Tag Archives: gps

Capturing Today’s (and Tomorrow’s) Constellations

Access to all GNSS constellations provides better data, better results Enhancements made to improve the handling of satellite systems (also called constellations) and the increasing number of signals produced by these systems provide a tangible benefit to any solution that requires precise positioning.  Depending on the time of day and the geographical location, some of...

Citizen Geodesist

A GPS on Bench Marks odyssey Philip Melcher of Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group in Visalia, California, has submitted GPS on Bench Marks observations on an incredible 650 Bench Marks all up and down California in the last three years. We will ask Philip a few questions to find out how he has accomplished this,...

Let’s Get Something Straight

In my last Dis-Located column I wrote about the historic, economic, and unusual impact of the Potomac River dividing Maryland and Virginia, saying no other state border impacted either side quite like it. While that is true, several readers pointed out that there are other oddities among state borders created by surveyors or surveying mistakes....

22 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2022 – 14 of 22

Throughout January xyHt.com will feature the young geospatial professionals who are making a name for themselves in everything from surveying to geographic information systems. xyHt featured all of them in the January issue. Here we will spotlight one each day. Name: Ethan Schreuder Company: Woolpert Current Position: Survey Technician, UAS Subject Matter Expert/Pilot Age: 29...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 01/14/2022

GEOINT 2022 Innovative Tradecraft Competition Entries Open Jan. 12 MdGroup Acquires GeoCue Group Riverside Mfg. to Assemble Commercial GPS Receivers in the U.S Golden Software Facilitates Map Making and Data Export in Surfer Package Esri Book Demonstrates How Maps Enable Cross-Sector Civic Collaboration Hexagon and Dayou Partner to Bring High Accuracy GNSS Corrections to China...

Affordable GNSS: Post-Processing Kinematic in the Cloud

In 1990 I had the privilege to work with a group of pioneers in Canada in the early development of land surveying techniques using a revolutionary new technology known as global positioning system or GPS. Back then, there was only a handful of satellites and the availability of a workable constellation that would allow for...