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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael E Jackson, Christchurch, NZ;
Richard Jackson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
34235706 ; 34235702 ; 34235701 ; 701213 ; 701214 ;
Abstract
Method and apparatus for enhancing the accuracy of the elevation coordinate in a survey that uses GPS survey measurements to determine location coordinates for a plurality of survey locations. An optimal locally-best-fitting plane is combined with a geoid model that represents a local region of the Earth, in order to decrease the inaccuracy associated with an elevation coordinate in the survey to a fraction of a decimeter.