High precision global positioning system for mining applications
- Trimble Navigation, Ltd., Elgin, IL (United States)
The author discusses today`s satellite technology that has lead to the development of a system that will increase safety and production in surface mining. The Department of Defense is maintaining a satellite system made up of 24 NavStar satellites that allow the use of their frequencies to position equipment anywhere on Earth. The previous satellite system was called the Transit system or Sat-Nav. It consisted of low-orbit satellites (not many up there) that ground-based receivers needed three days of logged data to process sub-meter accuracy positions. With the NavStar network of satellites, centimeter accuracy can be achieved within just a few minutes. Changes to the way one used to survey in the mining industry are being replaced with the Global Positioning System. It has proven to be a system that is more accurate and after the typical learning curve that is required by any new system, will lead to higher productivity; hence, financial rewards are in the immediate future.
- OSTI ID:
- 549060
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9609232-; TRN: 97:005296-0004
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 104. annual meeting of the Illinois Mining Institute, Collinsville, IL (United States), 26-27 Sep 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the Illinois Mining Institute; Damberger, H.H.; Godwin, P. [eds.]; PB: 277 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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