Tag Archives: gnss
The Value of Location Tech
The term “location tech” has been around for a long time, but recently it seems to have been co-opted by Silicon Valley and the makers of consumer technologies. This is epitomized by the most prevalent tech that has rudimentary but ubiquitous location capability: phones. It’s estimated that as many as 65% of cellphone apps access...
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RTCM
Real-time correction messages: Why this is important and where it’s going Most professional users of GNSS equipment are familiar with the term RTCM. You likely understand that RTCM is a language that is used for delivering real-time corrections to rovers. But that’s usually where the understanding of RTCM stops. This article outlines what RTCM is,...
![“A survey vessel with the RTK Bridge installed served as our base, capturing and rebroadcasting RTK network corrections to our second vessel equipped with a rover.”](/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Survey_Vessel-272x192.jpg)
Going for the Long Shot
Intuicom’s RTK Bridge has come a long way, including use for hydrographic surveying. Editor’s note: A product name can become a default term for a particular solution; this is the case with the RTK Bridge, a trademark name for the product that Intuicom, radio communications component company, began working on nearly a decade ago. And...
![Figure 1 A control traverse example.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Figure-1-featured-272x192.jpg)
I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Statistics
Surveying Statistics, Part 1 Do you perform GNSS surveys? Do you use OPUS or perform RTK surveys simply because you don’t understand your software’s output? Do you always use the compass-rule adjustment for traverse data simply because that’s the way you have always done it? Do you ever have a situation where you know something...
![RFID tags take many forms. The inside of a tag shown above— designed to attach to metal infrastructure in harsh environments, such as water pipes and valves—has a thin copper “bow-tie” antenna with a minuscule chip in the middle. It’s shown contrasted with a grain of rice.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150304_100159-272x192.jpg)
RFID
Above: RFID tags take many forms. The inside of a tag shown above—designed to attach to metal infrastructure in harsh environments, such as water pipes and valves—has a thin copper “bow-tie” antenna with a minuscule chip in the middle. It’s shown contrasted with a grain of rice. An electronic handshake has brought together the worlds...
![The R1 is a small Bluetooth peripheral GNSS receiver that is purpose-designed for mapping-grade uses.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_8975a_edit-272x192.jpg)
Mapping Peripheral
A review of Trimble’s R1, a GNSS Bluetooth peripheral for mobile devices, with multiple options for correction sources. The idea of a GNSS “puck” has broad appeal: a peripheral GNSS receiver to precision-enable mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, and a variety of purpose-built field-data-collection devices. There is a lot of functional territory between...