Tag Archives: gnss
GPS Finds Its Way into the Future
As the pioneering satnav program celebrates half a century of success, it must overcome setbacks to its modernization plans in order to pull off a new era of global PNT leadership
What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 3
The third and final installment of a look at the inner workings of high-precision surveying rovers. In parts one and two, which appeared in the two previous issues, we focused on antennas, amplification, housing, channels, boards, and gates. This installment continues with signal matching, positioning engines, and additional components. Matching Signals To distill the observed...
What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 2
The second installment of a three-part look at the inner workings of high-precision surveying rovers. In Part One of this series (xyHt magazine, September 2023 issue) we focused on the antenna, amplification, and housing elements of rovers. This installment continues with channels, boards, and gates. Channels There is a lot of misunderstanding about what receiver...
Why Opus Projects? Part 2 of 2
OPUS Projects Streamlines Submitting GPS Surveys to National Geodetic Survey By Philippe Hensel with Dan Gillins, Dan Martin and Julie Prusky “Texas Special Reference Center (TSRC) of Conrad Blucher Institute is leading the efforts toward modernization of the horizontal and vertical datums in the State of Texas, particularly in the subsidence zone in southeast Texas....
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/20/2023
Trimble Donates $100,000 to World Food Program USA’s Erase Children’s Hunger Campaign Impressions of INTERGEO 2023 Hexagon expands TerraStar-X GNSS correction service to South Korea Geo Week 2024: Where Innovation and Transformation Converge Alfred State wins NCEES Surveying Education Award Trimble Opens Two Technology Labs at The Ohio State University to Advance the Next Generation...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 10/13/2023
SOCOTEC’s European Projects to Benefit from Topcon Monitoring Technology CNH Completes Purchase of Hemisphere GNSS CentralSquare Technologies and DATAMARK Partner to Enhance GIS Data Mapping for Emergency Response Bringing Geospatial Context to the Metaverse: Considerations for the Next Steps Bluesky Aerial Maps Improve Efficiency for Forest Surveys Trimble Monitoring Software Expands Sensor Support for Broader...
