recently discovered that in a 5-day period three GPS satellites were taken off line indefinitely with no explanation as to possible return to service. This is significant in...
Read More →In a recent editorial in GPS World’s Survey & Construction e-newsletter entitled “No Joy in Surveyville,” Eric Gakstatter lamented the performance of the GPS constellation for su...
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