Tasmanian industry to benefit from state-of-the-art GPS network

Tasmanian businesses are now able to access Global Positioning data accurate to within two centimetres, with the launch of OmniSTAR’s state-of-the-art CORS Network set up with the assistance of the Tasmanian Water and Sewerage Corporations (TWSC).

CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Station) Networks provide highly accurate global positioning data which benefits a range of commercial and industrial users. They achieve much greater accuracy than traditional GPS systems by allowing satellite measurements to be referenced in real time against precise information from GPS base-stations.

OmniSTAR’s industry partner Ultimate Positioning has been working to develop the network since July 2011. To deliver the 19 base-station network Ultimate Positioning has worked with Cradle Mountain Water, Ben Lomond Water and Southern Water, which are hosting base-stations at depots around the state.

Ultimate Positioning’s National Survey Manager Paul Standen said the network’s precision was a first for Tasmania.

“The CORS network will be enormously beneficial to users in surveying, mapping, construction, agriculture, mining and engineering around the state,” Mr Standen said.

“The assistance of Cradle Mountain Water and Ben Lomond Water and Southern Water in supplying the power supply and communications infrastructure for the GPS base-stations has enabled the network to be established in a very fast time.”

TWSC Chairman Miles Hampton said the water corporations were delighted to be able to assist Ultimate Positioning to get the network up and running.

“Many industries in Tasmania will benefit from being able to access this CORS Network so when Cradle Mountain Water, Ben Lomond Water and Southern Water were approached by Ultimate Positioning to host the GPS sub-stations we thought it was a great opportunity to assist in bringing the network to fruition,” Mr Hampton said.

“Cradle Mountain Water, Ben Lomond Water and Southern Water are among the many users to benefit from being able to access highly accurate positioning data and the fact that we were also able to help set this network up for the benefit of everyone in the state is a huge positive.”

The network, covering all Tasmania except a part of the South West, is now commercially available for users requiring high-accuracy GPS.

For more information go to www.ultimatepositioning.com

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