• Review Basics of GPS and how it works
• GPS Applications, Who is using them??
• GPS and Auto-Steer
• Questions

• 24+ Satellites
• 6 circular orbital planes at 20,000 Km
• 12 hour revolution
• 4 to 10 Satellites visible at a time
• All weather world wide coverage

• selective availability turned Off,

• Local Base station
• Coast Guard Beacon System
• Wide Area Satellite ( Omnistar , WAAS )

• Combined strengths of two industry leaders
• Trimble is the world leader in agricultural GPS & Autopilot technology
• Spraying Systems is the world leader in advanced product control and field management capabilities
• Integrated rate control and Auto-steer
• Upgradeability for rate control and guidance
• The ONLY truly integrated system

• Trimble is the world leader in autosteer and machine control technology
• Building and designing from the ground up for rugged agricultural environments
• Trimble R&D budget $60M budget annually
• Strongly leveraged into agriculture
• AgGPS Autopilot system renowned for:
• Accuracy & Repeatability
• Safety & Reliability

• Privately owned corporation established in 1937
• Production facilities in US (3), Germany (2), Korea, China, Brazil, Japan, Denmark, Belgium
• Invest for the long term

• World leaders in application technology
• Sell to traditional agricultural field
  sprayer markets, plus . . .
• Green industry
• Right of way industry
• Greenhouse industry

• Leveraging the best from 2 world-leading providers of
• Integrated "Cab-to-Tip" application solutions
• GPS and Autosteer solutions
• "Plug and Play" - seamless product integration
• Most extensive range of flexible & modular displays, software features and price points
• Trimble and Spraying Systems meet the challenge of consolidation in the cab

• Platform Development
• Software Integration
• Training and Market Development

• Precision of Solution, ……. Accuracy!!
• Number of receivers required
• DGPS: Rover only, equipped with beacon or satellite correction service
• RTK: At least two receivers required:
• Base (Reference) Station (at fixed site)
• Rover receiver (on machine)
• One base supports unlimited rovers
• Radios -- RTK requires radio link between reference and rover

FieldPilot/Auto-steer System

• RTK enables inch-level accuracy
• Autopilot allows you to apply or plant in reduced visibility conditions: dust, night etc
• Ensures perfect performance with any operator
• Eliminate guess rows
• Centimeter-level vertical data collection for topographic mapping
• Map field attributes: vehicle paths, A-B lines, transfers to other Auto-steer vehicles

• Corrections can be used up to a radius of 10miles
• Start up with 5 Sats operate with a minimum of 4 satellites.
• Turn on and go in less than 2 minutes.
• Survey grade positioning allows changing from one base station to another in the middle of a job

• Input Power Conditioning
• Industrial Rating
• Temperature
• Vibration
• Shock
• Rugged packaging for vehicle mounting
• Shock mounted boards

• There are no moving parts,
• It zeros itself 50 times a second,
• It is the combined technology of the inertial gyro and survey grade GPS that makes true repeatability possible.
• All this adds up to absolute accuracy

• Case SPX4260 released as first high-speed self-propelled platform MAX SPEED 24 mph

• The benefits of integrated systems:
• Single user-interface – operator learns to run a single device
• Fewer boxes in cab improves visibility and cab organization
• No requirement to get multiple consoles to "talk" to each other
• Fewer consoles mean lower costs
• Less time managing consoles means more time working -improved productivity

• Legacy 6000 Autopilot display
• A Daylight Readable color display
• A platform which customers can upgrade to enable variable rate control and as-applied logging
• Field management capabilities
• Fieldware office software for handling data & creating job reports

• Highway Equipment Co.
• New Leader Mark III, IV
•  Midwest Technologies
• Legacy 2000
• Mid-Tech TASC (6000, 6300, 6600)
• Mid-Tech TASC (6200, 6500)
• Mid-Tech TASC 6100
• Mid-Tech 98 protocol
• TeeJet 854
• Case (Flexi Coil)
• Case DC/FlexHead
• DICKEY-john
• DICKEY-john LandManager I, II
• Rawson Control Systems
• ACCU-PLANT
• ACCU-RATE
• Raven Industries
• Raven SCS440, 450, 460, 550, 660 LIQUID
• Raven SCS660 GRANULAR
• Raven SCS750 Raven SCS760
• Raven SCS700, 710

• Use WAAS, Beacon, L-band corrections anytime, anywhere
• DGPS Autopilot 4-12" (10-30cm)
  pass-to-pass
• RTK Autopilot 1" (2.5cm) pass-to-pass
• Unparalleled handling of all terrain
• Inertial management unit updates
  50 times per second
• Solid-state gyros (no moving parts) for roll correction
• Modular design - add-on functionality when customer is ready
• Instant-ON starts right away. No waiting
• Patented safety systems
• Many thousands of hours of trouble-free operation

• Trimble GPS used in FieldPilot systems
• DGPS = AgGPS 110, AgGPS 114, AgGPS 124, AgGPS 132

• RTK = Rugged AgGPS 214 plus radios and base

• Fieldware Map Manager
• Familiar Windows Explorer
  style appearance
• Store, view and manage
  map and data files
• Export to shape files
• Import shape files
• Create job reports with
  application data and maps