What Is GNSS and How It Works in Surveying
Every time a Canadian land surveyor drives a stake into frozen ground or a civil engineer signs off on a subdivision boundary, there’s an invisible
Every time a Canadian land surveyor drives a stake into frozen ground or a civil engineer signs off on a subdivision boundary, there’s an invisible
The same GPS signal that tells your phone you’re standing outside a coffee shop is capable, with the right technology, of telling a land surveyor
Before a single stake goes in the ground or a machine moves a cubic metre of earth, someone has already mapped every slope, boundary, and
Before a single stake goes in the ground on a Canadian land development project, dozens of decisions have already been made, about zoning, servicing, environmental
Canada manages more than 347 million hectares of forest land, the third largest forest area in the world. Yet the precision required to manage it
A subdivision gets built on the wrong lot. A highway alignment drifts two metres off centerline. A boundary dispute ends up in court. These are
Every coordinate you collect starts with a satellite signal traveling 20,000 kilometers through the atmosphere to reach your receiver. That signal gets delayed by water
A surveyor used to spend two days setting ground control across a 50-acre subdivision. Now that same site gets mapped in 45 minutes from the
Canada presents unique challenges that make base station ownership more than a convenience. When you’re working on subdivision layouts in rural Alberta, monitoring projects in
When you set up your rover or base station, you’ll see options to enable different constellations in your receiver settings. GPS alone? GPS + GLONASS?