About the GPS Lab
The MSU GPS Laboratory is a self-supporting program in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences which provides services to students, researchers and the local community.
UPDATE: Everything is up and running. Please let us know if you experience any problems. thanks for your patience during the outage! 3/27/2013 4:45 PM
UPDATE: The cables arrived and everything is hooked up - we are currently working on a network issue. Cross your fingers! 3/27/2013 10:30 AM
UPDATE: The NetR9 has been repaired and returned, but we are still waiting for cables from Trimble. Unfortunately they neglected to send the cables with the receiver and the cables which were sent separately are nowhere to be found. Thanks for your patience - we will get the station up and running ASAP. 3/25/2013 1:30 PM
UPDATE: The NetR9 has been sent to Trimble for repair. No loaner is available at this time, so we will have to wait until it comes back. Sorry for the inconvenience. Updates will be posted here as new information becomes available. 2/27/2013 12:30 PM
!Alert! MTSU is currently experiencing problems. We are working on a resolution and will post a notice here as soon as it is up and running again - it will either be up tomorrow morning (if our latest attempt is successful) or we will have to send it in for repair. If so, we will try to get a loaner in place while it is being repaired. Thanks for your patience. 2/26/2013 4:00 PM
!Please note! The MTSU CORS station equipment upgrade was completed Fall of 2012. Please click here for more information.
Purpose
- To provide GPS base station data for determination of accurate location coordinates for field mapping projects
- To provide real-time corrections for survey grade GPS work
- To provide equipment and support for teaching, cooperative research, and service activities involving students
Location
- The MSU GPS base station equipment (receiver, antenna and radio antenna) are installed in various locations across the campus of Montana State University-Bozeman
Services
- GPS base station data recording for differential correction
- Real-time GPS data broadcast for survey grade applications
- GPS education and training
- GPS receiver rental (University research projects or cooperative projects involving students only)
- Differential correction and data processing
- Cooperative research projects with a GPS component
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MSU
- High-priority projects
include natural resource mapping, crop and rangeland pest surveys,
- The MSU
- Charges for use of
- Charges for personnel services cover wages for GPS mapping project work.
Information about the Fall 2012 MTSU CORS Station Upgrade
- 8/29/2012: RTK radio upgrade completed.
- 8/29/2012: Antenna upgrade completed: new antenna is a Trimble Zephyr Geodetic 2.
- 8/31/2012 - 9/7/2012: Receiver upgrade and configuration completed.
- Base files are available via NGS CORS for mapping grade differential correction in Pathfinder Office.
- The base file position is now referenced to NAD83 (2011). You can view the data sheet by going to http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/ and entering mtsu for the site ID, then clicking Coordinates.
- NGS will recalculate our base position (ARP), and if it changes, the base position will be updated.
- Radio is now operating in narrowband (12.5 kHz) and transmitting CMR+ corrections.
- NOTE: PLEASE USE THE NEW RTK CORRECTIONS WITH CAUTION -- there is a shift between the new datum (NAD83 (2011)) and the old one (NAD83 (CORS96)) -- if you are working with data that was collected before the upgrade, you will likely need to do an adjustment.
The Leon Johnson Hall Trimble Community Base Station was replaced in 2007 with a Trimble NetRS GPS CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station). The new equipment supplies much higher accuracy base station files and real-time corrections.
Read more here: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4893
