- Farmers employ satellite, computer technology
Eastern Washington farmers are adding satellite technology, handheld computers, and forecasting software to their list of indispensable tools. Although not all growers can afford machinery already equipped with such technology, many use handheld units that utilize the Global Positioning System (GPS) and special computer software to help them target specific ......
- Car 54, where are you?
Navigating by points of reference in the sky is an arcane science. Modern orientation techniques involving celestial position are based on satellites that emit radio waves. This is the logic behind the Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of 24 satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the earth. They were launched ......
- Leica Geosystems.
The GS20 Professional Data Mapper (PDM), combines the accuracy of a submeter GIS mapping system, the ease of a handheld GPS receiver and the convenience of wireless connectivity. The GS20 is a GPS receiver, antenna and data collector, all in an ergonomic handheld package. The high-resolution, high-contrast screen is easily ......
- Misconceptions Regarding IT in the Engineering Industry
Over the past 20 years, technology has advanced at a remarkable rate. And the engineering community has already begun to embrace some mind-boggling technologies such as satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) units, mobile computers, 3-D digital graphics and the Internet. But when it comes to understanding and implementing these resources, ......
- What you need to know about... GPS technology
Applications for you GPS (Global Positioning System) is commonly used by pilots, mariners and surveyors. Increasingly, commercial GPS technology has been adapted to large scale farming, engineering and construction particularly in pipeline and cable deployment, oil-rig positioning, mapping earthquake damage, surveying toxic waste sites, vehicle dispatch and fleet management and ......
- Cellular fleet tool.
CELLULAR FLEET TOOL...Spectrum Information Technologies and Trimble Navigation Inc. have signed a licensing agreement which lets Trimble use Spectrum's technology in conjunction with its Global Positioning System (GPS) hardware and software. Trimble plans to use the technology to provide fleet management services by transmitting GPS data over a cellular network ......
- Tech to the rescue: the ready-mix industry is
unleashing the power of information to reduce
rollovers.
The rewards of managing a growing business are obvious. For concrete producers, two areas where management challenges arise with growth are efficiency and safety. Perhaps nowhere is the challenge of achieving the optimal balance between these two ideals more obvious than in preventing mixer truck rollovers. Every ready-mix producer has ......