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F4Devices Announces Flint Rugged Handheld

March 1, 2012

F4Devices, a subsidiary of F4 Tech and strategic partner with BAP Precisions, Taiwan, has introduced a new generation of high-precision GNSS devices for GIS field applications, the Flint rugged handheld. With the new Flint handheld, field workers requiring a rugged mobile handheld device have a unit that is lightweight, compact, rugged, and cost-effective, the company said. The Flint fits well into GIS field data collection markets such as municipalities, oil and gas and forestry, F4Devices said.


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On the Edge: History Underfoot

January 1, 2012

Beneath the surface of a tropical paradise in the city of Townsville on Australia’s Sunshine Coast lies a hidden maze of tunnels and underground bunkers, once said to be used by General Douglas MacArthur. Learning the secrets of this labyrinth that was a major World War II staging point for battles in the Southwest Pacific is the passion of Kevin Parkes of Geo Positioning Services, Townsville.


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On the Edge: Tracking Slips and Creeps: Earthquake Monitoring Gets Substantial Boost from GPS

July 1, 2011

The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, being deformed as earthquake faults accumulate strain, and slip or slowly creep over time. Not long ago, scientists relied solely on seismometers to monitor the earth’s movements. Today, GPS has taken prominence as an indispensible tool. PANGA, the monitoring network covering the Pacific Northwest, uses GPS to monitor this movement by measuring the precise position (within 5 millimeters or less) of stations near active faults relative to each other. By determining how the stations have moved, ground deformation can be determined.


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Iraq on the Map: Installing Reference Stations for Accurate Engineering

March 1, 2011

As a geodetic surveyor, I served in the U.S Army for 10 years. During that time, my team and I developed a nationwide GPS infrastructure system called the Iraqi Geospatial Reference System (IGRS). We installed Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) and High Accuracy Reference Network Stations (HARNS), the first Iraqi owned and maintained system of its type.


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Sparse Network: Wide-Area, Sub-Decimeter Positioning for Airborne LiDAR Surveys

October 1, 2010

The use of a precise wide-area positioning technique for airborne trajectory solutions for LiDAR surveys provides both relative and absolute accuracies similar to those derived from using a local GNSS reference station.


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Trimble NetR9 Reference Receiver Aimed at Infrastructure, Scientific, and Network Apps

April 13, 2010

Trimble today introduced an innovative Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reference receiver for infrastructure, precise scientific, and network applications. The Trimble NetR9 GNSS reference receiver is a Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) receiver that can support the demanding applications for the earth science community and for the surveying, construction, mapping, and agricultural industries, Trimble said, adding that the NetR9 was designed to provide the user with maximum features and functionality from a single receiver.


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Low-Frequency Vibrations

April 1, 2010

Detection with High-Rate Data and Filtering
Multipath makes it difficult to detect very low-frequency structural vibrations, ranging from 0.05 to 1 Hz, important in characterizing dynamic loads and determining safe structural lifetimes. The authors have developed a phase-residual method for use with very high-frequency data to distinguish receiver noise, multipath, and the periodic displacements that are most structurally significant. The methodology can apply to bridges, tall buildings, and towers.


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On the Edge: Lost Graves, Trail of Tears

March 27, 2010

During the winter of 1838–39, the great Native American Cherokee Nation trekked across southern Illinois, in a forced removal by the U.S. government from their ancestral homeland in Tennessee. Harried, unequipped, and unsupported by their captors, thousands died on the Trail of Tears. Burial records were not kept, and burial locations remain lost to this day. Local history suggests that some Illinois settlers allowed the Cherokee to bury their dead on small plots of land adjacent to their own family cemeteries. One such plot, the Campground Presbyterian Church cemetery near Anna, Illinois, may contain unmarked Cherokee graves.


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