Locata has partnered with the University of NSW’s School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, NSW Land and Property Information Division, Sydney Ports Corporation and Roads and Maritime Services to test the potential for Locata’s technology to provide high-accuracy positioning to NSW government agencies, such as police and emergency services, in Sydney’s CBD where “urban canyon” effects and multi-path mitigates RTK-GPS.

Phase One of the trial was conducted in September and October. Signal quality and basic positioning tests were conducted in Sydney’s Farm Cove. A team from UNSW and Locata is currently processing the data recorded on Sydney Harbour and comparing the results with data recorded by CORSNet GPS and an Applanix POS MV inertial navigation system.  The Royal Australian Navy’s School of Hydrography and the Australian Hydrographic Office were observers at the main positioning trial in October.

A report will be delivered to the NSW state government in  early 2013.  In the meantime, NSW’s Chief Surveyor, Paul Harcombe, presented a paper (see Downloads below) on the results of the Phase One trials at the Spatial@Gov Conference held in Canberra on 20-22 November, 2012.

Videos of four key presentations made at the 2012 Spatial@Gov Conference (including the video of Paul Harcombe’s presentation) can be found here…

NSW Land & Property Information Division’s web page on Locata Sydney Satellites Project can be found here…