Additionally, with SafeRTK®, the Arrow Gold® can continue to maintain a great accuracy for 20 minutes, even when RTK correction is lost.
Additionally, with SafeRTK®, the Arrow Gold® can continue to maintain a great accuracy for 20 minutes, even when RTK correction is lost.
By switching to Arrow GNSS receivers with the iPad®s and ArcGIS Collector, we are able to eliminate the need for survey staff to be on site for some of these projects where the survey grade accuracy may not be necessary. So that removed a person from all of those activities, which reduces our cost significantly.
I think the reasons why the Arrow GNSS receivers were preferred by our inspectors over other hardware solutions were that the Arrow receivers were easy to configure, simple to deploy, lightweight, rugged and above all else, accurate.
Having a GPS vendor that also clearly understood the Esri GIS ecosystem and could assist with the workflows was really beneficial and saved us a lot of hassle.
Because the cost and effort involved was fairly minimal, it just made a lot more sense to go ahead and set up our own base station. We also thought there could be other groups in the city that would use this system.
For us, being a remote northern community where GPS satellites are a bit less visible, the fact that the Arrow 100® supports a constellation like GLONASS was a huge improvement.
The Arrow 100® gains access to far more satellites by supporting all four constellations, which means higher accuracy and reduced downtime.