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MSU GPS Lab

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MSU GPS Lab

Montana State University
PO Box 173120
Bozeman, MT 59717-3120

GPS Lab Manager:

Diana Cooksey
Tel: (406) 994-5684
Fax: (406) 994-3933
E-mail: dcooksey@montana.edu
Location: 245 Leon Johnson Hall

MSU Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory

College Office

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.

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, radio antenna, control computer) 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)
  • Differential correction and data processing
  • Cooperative research projects with a GPS component
Cooperative Projects
  • MSU GPS Laboratory facilities and equipment are available for cooperative teaching and research projects as related to land resource inventory and management
  • High-priority projects include natural resource mapping, crop and rangeland pest surveys, GPS / GIS linkage, terrain and landscape modeling, enhanced soil survey, enhanced land resource photogrammetry, and real-time navigation
Funding
  • The MSU GPS Laboratory is a self-supporting program.
  • Charges for use of GPS receivers help to cover equipment maintenance, repair, and replacement, and maintenance of our software and firmware licenses.
  • Charges for personnel services cover wages for GPS mapping project work.

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