The value of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) to American society and surveyors of has rarely been more significant than now in the effort to thwart the corporate greed of LightSquared as it seeks FCC blessing to construct a lucrative communication network that jeopardizes the valuable GPS system.<\/p>\n
Read this article and be ready to e-mail the FCC<\/a>, write your representative<\/a> and senators<\/a>. If you are a surveyor, mapper, cartographer or interested one, learn about and join one of the ACSM<\/a> member organizations like National Society of Professional Surveyors<\/a> (NSPS) today. Help save the GPS!<\/p>\n Eric Gakstatte wrote a great article for GPS World<\/em><\/a> on May 17, 2011 titled “LightSquared: It’s Worse the You Think” that is worth your attention. (Read his article here.<\/a>) He fears surveyors and others may be getting tired of hearing about LightSquared but should be alarmed. Why? The GPS receivers that would likely be affected the most aren\u2019t military, automobile, aviation, mobile phones, etc. The GPS receivers that would be affected the most are the high-precision GPS receivers!<\/p>\n This means surveying, engineering, construction, bridge\/dam\/structure\/seismic monitoring, GIS, precision agriculture, mining, utilities\/telecom, transportation, environmental, disaster management, and all sorts of machine control across a vast number of industries. With 40,000 transmitters across the U.S. targeted at metropolitan areas with high-density population.OPUS, CORS RTK networks, WAAS, OmniSTAR, StarFire, individual high-precision base stations are, all of them, in jeopardy.<\/p>\n The high-precision GPS user will just be collateral damage.<\/span><\/strong> The military has national security. The aviation has safety-of-life. The auto navigation is high-profile. The high-precision user is the most technically difficult seems insignificant. In other words, the high-precision user will simply be told to \u201cdeal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The value of the ACSM to American society and surveyors of has rarely been more significant than now in the effort to thwart the corporate greed of LightSquared as it seeks FCC blessing to jeopardize the valuable GPS system. Join ACSm in its efforts. Precison use is ignored because of its minority standing compared to the military and automobile and air navigation.<\/p>\n Eric Gakstatte wrote a great article for GPS World on May 17, 2011 titled “LightSquared: It’s Worse the You Think” that is worth your attention. The high-precision GPS user will just be collateral damage. This means surveying, engineering, construction, bridge\/dam\/structure\/seismic monitoring, GIS, precision agriculture, mining, utilities\/telecom, transportation, environmental, disaster management, and all sorts of machine control across a vast number of industries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-technology","category-surveying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-6N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":421,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? 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