Editorial Advisory Board PNT Q&A: Receiver grades defined
October 7, 2019
We used to divide GPS receivers into consumer grade, resource grade and survey grade. Have these categories been […]
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We used to divide GPS receivers into consumer grade, resource grade and survey grade. Have these categories been […]
Orthometric height support (survey-grade elevations) enables Arrow GNSS receivers to collect high-accuracy, survey-grade vertical data with any data-collection […]
Skycatch has announced an on-premise data processing and GNSS base station, the Skycatch Edge1, manufactured in partnership with […]
GPS + BDS RTKA GNSS receiver that can supply raw pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements now costs only a few hundred dollars, and in this month’s column, a couple of researchers from Down Under pit a couple of these receivers up against a couple of survey-grade receivers.
When asked to do a small survey job overseas, we were concerned about shipping bulky and expensive survey equipment. Shipping costs are not trivial. Add to that the real possibility that your survey equipment may be confiscated by the local authorities, as ours was in Djibouti, and the cost of shipping equipment becomes a substantial part of the overall job. There should be alternatives, especially if accuracy requirements are not stringent.
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