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Faced with a huge site development project and a very tight window of completion, David Brady, Jr. opted for adding larger iron to maximize productivity in the earthwork portion of the job. Brady knew, however, that a larger machine is only as good as the GNSS-based machine control solution that drives it. So when he learned that the new Cat D6N dozer he was taking delivery of could be equipped wi…
Alaska's largest city is currently witnessing a case of new technology clearing the way for …new technology. At Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (TSAIA), Quality Asphalt Paving (QAP, a subsidiary of the Colaska Group), recently performed a major overhaul of the primary north/south runway to accommodate today’s bigger, heavier cargo aircraft. To help make that happen, the Anchorage-based…
When Hillsboro, North Carolina-based Thalle Construction Company decided to incorporate asset tracking into its operation, it did so on a massive $26 million earthen dam construction project. Called the New Ragged Mountain Dam, and located just west of Charlottesville, Virginia, the new dam will replace a pair of existing structures and provide additional water capacity for the area, according to…
With a landscape like Norway’s, a neighbouring village can be near and far at the same time. Roads can bring people closer together. The new Nordøyvegen, or North Island Road, will connect 5 islands to the mainland. It will bring the approximately 10,000 inhabitants in the municipalities of Haram and Sandøy closer together. n the autumn of 2018, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration appointed…
A Successful RTK UAV Mapping Project with DJI Phantom 4 RTK and SinoGNSS T300 Plus. A rural residential area covering 250000m2 needs to be measured and mapped to obtain a high-accurate map. Featuring large area, time pressured and inadequate staffing, an excellent solution combining of Phantom 4 RTK as rover and T300 Plus GNSS receiver as base is proposed with no image control points, short-time f…
