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 | Business Outlook — RTK Crops Up in Precision Ag
| | GPS World | Most precision agriculture users have settled for 1-meter accuracy using GPS, made possible with the reliable and convenient corrections provided by WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System). GPS/GNSS is important to key areas in agriculture, including field mapping, yield mapping, and guidance. |
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| ARC Debuts Two New Antennas
| | | ARC Wireless Solutions Inc. today unveiled its Atlas combo GPS/cellular antenna and Titan GPS antenna, dubbing the Titan the flagship among its product line. |
|  | | Hemisphere GPS Shares the Wealth with Employees
| | | Hemisphere GPS has implemented a plan to assist its employees in purchasing shares of the company through an employee share purchase plan, while is vice chairman has established an automatic securities disposition plan. |
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 | | Perspectives — Early July 2008
| | The PNT.gov website provides users with an inside look at U.S. GPS policy, as well as the thoughts of those who influence that policy. The minutes from this spring's meeting of the PNT Advisory Board are worth looking through. In particular, the discussion on the number of optimal GPS satellites is positive. | | |
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 | Innovation: Brainy Positioning
| | | Primarily developed for computing applications, such as pattern recognition, neural networks have been adapted for use in several fields of science, including geodesy. Those adaptations are needed because usually the situations and problems encountered in computer science are different from those in other fields. Geodesy is no exception. |
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 | Mapping the Underworld: Testing GPS and GSM in Urban Canyons
| | | Beneath the streets lie thousands of kilometers of cables and pipes. Buried decades ago, their exact location remains a mystery. At the University of Nottingham, researchers tested GPS and a system that pairs GPS with Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) algorithms. Their goal: find a solution for mapping buried assets, which in turn will increase the efficiency of streetworks projects. |
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 | Steep-Slope Monitoring
| | | Although GPS is an efficient tool for deformation monitoring, it also is an expensive one for large projects. The authors developed a remote-controlled monitoring system using an electronic switching device for multiple antennas to monitor steep slopes at the Xiaowan hydropower station in China. |
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 | Measuring Mach 8
| | | The Benchmark Survey System, developed for the U.S. Air Force's Holloman High Speed Test Track. replaces legacy NGA conventional survey techniques with a GPS-only system, maintaining sub-millimeter positioning accuracy while increasing throughput by 400 percent, with an 85 percent decrease in manpower. Results agree with recent NGA precise survey data to better than 0.6 mm horizontal and better than 1.0 mm vertical. |
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 | In the Know Over Snow Leopards
| | GPS World | | In a first of its kind study, a female snow leopard was fitted with a GPS collar that will provide researchers with an unprecedented amount of precise data on snow leopard movements and habitat use. |
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