SRCW Articles and Resource Archive

RTN-101: ON-GRID An Initiative in Support of RTN Development (Part 4)

Gavin Schrock, LS, Surveyor and Administrator of the Puget Reference Station Network
The American Surveyor, December 2006
For the past two years, a grassroots effort has been under way to garner support for folks seeking to develop RTN in their local regions. An RTN covers not only as wide a geographic area, but may also encompass many stakeholders, communications systems, bureaucratic tangles and varying depths of understanding of the subject; all can be hurdles and challenges. http://www.theamericansurveyor.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Schrock-RTN101Part4_December2006.pdf
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RTN-101: Communications - Making that First Rover Connection (Part 3)
Gavin Schrock, LS, Surveyor and Administrator of the Puget Reference Station Network
The American Surveyor, November 2006
The many interlocking parts of an RTN (reference stations, rovers, central processing center), to truly work together in real-time; require consistent and reliable communications in ...well...real-time.... http://www.theamericansurveyor.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Schrock-RTN101Part3_November2006.pdf
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RTN101: An Introduction to Network Corrected Real-Time GPS/GNSS (Part 2)
Gavin Schrock, LS, Surveyor and Administrator of the Puget Reference Station Network
The American Surveyor, October 2006
The ionosphere is not some layer of upper atmosphere made up by environmentalists (or GPS sales folks). It is a big thick belt of charged particles swirling and undulating far above our planet. More than any other factor, the big "I" stands in the way of perfect satellite-based positioning. http://www.theamericansurveyor.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Schrock-RTN101Part2_October2006.pdf
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RTN 101: Network Corrected Real-Time GPS/GNSS (Part 1)
Gavin Schrock, LS, Surveyor and Administrator of the Puget Reference Station Network
The American Surveyor, September 2006
What is RTN? Real-Time Networks, Network Corrected Real-Time, Network RTK, take your pick. Satellite-based positioning, using ground sensors (a.k.a. base stations, reference stations, CORS) to improve the precision of said positioning, real-time corrections, even network corrected real-time (especially overseas and in a growing number of U.S. regions) are nothing new. http://www.theamericansurveyor.com/PDF/TheAmericanSurveyor_Schrock-RTN101Part1_September2006.pdf
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