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MINI-MACtm—A new generation dual—Band surveyor

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Litton Divisions presently produce both high accuracy GPS surveyors and low—cost GPS navigation sets. Aero Service'sMACROMETER R Interferometric Surveyors, have become the standard against which GPS surveying equipment is measured. Litton Aero Products has developed a highly digitized, low costL 1,C/A code GPS card set. The integration of these technologies had led to the development of a low-cost, high-precision, GPS survey system which can be configured with or without a codelessL 2 capability.

TheMINI-MAC surveying system is the first member of the new generation of GPS survey systems resulting from this joint development. The system design is described in this paper, and initial survey test results using a prototypeMINI-MAC surveying system are presented.

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  1. Aero Service Division, Western Geophysical Company of America, 8100 Westpark Drive, 77063-6378, Houston, Texas

    Jonathan W. Ladd & Robert G. Welshe

  2. Litton Aero Products, 6100 Condor Drive, 93921, Moorpark, California

    Alison Brown & Mark Sturza

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Ladd, J.W., Welshe, R.G., Brown, A. et al. MINI-MACtm—A new generation dual—Band surveyor. Bull. Geodesique 60, 221–228 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02521053

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