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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 25, 2011
Updates & Upgrades In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup, I want to explain a few site upgrades in addition to this week’s summary. If you are a regular visitor here, you’ve no doubt noticed a new look. You also might have found some of the site features updated, too. What’s happening, simply is…
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Locata Passes Critical U.S. Air Force Ground-Based Positioning System Design Review Milestone
Locata Passes Critical Design Review Milestone for U.S. Air Force Ground-Based Positioning System Locata Prototypes a System for Centimeter-Accurate Positioning Over Large Areas When GPS Is Completely Denied IRVINE, CA and CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire – Sep 8, 2011) – Locata Corporation today announced it has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) contract phase for a Locata network…
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GAO Reports NOAA and NASA Improvements Needed for GOES Satellite Coverage Gap
The following information is taken from the “Highlights” page of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the GAO’s study and evaluation of how ready NOAA and NASA are for a possible satellite coverage gap from April to October 2015. This potential gap in satellite coverage is attributable to contract delays and the probable failing…
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USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online
Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as…
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Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network
Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2011 – Defense Department officials are raising concerns that a company’s proposed wireless broadband network would cause harmful interference to essential Global Positioning System operations. LightSquared’s new terrestrial network has the potential to wreak havoc on GPS systems…
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Professional Land Surveyor News-New Residential Construction Down in July 2011
Permits For New Housing Units Fell 3.2 Percent Following a Small Increase in June The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released data on new residential construction for July 2011. Permits for new housing units fell 3.2 percent following a small increase in June. Private-sector analysts had expected a 1.8-percent decline. The decrease was driven by multi-family homes…
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What if LightSquared is Right about GPS?
LightSquared Files with FCC: GPS Industry’s Failure to Comply With Department of Defense and International Standards for GPS Receivers Cause of Interference So, I’ve been thinking lately about how the land surveying industry has not demanded and been stewards for improvements, necessary and long overdue improvements, in various aspects of the resources and technologies we…
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Construction Backlog Up 10 Percent In Second Quarter
August 16, 2011 Washington, D.C. – Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today reports that its Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) increased 10 percent in the second quarter of 2011 to an average of 8.1 months, up from 7.3 months the previous quarter. The CBI is 12 percent higher than one year ago. CBI is a forward-looking…
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Phil Staub of Garmin Explains the Threat to GPS from the LightSquared Broadband Plan
Phil Staub of Garmin explains the threat to GPS from the LightSquared broadband plan. Recorded at AirVenture 2011. This is a good video explaining, in general terms, what the situation is with the GPS vs. LightSquared issue. Watch the Threat to GPS Video
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FCC Chairman Promises to Protect GPS from LightSquared Interference
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tells reporters that the FCC will not allow interference to GPS from the proposed LightSquared hybrid satellite/terrestrial broadband wireless service. At yesterday’s press conference with reporters after the FCC’s Aug. 9 monthly meeting, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski made very encouraging comments concerning LightSquared’s January waiver concerning the more recent testing results showing overwhelming…
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Let the FCC Know About the Threat that LightSquared Poses to GPS
HELP SAVE OUR GPS! Please Submit your Comments to the FCC by July 30 Background In January, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conditionally allowed a company called LightSquared to offer wireless broadband services in radio frequency bands adjacent to those used by GPS receivers. Based on feedback from public and private sector GPS users, the…
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Professional Land Surveyor News-U.S. Geological Survey Awarded JAVAD GNSS up to $3.9M Contract
Professional Land Surveyor News-U.S. Geological Survey Awarded JAVAD GNSS up to $3.9M Contract The Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, has awarded contract G10PC00160 resulting from competitive solicitation 10WRSS0010 to JAVAD GNSS, Inc. of San Jose, CA. The contract is an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity contract for various configurations of GPS/GNSS receivers and antennas with a five…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: USAF Begins Test Satellite GPS IIF Transmission of L5 Signal
Professional Land Surveyor News: USAF Begins Test Satellite GPS IIF Transmission of L5 Signal LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, El Segundo, Calif. — Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced that the first GPS IIF satellite, launched May 27, 2010, has begun test transmissions of the new Safety-of-Life (L5) navigation…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Air Force Upgrades GPS Constellation
Professional Land Surveyor News: Air Force Upgrades GPS Constellation SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The 2nd and 19th Space Operations Squadron will soon take control of the Air Force’s newest GPS satellite following its tentative launch into orbit May 27 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GPS IIF SV-1 satellite represents a…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: GeoEye Receives U.S. Government Contract Award for New Web Mapping Service
Professional Land Surveyor News: GeoEye Receives U.S. Government Contract Award for New Web Mapping Service GeoEye, Inc., announced this week that it has signed a modification to a contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide Web mapping services under the NGA’s Rapid Delivery of Online GEOINT (RDOG) program. This contract modification was made…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Newest NOAA Geostationary Satellite Reaches Orbit
Here’s a news article from earlier this month that I missed, but thought was interesting. Besides, the picture of the rocket taking off is pretty cool, too! Newest NOAA Geostationary Satellite Reaches Orbit GOES-P has improved severe weather, solar storm detection capabilities March 4, 2010 NOAA and NASA officials announced a new Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: FEMA and NOAA Renew Partnership to Encourage Flood Safety
FEMA and NOAA Renew Partnership to Encourage Flood Safety March 15, 2010 As one of the snowiest winter seasons in many years yields to warmer weather and the promise of rain and snowmelt, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s FloodSmart Campaign and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they are again working together during Flood…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: MAPPS Seeks Legislation in Congress to Authorize “Imagery For The Nation”
MAPPS Seeks Legislation in Congress to Authorize “Imagery for the Nation” “Making America Prosperous (MAP) Act” Would Create National Geospatial Image Maps A bill to authorize the program known within the geospatial community as “Imagery for the Nation” is being presented for introduction in Congress, MAPPS announced today. “‘Map it once, use it many times’ is…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble Acquires LET Systems to Expand its Utilities Solutions for Smart Grid Outage and Incident Management
Trimble Acquires LET Systems to Expand its Utilities Solutions for Smart Grid Outage and Incident Management SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 5, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today it has acquired privately-held LET Systems based in Cork, Ireland. LET Systems is an internationally recognized leader in incident and outage management system (OMS) solutions for utilities. The…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: FEMA Announces That eLOMA Is Available Again
FEMA Announces That eLOMA Is Available Again The other day I told you FEMA announced that the eLOMA process was temporarily unavailable. Also, FEMA would not be issuing Letters of Map Amendment (LOMA). This was because Congress did not reauthorize funding for FEMA, along with other programs such as extension of the current highway bill and…