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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...

What’s Inside Your GNSS Rover? Part 1

The venerable GNSS rover, has evolved into an essential part of a surveyor’s toolkit, although some mystery remains as to what that magic box does and how it does it. To demystify this, we engaged GNSS engineers to help craft this three-part “explainer” series. Part one  The work of a surveyor requires a lot of...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 03/25/2022

Congress Passes Act to Modernize Access to our Public Land  NSPS Virtual Day on the Hill is March 30  Qualcomm and Trimble Introduce Meter-Level Location Accuracy for Smartphones  ProStar Announces Trimble Integration of PointMan for Apple iOS  University of Plymouth and Sonardyne Advance Development of Marine Monitoring Technology  JOIN and DMP to Create High-Definition Map...

A Better GNSS?

With America, Russia, China, and the EU all now having GNSS constellations operating, what does it mean for surveyors and geospatial professionals?

xyHt News Links: 3/11/16

Trimble 4D Control Software Supports IBIS-FM Radar Device for Slope Stability and Structural Monitoring in Mining TerraGo Launches On-Demand Solution for Mobile Forms, Inspections and Surveys Topcon announces new geodetic antenna Maptek modelling and exploration technology on show at PDAC Teledyne Optech Press Release: Innovative solutions for bathymetry at Oceanology International 2016 3DR collaborates with...