GPS World, September 2016

WATCH MARKET SURVEY 2 Esri and Leica Offer Grants INTERGEO 2016 PREVIEW Companies in this sector exhibiting ALLSAT customized GNSS solutions for precise navigation and surveying Eos Positioning Systems The Arrow series of highaccuracy GNSS receivers for GIS mapping and surveying Geo Gmbh GNSMART for area covering homogeneous absolute GNSS based positioning with centimeter accuracy in real time GENEQ The iSXBLUE II GNSS Bluetooth receiver provides sub meter accuracy with an iPad or iPhone Harris ENVI geospatial software that processes and analyzes imagery and data Hemisphere GNSS GNSS solutions for marine land survey mapping construction and agriculture Navcom Technology Advanced GNSS products for OEMs and system integrators and the StarFire Network SpectraPrecision Surveying Products include GNSS GPS optical total stations datacollection hardware field and office software and a range of construction tools SBG Systems MEMS based inertial motion sensing solutions ranging from miniature to high accuracy for hydrographic and mobile mapping applications Suzhou Foif The RTS010 high precision total station EL03 high precision digital level and GTA1300 gyroscope station will be highlighted Bluetooth Receivers Now Compatible with Collector 104 B luetooth receivers from two companies are compatible wi th Esr i s Col lec tor for ArcGIS 104 for iOS released in July Wi t h t he G ene q a nd E os Positioning Systems receivers users can take advantage of new features of data collection with Collector particularly detailed information about the location and its related accuracy an easy way of setting a minimal accurac y va lue dur ing data collection new correction profile setting to define datum transformations improved notifications for receiver changes or configuration issues Also users can capture GNSS metadata and attach it to features that are collected Geneq With the compatibility high sub metric accuracy is available in real time for field workers and Collector users from Geneqs iSXBlue receivers which use a simple interface for the Bluetooth connection setting Also Geneqs iSXBlue RTN 30 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM SEPTEMBER 2016 software available at the Apple App Store allows users to receive and use RTK corrections via an Internet Protocol connection NTRIP or DIP Eos Positioning Systems The full range of Arrow GNSS receivers from sub meter to decimeter to centimeter RTK accuracy all work flawlessly with Collector for ArcGIS running on all iPhones and iPads running iOS 8 x or later according to Eos Positioning Systems As a companion sof tware to Collector Eos offers an app called Eos Tools Pro that allows the user to connect to an RTK network and to set alarms for estimated accuracy HDOP correction age and others G eographi c inf ormat ion system GIS provider Esri has partnered with Swissbased spatial measurement instrument manufacturer Leica Geosystems to encourage innovation of mobile field data collection in government by offering grants totaling 143250 in goods and services Projects should combine GIS and GPS Known as the Smart Communities Innovation Challenge 10 governments that submit detailed project proposals demonstrating increased efficiencies in collecting data for decision support or improved productivity in delivering governmental services will be selected to receive a grant Project proposals will be accepted from Aug 15 unti l the of f icial submission deadline at 5 p m PDT on Oct 14 2016 Grant recipients will be announced on Oct 31 Esris Collector for ArcGIS is available on iOS Android and Windows 10 platforms Photo Esri