New GPS time…lots of questions
OK…lots of questions but here it goes….I’m about to buy a new GPS unit to add to our Leica GS15. Got a quote on a new GS15 for around $16k for the unit, Glonass, and the license to work with my Carlson collectors. We love our old GS15…its a serious workhorse and gets great results under/near canopy and in tough spots. We have a tendency to use it in hard spots and the terrain in my area of NY can be rough with poor views.
I’m also looking at the Carlson BRx6 since we have moved away from Leica to Carlson in all other equipment besides GPS right now. How do the two units stack up against each other especially in rough places? I know the GS15 has more channels but how does this affect performance?
Then comes the question of software. We don’t currently do a lot of multi-unit adjusted GPS work and mostly rely on processing each position individually and holding it as site control. We process the static data from our GS15/CS20 in Infinity (which works but we dislike) to get our GPS control for total station work. We process our total station work in SurvNET. This works for what we are doing now but that is changing, I also want to speed the field collection up with two units. I understand that you can adjust GPS data in SurvNET and Star*NET once you have the processed baselines. I can get and export the baseline data from Infinity as XML (I think). How would I process the baseline data from the BRx6 or SurvCE? Is the price of extra software going to make it cheaper/easier to just get another GS15 and continue processing the baselines in Infinity for export? Is there a software package that can process baseline data from any GPS hardware?
And before anyone pipes in about getting a Javad, we’re not really interested. There is little support in my region for them and two other surveyors whom I have a lot of respect for have recommended against them due to software related issues (why we are moving away Leica in the first place).
Thanks!
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