Video Blogs: Three GPS Products Introduced at ESRI UC

July 15, 2010 By: Eric Gakstatter

Three new GPS/GNSS products introduced at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference. Following is a short description and short video taken of each.

Known for their creative and dynamic product development, JAVAD GNSS unveiled its Triumph V.S., a GNSS receiver for surveying and GIS data collection.

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, SBAS support.
Internal UHF, GSM, WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth transceivers (all antennae built-in)
3 megapixel camera.
4.3" wide touchscreen display.
Built-in inclinometer for automatical leveling adjustment.
Staking, data collection, data management, system management software features.

Ashtech showed off its new MobileMapper 100 handheld unit that supports GPS, GLONASS, and SBAS. Ashtech needed to bring out something to follow the MobileMapper CX and this fits the bill. The company says it's a GPS L1-only system, but it didn't take me long to find a menu for GPS L1 and GPS L2. Look for that announcement down the road. Joe Sass said they are going to have the handheld's internal antenna calibrated by the NGS so you won't need an external antenna for cm-level work.

SBAS mapping receiver pioneer Geneq introduced its SXBlue II-B GPS receiver that sports an internal DGPS 300 khz beacon receiver and the world's smallest combined GPS/beacon antenna. The U.S. NDGPS infrastructure is still kicking.