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GPS : January 2000
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Trimble Link
Hydra 3-D
Garmin GPS III
Point releases new GPS products
Survey SelectCAD
Rand McNally to Launch Cordless GPS Receivers
Trimble Link
The strategic alliance of Trimble and Autodesk was aimed at creating integrated software solutions for land development. The first outcome of the alliance is Trimble Link, a plug-in module, which embeds in Autodesk Survey. It is a complementary product to AutoCAD Land Development Desktop software. The module allows the seamless transfer of data from Trimble’s Survey Controller.
Hydra 3-D
Magellan has announced a new GPS-based monitoring system, capable of delivering sub-centimetre motion detection in real time. Hydra 3-D is ideal for monitoring dams, bridges, offshore oil platforms and other large structures as well as slope stability analysis, plate- tectonic studies and other land mass monitoring. The system comprises software and Magellan’s GPS receivers 3D-1 or 3D-2, both designed for continuous operation and low power consumption. The system is able to compute millimetre-level solutions in real time and in 3-D. The Hydra is capable of running at a speed of 20 Hz.
Garmin GPS III
With the Garmin GPS III receiver, you can locate yourself on a map. It can also tell the position, speed, heading and a lot more to the navigator. There is also a trip planner that figures out how long it will take to get from one city to another by road. Exclusively built in for North America but one can enter street-level maps for other places also. As it is not made for India, it only shows the rough location of the navigator on an Indian subcontinent map. For details visit:
www.garmin.com .
Point releases new GPS Products
Point, Inc., has announced the release of four first-generation survey products, which is a newly formed subsidiary joint-venture company of NovAtel Inc. and Sokkia Co. Ltd. All the new products are for developing, building and marketing GPS-enabled systems for surveying, mapping, GIS, construction and machine-control markets. They include the Radian - a comprehensive GPS surveying system; Midas GIS - a new pen-based mapping and GIS field solution; Axis - integrates a GPS/beacon receiver, which uses NovAtel GPS technology, with optional pen-based computer software to accomplish real-time mapping and data collection; and SDR software - a new version of SDR applications software, which offers increased functionality and flexibility to users of Sokkia’s SDR33 electronic field book.
Survey Select CAD
Intergraph Corporation has released
Survey SelectCAD that combines analytical tools and enhanced interactive
graphics to help users to reduce, analyse, manage and visualise their
survey data. The new software provides functionality to integrate
electronic field books (EFBs) and GPS latitude/longitude data into the CAD
environment and produces plot-ready graphics immediately upon reading the
data. On field planimetrics and contours can be displayed and the results
can be verified for accuracy.
Rand McNally to Launch Cordless GPS Receivers
Palm (TM) connected travellers who conduct business or make frequent visits to unfamiliar territories, now have a new tool to help and prevent the stress of getting lost. Rand McNally, the leading global provider of geographic and travel information, has planned the launch of two new products in April 2000
-StreetFinder® GPS for the Palm III (TM) organiser and StreetFinder® GPS for the Palm V (TM) organiser. It is a lightweight, easy-to-use handheld GPS receiver and mapping software package. The Rand McNally receivers are the first cordless GPS units created specifically for Palm (TM) organisers and offer today’s business travellers an integrated, all-in-one mapping and navigation solution that works effectively with their personal digital assistants (PDAs). This new wireless, handheld navigation tool offers Integrated Mapping and Navigation Solutions. Travellers using StreetFinder® GPS for the Palm III or V (TM) device will have the ability not only to download maps, directions, points of interest and business services onto their Palm (TM) organisers, but also to manipulate, search and even customise maps with place markers. StreetFinder® Deluxe 2000 software is designed to run on Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 or higher. Users will need a VGA card and 256-colour monitor, 16 MB RAM, 80486 PC or higher, double-speed CD-ROM drive and 125MB of available hard disk space. For details, visit
www.randmcnally.com .
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