PointMan and Trimble Catalyst

By: Peter Srajer, CLS, P. Eng. and Benjamin Skogen, CPM Summary Trimble Catalyst is a software based GNSS receiver as opposed to the use of the dedicated processors and firmware programming that is on board a conventional hardware receiver. The Trimble Catalyst uses the DA1 antenna and processing power of a compatible mobile device to […]

PointMan Now Supports Geoidal Models

By: Peter Srajer, CLS, P. Eng. and Benjamin Skogen, CPM Synopsis of Issue The survey and engineering worlds have various methods of determining the height of a point on the ground surface. In the same manner as horizontal coordinates having different datums, so do vertical coordinates. There are three surfaces we are concerned with in […]