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GPS Simplified Part 3 – Measurements
Measuring tapes measure short distances, levels measure, well, level, and watches measure time. What do GPS rovers measure? Coordinates. GPS measures coordinates, then our data collector uses the coordinates to let us measure all kinds of things on our site. Lengths, widths, distances, basically whatever needs to be measured. Because it’s based on our site…
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The Rundown 003 – Accuracy vs Precision
Accuracy and precision are 2 terms that seem to get thrown around quite a bit in the 3D GPS and grading world. Most of the time they are used interchangeably, like they mean the same thing. Catch phrases almost. High Precision Grading, High Accuracy GPS Positioning, it all means the same thing right? Actually, they…
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GPS Simplified Part 2 – Base Station
So now that you have a very basic understanding of how GPS positioning works, let’s dive a little deeper. We all know about handheld GPS, which could be a handheld Garmin that you have for hunting, or a SPOT emergency locating device, but most of us just think of our smartphones now. For the purpose…
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GPS Simplified Part 1 – Satellites
GPS satellites are one of those things in our world that work really well, but no one knows how they work. In fact, life would be perfectly fine if we didn’t know how they work. But when we use GPS every day all day, we should know how they work. At least a little bit.…
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The Rundown 002 – 3D Grading
Here’s the rundown if you’re brand new to the idea of 3D machine control grading. The most common piece of heavy civil construction equipment that you’ll find 3D GPS Machine Control on is the bulldozer. Yes there are different types of machine control you can put on a dozer, maybe we’ll get to them on…
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The Rundown 001 – Why is GPS Data Prep so important?
You may have heard us, as well as others, mention how important the data in your construction GPS is. The truth is, it doesn’t matter what GPS system you’re running on site, if you can’t trust the data that’s in it, you may as well leave it in the backseat of the truck. Here’s 3…
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