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Automatic GNSS signal allocation between remote and base receivers

  • US 8,532,885 B1
  • Filed: 04/04/2012
  • Issued: 09/10/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A guidance system including satellites from a plurality of global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs), a base station receiver and transmitter, and a rover receiver unit, the system further comprising:

  • a vehicle;

    said rover receiver unit being comprised of a GNSS receiver, a clock, a CPU, an orientation device, and a graphical user interface (GUI) and adapted for interface with said vehicle;

    at least one GNSS antenna located on said vehicle and communicatively connected to said rover receiver unit;

    said rover receiver unit adapted for receiving position signal data from said plurality of GNSS satellites;

    said base station receiver adapted for receiving position signal data from said plurality of GNSS satellites;

    said base station transmitter adapted for transmitting raw satellite data signal to said rover receiver unit;

    wherein said CPU determines which satellite signals are being tracked by said base station receiver; and

    said CPU reallocates the GNSS satellite signals being tracked by said GNSS receiver.

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