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[sarcasm]I'll be sure to let them know that Kent McMillan said it just looks dumb.[/sarcasm]I guess you finally read the text and came to the conclusi...
Page 2 clearly shows ?(vertical) and ?(horizontal) to be at 95%. This is done throughout the paper.
You seem to be of the mind that anything that disagrees with your sensibilities is idiotic. As I mentioned in the earlier relevant thread to this topi...
or just 95%.
The next release will reportedly figure the relative positional accuracy of two inversed points rather than the relative accuracy of the distance. Hop...
br>It appears that documenting the 95% confidence error estimate with 2? is not always appropriate as the 95% confidence is not always twice the stand...
Rambleon - scalarsI can envision what you are describing and I think I might set up a few test areas at various ranges similar to what you have descri...
> Shawn, I think this thread and topic will be invaluable if you are able to help the Javad software folks implement some of the suggestions Kent h...
Example of Relative Positional Precision - RTK> > What leads you to think there needs to be any scaling of the 95% error ellipse?> > Well,...
Example of Relative Positional Precision - RTK> Yes, this is yet another example that shows how screwed up the relative accuracy figure is. By simp...
If I understand your predicament correctly, it sounds like you weren't getting a good enough cell signal to get corrections from the internet. This wo...
> Sometimes you guys crack me up.....chasing millimeters when you have your top heavy receiver 2 meters up in the air on a prism pole that has a 'k...
Example of Relative Positional Precision - RTKA new example from today. Longer base-rover vector, longer rover to rover inverse. In 2010 we performed ...
Could you elaborate on your position on number 5. Why can we not determine a 2 sigma positional uncertainty from a single rtk position?
That's a very fair question. I can only say that I've tested the distance relative accuracy on a couple of occasions and it seems very much in agreeme...
Generally, who is advocating button pushing in this thread?> Can you refresh my recollection as to even one point upon which I've been wrong, parti...
> The 50 ppm part is computed using the direct horizontal distance between the points being tested. Some folks try to inflate allowable error by co...
Generally, who is advocating button pushing in this thread?Generally, who is advocating button pushing in this thread?Kent shared some concerns regard...
The maximum allowable Relative Positional Precision for an ALTA/ACSM Land Title Survey is 2 cm (0.07 feet) plus 50 parts per million (based on the dir...
> It looks to me as if you want to distract attention from the bizarre misconceptions present in the way that Javad presents their RTK data on the ...