August 2023 Newsletter: City of Saline Totally Transforms Municipal Maps

Feature Story

/// A Forward-Thinking Michigan Municipality Implements High-Accuracy Maps for Program Management

City of Saline, Michigan, Arrow Gold GNSS receiver, field data collection, ArcGIS

The City of Saline, Michigan, recently set out on a journey to totally transform how its Department of Public Works (DPW) takes advantage of maps. Leaving behind a previous world in which the DPW could not rely on an externally managed GIS, the city used a combination of Arrow GNSS hardware and ArcGIS software applications not only to bring their GIS in house, but also to maximize value from their investment. Learn how Saline staff created benefits including reduced third-party costs, more accurate proposal bits, and even longer-term gains such as a path forward toward building a more data-driven program management strategy.

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Industry News

What Creates GNSS Positioning Error? (Part 2)

In part one of our new educational article series, you learned that all GNSS positioning is based on the time of satellite signals’ arrival. So if all positioning shares the same basic math, why are some positions more accurate than others? In part two, you’ll uncover the sources of GNSS positioning error, including such culprits as multipath, dilution of precision, and the pervasive ionosphere. Let’s dive in! …

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