PanoTools:
RE: has anyone experience with gps?
Paul D. DeRocco 2005-Sep-19 06:46:06
> From: Carel Struycken
>
> A few weeks ago I saw a field researcher in the forrest with a Trimble
> GPS device. It had a donut sized antenna on a yellow pole sticking out
> of his backpack. He was making notes about specific plants, so the
> device seems to be accurate to within a few inches. Nowadays the various
> city and county surveyors are also outfitted with Trimbles.
No GPS is that accurate unless you integrate over a long period of time,
which is what surveying equipment does. I suspect this researcher just
needed to record what area a particular species was found in, not so close
that someone could go back and find the exact plant.
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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
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