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Archive 2002BEELINE Technologies, NovAtel and OmniSTAR Team Together to Develop Next Wave of Ag Steering Assist Products
The planned products will give farmers the benefits of decimeter level HPDGPS and state-of-the-art dual frequency receivers coupled with inertial navigation and sophisticated guidance software. The result is intended to be an agricultural guidance system that is accurate to the decimeter level without the inconvenience or high costs associated with base stations. Also, OmniSTAR's wide area High Performance service operates twenty-four hours per day, and reduces the problem of insufficient satellites that is occasionally experienced by real-time kinematic users. According to Rob Mailler, Founder, BEELINE Technologies, "This product simplifies machine guidance technology and makes the benefits accessible to operators, freeing them from the tedium of steering the vehicle and allowing them to focus on what they are really trying to achieve in the field. Accurate steering control will decrease overlap errors, therefore increasing productivity and reducing input costs." "The Australian farmers have benefited from the OmniSTAR signal and service quality for a number of years, and we believe these new products will allow us to support these farmers as they become the technological leaders of the agricultural community worldwide. NovAtel is a world-class manufacturer of GPS receivers and they have a state-of- the-art platform to carry our new decimeter service, OmniSTAR HP. BEELINE is unquestionably the worldwide leader in guidance systems. The partnering of these experts will put our customers on the leading edge of technology," said Gavin Abbott, President of OmniSTAR, Pty Ltd. headquartered in Perth, Australia. "Teaming with BEELINE and OmniSTAR, both acknowledged technology leaders, supports NovAtel's commitment to partner with the best in order to provide customers world-wide with the most accurate positioning no matter how challenging the application," said Jon Ladd, President and CEO of NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Canada. With offices in Fresno, California and Brisbane, Australia, BEELINE Technologies is a highly innovative company breaking new ground on the leading edge of the world's most advanced technology in the agricultural steering assist field. For information on BEELINE, visit www.beelinenavigator.com. NovAtel Inc. designs, markets and supports a broad range of products that determine precise geographic locations using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and is the principal supplier of reference receivers to WAAS ground networks around the world. NovAtel's GPS products are used principally for applications in precision markets such as the surveying, geographic information systems, aviation, marine, mining and machine control, agriculture and precise timing markets. For further information please visit the Company's website at www.novatel.com. OmniSTAR is the world's market leader in providing DGPS enhancement data via satellite. With Worldwide coverage, 70 reference stations around the globe, and 3 network control centers, the Company provides highly reliable positioning services. OmniSTAR is owned by Fugro NV, a worldwide services company with over 200 offices in more than 45 countries. Fugro provides surveying, positioning, environmental and geo-technical services both onshore and offshore. For information on OmniSTAR, visit www.omnistar.com.
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