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[SatNews] Accuracy correction to aid farmers…

Trimble has introduced its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) compatible correction service. The Trimble® CenterPoint™ RTX™ correction service can offer 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy and will be available initially through Trimble’s Agriculture Division. CenterPoint RTX is a GPS and GLONASS enabled correction service that covers approximately a 1.8 billion acre swath of central North America, extending from Canada into northern Mexico.

The CenterPoint RTX correction service can deliver a fully-converged position in less than one minute at startup within the five central U.S. “corn belt” states from Nebraska to Illinois, so farmers can begin work immediately. For the area outside of the five U.S. states, the CenterPoint RTX correction service provides the same 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy, but farmers will experience additional convergence time to reach full accuracy. By using Trimble’s FastRestart technology, this convergence time can be reduced and full accuracy can be achieved in less than 3 minutes.

Trimble continues to expand its accuracy correction options for agriculture applications. The CenterPoint RTX service provides a new satellite-delivered high-accuracy correction option for growers located throughout a central swath of North America. CenterPoint RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) reference stations and cellular-delivered CenterPoint VRS (formerly VRS Now™ Ag) services continue to provide high-accuracy correction options for farming operations not only throughout North America, but for locations around the world. Additional sub-decimeter and sub-meter accuracy corrections options are available globally from Trimble through the recently acquired OmniSTAR(TM) GNSS signal corrections business. For more information, visit: www.trimble.com/agcorrectionservices. The corrections are satellite-delivered directly to the GNSS receiver, so there are no additional hardware costs such as radios, antennas or cellular data plans. The CenterPoint RTX service is compatible with both the Trimble CFX-7502™ and FmX® displays. The service is expected to be available by the end of July.