Tag: Positioning
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Ashtech Releases New Firmware and Radio Option for ProFlex GNSS Receivers
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…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: NOAA Releases Real-Time RTK Guidelines
Professional Land Surveyor News: NOAA Releases Real-Time RTK Guidelines This is a press release published by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) with important information for professional land surveyors who are using Real-Time GNSS positioning. NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) recently announced the approval and release of a document titled “National Geodetic Survey User Guidelines for…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson EMEA BV Opens in the Netherlands to Serve Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Markets
Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson EMEA BV Opens in the Netherlands to Serve Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Markets THE NETHERLANDS – Carlson Software, U.S.-based developer of technically advanced design software for land surveying, civil engineering, construction and mining industries, established a wholly owned subsidiary, Carlson EMEA BV, this June in the Netherlands to support…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson Software & Transtronic AB Reach Mutual Development & Distribution Agreement for 3D GNSS Drilling Solutions
Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson Software & Transtronic AB Reach Mutual Development & Distribution Agreement for 3D GNSS Drilling Solutions Here’s an interesting press release that I originally found interesting, but thought at the time that it was not overly relevant to professional land surveyors. Since then, however, with the catastrophic BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson’s New SurvPC Data Collection Software
Professional Land Surveyor News: Carlson’s New SurvPC Data Collection Software Provides SurvCE Power on a Windows® PC If you currently use a Windows PC, such as a ruggedized laptop and Carlson SurvCE, or are considering switching to or adding either to your surveyor’s toolbox, here’s a good piece of news: Carlson has just released Carlson SurvPC, a…
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GNSS Positioning Short Course Sponsored by New England Section ACSM and CALS
GNSS Positioning Short Course Sponsored by New England Section ACSM and CALS The New England Section ACSM and CALS are proud to present a GNSS Positioning Short Course offered on five consecutive Saturdays this summer starting on July 10, 2010 and ending on August 7, 2010. Each Saturday class begins at 8 am and ends…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology
Professional Land Surveyor News: Topcon DL-500 Digital Level Series With First ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced this week that they’ve released their new DL-500 digital levels series, which uses digital ‘Wave-and-Read’ Technology for the very first time. Of course we’ve had optical ‘Wave-and-Read’ technology for eons – it’s called an instrument person looking…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: GeoTagging is Illegal in China
Professional Land Surveyor News: GeoTagging is Illegal in China Today I found this interesting article by Expert Reviews, which reveals that the Communist China Government has made GeoTagging illegal. This is a fascinating story and union of two unlikely pairings – a camera review and surveying in China. It seems that Expert Reviews was, well, doing an…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Trimble to Offer More Acres of Sub-Inch Accuracy with VRS Now Ag Service
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…
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Professional Land Surveyor News-Trimble Introduces New Additions to its Optical Total Station Portfolio
Trimble Introduces New Additions to its Optical Total Station Portfolio SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) introduced today a wide range of new additions to its innovative portfolio of optical survey systems, giving surveyors a comprehensive selection of solutions for surveying and engineering applications. “Surveying firms require flexible and integrated solutions to stay…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Autodesk and Trimble Create AutoCAD Civil 3D Data Exchange Tool to Help Break Down Barrier Between Engineering and Construction
Autodesk and Trimble Create AutoCAD Civil 3D Data Exchange Tool to Help Break Down Barrier Between Engineering and Construction Extension Enables Automated Data Exchange Between AutoCAD Civil 3D Model and Trimble Construction Solutions SUNNYVALE and SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 6, 2009 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that they have collaborated…
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Hemisphere GPS and Handheld Group Announce Strategic Partnership and A New DGPS Receiver
ARLSRUHE, Germany, Sept. 22 /CNW/ – (TSX: HEM) Hemisphere GPS and Handheld Group jointly announced their strategic partnership today from the InterGeo Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. Through this partnership, Hemisphere GPS offers a custom version of its advanced GPS receiver technology to the GIS data collection market as the Handheld-branded Kenaz DGPS receiver. The new…
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Could Worldwide GPS Die in 2010?
Houston, we have a problem….. For over a month now there has been some chatter regarding the stability and reliability of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and now there is a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) with some very disturbing news concerning the GPS system as we move into the very near…
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NEWS RELEASE – OnPOZ Precision Positioning Entered Into an Agreement With LandMark Systems to Distribute its GNSS Products in North America
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, February 3th, 2009 OnPOZ Precision Positioning has entered into an agreement with LandMark Systems to distribute its GNSS products into the North American forest industry. This agreement mainly focuses on the distribution of SubX™ GNSS receiver as well as on the software solution for data acquisition and post-processing. “We have developed specific…