Tag: Precision
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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: Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing Reduces Flight Lines and Increases Productivity
Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing Reduces Flight Lines and Increases Productivity Today, Leica Geosystems announced that their leading line sensor workflow, the Leica XPro, has been updated with new features. Leica XPro 4.3 – HiRes Ortho Processing provides advanced ground processing from data download to image generation and users of the…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Angle Format Settings
This is the fourth of five AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. The fourth of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to know was, “Angle Format Settings“, which is explained…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: NVIDIA Quadro Lets AutoCAD 2011 Designers Achieve Maximum Productivity
Professional Land Surveyor News: NVIDIA Quadro Lets AutoCAD 2011 Designers Achieve Maximum Productivity. NVIDIA has announced improved workflows for AutoCAD 2011 designers using NVIDIA® Quadro® certified graphics processing units (GPUs). NVIDIA promises visual accuracy, fast 3D performance and high reliability with their Quadro professional graphics solutions. About NVIDIA and Autodesk NVIDIA first shook up the computer graphics…
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Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System
Professional Land Surveyor News-PPI Adds New Topcon Precision Mobile 3D Mapping and Survey System. Here’s some recent news about one company, the PPI Group, that is using cutting edge surveying and mapping solutions for infrastructure and mapping projects. To do this they are using Topcon’s vehicle-mounted, mobile 3D precision mobile mapping and survey system, the Topcon…
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Professional Land Surveyor News: Leica Geosystems Launches SmartNet North America
Leica Geosystems Launches SmartNet North America 1 March 2010 (Norcross, GA., 1 March 2010) – Leica Geosystems, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of SmartNet North America. SmartNet is a subscription based service offering GNSS Network RTK corrections throughout North America with Leica Geosystems directly operating, managing, and maintaining all segments of the network.…
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5 Nice Features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Parcels
5 Nice Features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 Parcels I was recently working on converting an older AutoCAD drawing to an AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 drawing in order to modify a parcel and add a few new parcels to it. Also recently, I’ve been writing a soon to be released article about whether or not…
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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…