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Government Report Values GULFNet CORS at over $12 Million Yearly
GULFNet CORS have been valued at over 12 Million dollars a year according to a new government report released June 15th, 2009. The report titled "Socio-Economic Benefits Study: Scoping the Value of CORS and GRAV-D" was prepared for the National Geodetic Survey by Irving Leveson. It shows billions in estimated benefits from NOAA Positioning Products and Services:
• National Spatial Reference System (NSRS): $2.4 billion per year
• CORS: $758 million per year. (GULFNet has 21 of the 1324 National CORS) 
• GRAV-D (Once completed): $4.8 billion over 15 years, including $2.2 billion in avoidance costs from improved floodplain management.

Download the entire report!
 
Benefits of Using GULFNet

Real-Time Network & Infrastructure

Imagine a time where you could produce survey-quality 3-D positions in real-time without the infrastructure costs, technical headaches and management responsibility associated with a network that could make all this possible... With the LSU C4G GULFNet Real-Time Network (RTN), that time is now! The cutting edge technology utilized by the GULFNet RTN has the potential to benefit every surveyor, GIS provider, contractor and other precision minded GPS user within the state of Louisiana.

Data collector and cell phone
Cable-free opperation
Check out these C4G GULFNet breakthroughs:

Operational 24 hours each day, seven days a week.
LSU C4G Geodetic Consortium Members simply dial into the system to generate precise positions quickly and reliably. Gone are the days of researching data records and monuments in order to accomplish static or RTK-GPS surveys.
Members just login and go to work!

100% Cable-free operation possible!

Utilizing Bluetooth® wireless communication between the receiver and controller creates absolutely cable-free rover operation! External radios, cables and extra tripods are not needed. Set-up and operation are incredibly simple.

Eliminates the requirement to own and operate a base station receiver.
The whole network is now your base.
If a base unit is already available to the user, it may be possible to convert it to a rover receiver, which could double the amount of data collected each day. The risk of theft and labor costs associated with the operation of the reference base station is eliminated.

Clear communications via a cell phone.
Eliminate radio headaches! Clear communications between the network and rovers via cell phone modems eliminates problems associated with radio broadcast.

Control Point RTK
Control Point RTK

Totally Eliminate problems due to error in the reported position of monuments.
With GULFNet, all surveys can be on the same coordinate system, horizontally and vertically. Refer to our section on data reliability.

Increase GPS field production.
As a Consortium Member of GULFNet, RTN RTK users should expect at least one survey party hour, per day savings when compared to traditional RTK methods. Those who have not used real-time network RTK before should be amazed with this system.
Our Members just login and go to work!

Production increases of 50%+ possible!
Dramatic efficiency improvements when compared to total station surveys. The GULFNet RTN eliminates the need to establish supplemental traverses for construction staking and topographic surveys.
Our Members just login and go to work!

 
GULFNet GPS Real-Time Network

GULFNet

LSU Center for GeoInformatics invites you to join the GULFNet Geodetic Consortium! GULFNet is a network of Continually Operating GPS Reference Stations (CORS) that delivers Real Time Network error corrections for GPS data providing the next step of sophistication serving the aims of research in surveying, geology, subsidence, hurricane safety engineering and much more. GULFNet provides real-time data for use by surveyors, construction crews, precision farming and others with appropriate equipment to further enable uniform ties to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in Louisiana. 

LSU GULFNet Real-Time Network (RTN) presently consists of over fifty CORS distributed throughout the state that allow
GULFNet Geodetic Consortium members to login and start working anywhere in the state of Louisiana. GULFNet Geodetic Consortium members also have access to 1 second RINEX data from any or the CORS in the network and the ability to create Virtual Reference Stations anywhere in the state and generate RINEX files on the fly for these locations. GULFNet is currently building the infrastructure to support the GLONASS satellite system.

 

Follow the "Read More" link below so YOU TOO can join

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Our Precarious Position
The Spring 2009 issue of LSU RESEARCH spotlights the GULFNet Real-time Network and how Jason Kennedy, a professional land surveyor for local engineering firm T. Baker Smith uses GULFNet to get elevation data in a way that saves time and money for the firm and their customers which includs the State of Louisiana. Click here for a PDF of the entire article.
 
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Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Telephone: 225-578-4578
Fax: 225-578-4502
E-mail: comments@c4g.lsu.edu
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