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Eos Customer Stories: Your Success Is Ours

Eos Positioning Systems®, Inc. (Eos) values the work happening all around the world with high-accuracy GNSS location. Eos customer stories highlight some of hour favorite stories. Arrow Series™ users around the world are reshaping how they collect, manage, and make decisions based off high-accuracy location data. Browse stories from utility, environmental, forestry, marine, government, agricultural, and other organizations that are transforming their location data into a powerful, decision-making tool.

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Arrow 100 for Archeology: Radiographers Locate Ancient Swedish Monasteries with Modern GNSS Receivers and Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR)

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How do you use the Arrow 100 for Archeology? Swedish monasteries represent an important part of the country's history and culture. Yet in Sweden, many of the old monasteries from hundreds of years ago have been lost. Swedish historians at Åsklosterprojektet used the Eos Arrow 100 GNSS receiver and ground-penetrating radar to uncover nearly a dozen buried structures.
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Halifax Students Use Arrow 100 for Urban Forestry Project: Determining the Health of 2,000 Street Trees

Halifax Students Use Arrow 100 for Urban Forestry Project: Uncovering Health & Risks of One Town’s Trees
Students from Dalhousie University used the Arrow 100 for urban forestry. In just one weekend, students mapped over 2,000 trees on personal mobile devices. Using iOS and Android phones and tablets, with Esri's Collector for ArcGIS and Arrow 100 GNSS receivers, the students were able to create a high-accuracy tree inventory and, afterwards, help the Town of Bridgewater assess tree health for sustainable planning.
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Into the Woods: Swedish Boundary Hunters Use the Arrow 100 for Forestry Under Dense Canopy

Forestry is a major component of today's Swedish economy. But landowners must often hire private teams to go into the woods to find their boundaries. Learn how one team located boundaries under the dense canopy of Sweden's forests. They used the Arrow 100 for forestry, iCMTGIS PRO & iPads.
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Montreal Preserves its Iconic Landscape by Increasing Pesticide Treatment with Collector and Arrow 100 by 6300% per Year

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The City of Montreal increased its pesticide treatment with Collector and Arrow 100 by more than 6,000 percent — saving its iconic forests from the pernicious emerald ash borer. The city traded inaccurate Garmin GPS legacy units, costly manual workflows, and error-prone printouts for Collector, Eos Arrow, iPads.
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Kentucky Water District Cuts Meter Installation Costs in Half with High-Accuracy, Real-Time Data Collection

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OCWD in Kentucky cut its costs for each meter installation by 50% from about $200 to about $100 by using a centimeter-accuracy, real-time field data collection solution. The utility was able to free office staff for other work and reduce its labor, equipment, and materials costs.
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Reducing As-Builting Time: How One U.S. Water Utility Got Down to 7 Days with Arrow

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Indiana American Water was using a legacy workflow to check in and check out maps to the field spanning 300,000 customers. The workflow took six months at best for as-builting to get updated asset data into the office backend and back out to the field. With Arrow 200, Collector for ArcGIS, and iPad minis, the utility was able to slash as-builting time to just seven days. Asset data in the field is collected to within a centimeter of accuracy — and is reflected instantly to users across the utility via Esri ArcGIS Online.
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Affordable High-Accuracy Receivers Help Ireland Save Europe’s Last Remaining Bogs

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Wetland Surveys Ireland (WSI) uses Arrow 100 GPS / GNSS receivers, Esri Collector for ArcGIS, and iOS devices to influence environmental policy in Ireland. The team at WSI is able to measure and monitor the growth or deterioration of Sphagnum mosses, enabling them to create highly accurate maps of the healthiest or poorest-health boglants — so policymakers can act quickly to save Europe's last remaining boglands.
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U.K. Water Utility Maps 10,000 Miles of Assets with Sub-Meter Accuracy

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Tucked away in rural England, Northumbrian Water was looking for a technology kit that could improve its asset data. The water utility was on a tight budget and had limited staff, who needed an intuitive solution. By deploying the Arrow 100 receiver, Northumbrian Water was able to tap into the European EGNOS SBAS for differential corrections, collect high-accuracy data with Collector for ArcGIS, and increase internal confidence in asset data while keeping costs low.
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