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Topcon GR-5 Satellite Receiver Sets New Standard in Signal Tracking, Job Site Precision

March 28, 2011 in Associate Membership, Business, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Topcon

 

Topcon’s GR-5 satellite receiver

LIVERMORE, Calif. – March 17, 2011 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its patented Fence AntennaTM technology and expanded channel support in the new GR-5 GNSS receiver. The GR-5 provides industry-leading tracking sensitivity and multipath rejection in a compact and lightweight package.

In 2006, Topcon introduced the GR-3 GNSS receiver, which made the term “precise positioning” commonplace, and set the global standard for satellite signal reception and job site accuracy. The arrival of the GR-5 raises the bar again: the best just got better.

Ray O’Connor, president and CEO of TPS, said, “Topcon’s innovative Universal Signal Tracking and patented antenna technologies are the foundation of the new GR-5. With 216 channels and multi-constellation tracking, the GR-5 guarantees that an investment in Topcon’s industry-leading technology today will pay dividends into the foreseeable future.”

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Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series

November 9, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Topcon

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Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News-Topcon Introduces QS Robotic Total Station Series

LIVERMORE, Calif. – November 8, 2010 – Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) introduces its new generation of robotic total stations, the QS Series (Quick Station).

The QS Series – featuring the X-TRAC 8 prism tracking technology – is designed to “provide unprecedented power and speed to dramatically enhance productivity and save time and money on every job,” said Denny Welch, senior vice president of the TPS survey business unit.

Welch said, “The QS Series can be summed up in four words: Faster. Smarter. Farther. Stronger.

“With the new X-TRAC 8 technology, strong tracking and quick prism re-acquisition in any work site condition is assured. The QS represents around-the-corner design and technology that provides increased performance in even the most obstructed sites. Topcon continues to be an industry leader with long-range power (2000m / 6500 feet reflectorless EDM technology). The QS is built to withstand the most adverse working conditions and the toughest job site locations,” Welch said.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Ashtech Releases New Firmware and Radio Option for ProFlex GNSS Receivers

July 6, 2010 in Ashtech, Associate Membership, Business, GNSS, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News


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Professional Land Surveyor News

Ashtech® has introduced a new GNSS firmware upgrade for the entire ProFlex™ line of products, including the ProFlex 500, ProFlex 500 Marine, ProFlex 500 CORS, ProFlex Lite and ProFlex Lite Duo.

The new firmware features as standard:

  • Hot Stand-By RTK: Doubles the assurance that an RTK position is always available and robust.
  • Advanced Raw Data Quality: Multi-criterion internal observation masks optimize raw data depending on reception parameters and the dynamics of the receiver.
  • Ashtech Optimized Messaging (ATOM) format: Freedom from radio link throughput issues using the new compact and ultra compact scenario of ATOM format.
  • RTC Bridge for ProFlex 500 only: Extends the number of users working in a given area by allowing one of them to forward its corrections, received through GPRS, to others through a radio link, thus saving money on mobile communication fees.
  • Legacy DBEN Base format support for ProFlex Lite only: Transit smoothly from legacy Ashtech sensors generation to the newest generation.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble to Offer More Acres of Sub-Inch Accuracy with VRS Now Ag Service

March 24, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Surveying Software, Trimble, Trimble

Professional Land Surveyor News

Professional Land Surveyor News

Trimble to Offer More Acres of Sub-Inch Accuracy with VRS Now Ag Service

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 24, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the launch of Trimble® VRS Now™ Ag service for farmers in nine U.S. states—Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Nebraska. Additionally, European growers can receive correction services in Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and Estonia. As with corrections supplied by conventional Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) radio towers, Trimble VRS™ network corrections provide sub-inch repeatable Global Positioning System (GPS) accuracy for precision farming operations such as tillage, planting, spraying and field preparation.

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Sokkia Introduces the GRX1, Highly Versatile GNSS System

January 5, 2010 in Associate Membership, Business, GPS, Land Surveying, Land Surveying Equipment, News, Sokkia

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Professional Land Surveyor News: Sokkia Introduces the GRX1, Highly Versatile GNSS System

Incorporates fully scalable GNSS receiver, new data collector and software.
Olathe, Kansas – Sokkia Corporation announces the new GRX1 GNSS system that includes the new SHC250 data collector, as well as a new controller and post-processing software.
Denny Welch, senior vice president and general manager, Survey Business Unit, said, “These new products further strengthen the entire Sokkia product lineup.”

He said the new GRX1 GNSS receiver has an integrated antenna, digital UHF radio, GSM module, Bluetooth® module and detachable battery in a “compact, rugged, magnesium-alloy body.” Its fully upgradeable features “allow users to start with an entry model for L1 GPS that can be upgraded to L1 GPS+GLONASS, to L1/L2 GPS, up to 72-channel L1/L2 GPS+GLONASS receiver.”

The new SHC250 data collector incorporates the latest Windows Mobile® 6.5 OS, built-in Bluetooth modem and the new Spectrum Survey Field software “that fully controls the GRX1 receiver with unsurpassed ease and speed,” Welch said.

“This new GNSS system provides unmatched versatility and usability in RTK, network RTK and static applications that require millimeter or centimeter positioning accuracy,” he said.

The GRX1 GNSS receiver features:
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Paul Harvey – 1918 – 2009 RIP

March 3, 2009 in Associate Membership, General, Land Surveying

Paul Harvey 1918-2009

Paul Harvey – 1918 – 2009, a broadcasting pioneer known for his staccato delivery died Saturday in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 90.

I can’t tell you how many times we would listen to Paul Harvey while having lunch, on coffee breaks, rain delays, or travelling between surveys. Most of the field crews I worked on listened to him religiously.

I’ll miss the “Bumper Snickers” and “The Rest of the Story” the most, I think.

Thanks, Paul, you’re an original and will be missed.

Listen to a Paul Harvey Tribute

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