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Happy GIS Day

Happy GIS Day

The staff here at Frontier Precision would like to wish you a Happy GIS Day! Please visit www.gisday.com for more details. "GIS Day provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems (GIS) technology to demonstrate real-world applications that...

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Enabling the Trimble Positions Desktop Add-In

Enabling the Trimble Positions Desktop Add-In

Occasionally, users are encountering difficulties enabling the Trimble Positions Desktop Add-in. The issue arises when the user tries to enable the extension after a successful install of the add-in. Please check out this short video for more information:

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Geo7x Now Supports Trimble's RTX Correction Services

Geo7x Now Supports Trimble's RTX Correction Services

               A range of Trimble® RTX™ correction services can now be used with Trimble Geo 7 series handhelds with cellular connection, providing mapping professionals more ways to achieve improved accuracy in real time. Trimble RTX over cellular connection works...

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Geo7x Now Supports Trimble’s RTX Correction Services

               A range of Trimble® RTX™ correction services can now be used with Trimble Geo 7 series handhelds with cellular connection, providing mapping professionals more ways to achieve improved accuracy in real time. Trimble RTX over cellular connection works...

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Increase Data Collection Productivity – Allegro 2

Increase Data Collection Productivity – Allegro 2

For Decades the Juniper Systems Allegro field computer has set the standard for ruggedness and performance for high-production data collection in natural resources. A full alpha and large numeric keyboard combined with a touch-screen display allows rapid, accurate...

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Traveling Through Time, Back to the Basics of GPS

Traveling Through Time, Back to the Basics of GPS

From our daily lives, to determining the most accurate position using GPS, timing is a critical component of our modern lives. Advancements in clocks and their accuracy has driven many innovations, including the ability to use GPS to precisely locate ourselves on the...

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What’s New in RTK?

What’s New in RTK?

So, you have driven out to a remote location to locate or update GPS features, only to find that the cell coverage is sketchy.  Enter, the NEW Intuicom RTK Bridge X. This device is a great tool to always have with you to get you through your GPS collection day. This...

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Should I Post Process My GPS Field Data?

Should I Post Process My GPS Field Data?

The answer to this question may seem obvious. We all want to get the best data possible when using a GPS or GNSS receiver, right? So how can we accomplish that? Many of us are happy with real time corrections. But, what if real time corrections are not available? In...

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New Enhancements to Trimble TerraFlex Software

New Enhancements to Trimble TerraFlex Software

Did you know that Trimble has released new Import/Export functionality for TerraFlex? TerraFlex also supports ESRI Basemaps now and will run on Windows 7 & 8 desktop/laptop operating systems! Trimble Positions August 2014 Blog Post on New TerraFlex Desktop Add-In...

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The Secret to Calculating Stockpile Volume

The Secret to Calculating Stockpile Volume

It is amazing how fast certain people can estimate the volume of a stockpile.  We aren’t talking about armchair quarterbacks here.  These are folks who wear the sole off a nice pair of leather work boots in a single year.  They can glance at a pile between sips of hot...

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Do you use Esri Maps for Office yet?

Do you use Esri Maps for Office yet?

A couple of years ago, Esri introduced the Esri Maps for Office plug-in for Microsoft Office.  This plug-in adds exceptional, and easy to use, GIS mapping functionality to traditional Microsoft Office applications like Excel and PowerPoint.  These tools allow...

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Elevation Matters: High-accuracy GNSS for Dam Inspections

Elevation Matters: High-accuracy GNSS for Dam Inspections

When an application for GNSS requires highly accurate relative elevation readings for a set of features, we often think of fairly traditional surveying techniques and equipment like survey-grade GNSS systems, total stations, or even the old hand level with a stadia...

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A Few Things to Consider When Purchasing Your Next ADCP

A Few Things to Consider When Purchasing Your Next ADCP

As portable acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) technology becomes the standard for stream and river flow measurement there is a wider selection of ADCP’s from which to choose. How do you know which ADCP best fits your measurement needs? Ask yourself these...

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Have A Drink On Me…Or Not

Have A Drink On Me…Or Not

The State of California Struggles With A Historical Water Shortage Dry lake beds, brown lawns and thousands of acres of barren farm land, just some of the physical evidence of one of the worst droughts in California history. According to Chris Bonds with the...

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