Rovers and base stations have been around and used in our industry for a long time. When paired with the GPS Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) operation, it gives you impeccable accuracy down to the centimeter. Choosing the best location for set up on the job site is the most crucial first step towards obtaining the best data possible.

The 90s were a great decade for many reasons including a lot of technological inventions like Adobe Photoshop, Linux, text messages, Nintendo, Google, and more. Among the myriad of discoveries was also the Virtual Reference Station which came to be in 1997. A Virtual Reference Station (VRS) is a technique for network real-time kinematic (RTK) for GPS systems. Before VRS, surveyors used the base station method.

Moving dirt, it's what we do and what we love to do! It is super important to have a firm understanding of how soil shrinks and swells. When soil is moved from one location to another, its volume changes, and this is known as either shrink or swell.

Have you ever stopped and given control points a second thought? Probably not. However, we felt obligated to dedicate a blog to the importance of control points because without them, quite frankly, there would be nothing more to the job site. So, let's dig into the 4 Ws of Control Points and give them the attention they deserve!