GPS Simplified
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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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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.…
SmartSite Construction Tech - GPS Data Prep and 3D Machine Control Modelling 