The overall performance of a satellite-based positioning system is affected by the number of satellites the receiver "sees" and by the angles (geometry) between the satellites and receiver. Poor ...

The GPS equipment has reduced the amount of staking required. “If we didn’t have this GPS equipment, I would probably need three or four more crews to keep up.” The dozer operator knows ...

Neri Contractors and Excavators, based in Lake in the Woods, IL, is a 29-year-old earthmoving business that runs 156 pieces of heavy equipment, including 50 scrapers, 35 dozers and 11 backhoes ...

The SOC of US Space Force (USSF) has taken delivery of an updated operating system for the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Tiger Contracting is using GPS technology on a new motor grader and a new dozer to complete site work on a 178,000-square-foot Lowes Home Improvement Center project in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. The ...

Shantui has used the BICES exhibition in Beijing, China to unveil its first ever GPS machine controlled dozer, the DH17R. The 19.3 tonne, 127 kW machine was demonstrated using a Leica iCON GPS 60 ...

The system expands the Topcon dozer indicate product line by offering a single-GNSS-plus-slope sensor designed for complete control of elevation and slope. “The i-53 features the Topcon GX-55 control ...

Mastless machine control has been a technology on the come, with notable systems from OEMs, including John Deere (on dozers and graders), and traditional machine-control tech providers like Topcon.