 | Out in Front: Welling Up July 1, 2010
Article By: Alan Cameron One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine’s September 1992 issue. A salient passage from that 18-year-old “Quality Control For Differential GPS in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration” article:...More>> |
 | Mining Webinar Follow-up: Locata Interview, Poll Results June 16, 2010
Article By: Rob Lorimer Thanks to all who attended last month’s webinar on the application of positioning in open-pit mining. As usual, in this month’s newsletter we will provide the webinar poll results and also try and answer the questions we were unable to get to during the hour. More>> |
 | Mining Boom Spurs New Positioning Solutions May 19, 2010
Article By: Rob Lorimer, Geoff Roberts Open-pit mining (also called open-cut, open-cast, and strip mining) has historically been an early and innovative adopter of new positioning technologies. Some of the earliest examples of fitting GPS to heavy earth-moving machinery occurred in the U.S., Australian, and Canadian mining industries in...More>> |
 | Collision Avoidance in the Mining Industry July 22, 2009
Article By: Rob Lorimer Safety is a hot topic in the mining industry. Fatalities and lost-time injuries (a measure of safety performance) have started to increase after more than a decade of steady decline, which is worrying both governments and mining companies. Can GPS play a role in reversing the trend?More>> |
 | GPS on Machines: Webinar Polls, Questions Revisited June 17, 2009
Article By: Rob Lorimer Thanks to everyone who attended last month's webinar, "GPS on Machines: Applications, Markets, Trends and Technologies." We had nearly 600 registrants, which is a great endorsement for the GPS World webinar series. An additional special thanks to our webinar sponsors NovAtel and Septentrio. During...More>> |
 | Where Does N-RTK Fit for Machine-Control Users? February 17, 2009
Article By: Rob Lorimer Machine-control users do not make a habit of consuming N-RTK services. As machine-based RTK inexorably becomes the most numerous user group, this poses some interesting challenges for N-RTK owners and operators.More>> |
 | Leadership Talks: Seeds of Growth July 1, 2007
Article By: GPS World Staff Michael L. Whitehead (MW), chief scientist at Hemisphere GPS, leads a team of engineers designing applications in machine control, guidance, marine, and survey. Managing Editor Tracy Cozzens (TC) spoke with him on June 4.More>> |
