OmniSTAR®
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OmniSTAR® services provide highly accurate and reliable real-time GNSS positions, helping our partners reduce costs and increase productivity. These services are available wirelessly through satellite signalling and mobile phone technologies. OmniSTAR®’s worldwide capabilities are available around the clock and used across a wide range of industries - from precision agriculture to seismic monitoring, heavy construction to mapping.
Neil Bissoon
Global lead - OmniSTAR®
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Unlike local RTK networks or free to air services, OmniSTAR® provides differential GPS and GNSS services through a worldwide satellite service, making it easily available and very reliable. The use of real-time satellite correction services optimises the capabilities of your GPS or GNSS receiver to ensure reliable, precise and accurate global coverage.
To order or renew OmniSTAR® subscriptions please contact our Customer Care Team.
Global Toll Free: 1-888-OMNISTAR
Local Telephone: 1-713-778-6400
Email: omnistar@fugro.com
How we work with clients
Agriculture
OmniSTAR® delivers highly accurate and reliable positioning services trusted by farmers for over 30 years. Farmers across the globe, using different steering and guidance systems, report that OmniSTAR® services help to minimise input costs and maximise returns. Ideal applications for precision agriculture include:
Planting
Automated Steering
Seeding
Yield Monitoring
Farm Mapping
Soil Sampling
Variable Rate Applications
Spraying
Harvesting
Aerial Applications
Yield Mapping
Mapping & GIS
Companies working in remote locations trust OmniSTAR® to supply reliable GNSS positioning solutions. Our technologies allow for data collection activities to be performed anywhere in the world. The process is simple, with minimal set up and no need for additional base stations or expensive data plans.
OmniSTAR®’s services provide complete confidence that plotted survey data is reliable with high accuracy positioning. OmniSTAR® is compatible with industry recognised GPS and GNSS receivers, available from major equipment manufacturers. Our solution assists GIS companies to successfully undertake a variety of industry related tasks including:
Agriculture & forestry condition surveys
Data acquisition
Cable and pipeline location
Boundary surveys
Emergency management procedures
Irrigation surveys
Landscape surveys
Mapping utilities lines and assets
Resource mapping
Stake out for construction mapping
Utility mapping
Aviation
Nowhere is remote with OmniSTAR®. Our worldwide service means you have instant access to high accuracy corrections wherever your operations take you. The advanced global positioning system improves the quality of results in:
Airborne geophysics
Aerial photogrammetry
Aviation photogrammetry
Defence applications
Avionics testing
Mining
With OmniSTAR®, mining companies can be assured of reliable, precise and accurate coverage. By simplifying operations and maximising control over machines, projects teams are able to meet requirements for all international operations.
OmniSTAR® is extremely useful during the collection of data required for:
Tenement pegging
Preliminary and identification surveys
Soil sampling
Borehole set out, identification and pickup
Geological mapping
Green field surveys
Railways
OmniSTAR® improves railway operations, efficiency and safety. The technology provides the precise point positioning data needed to ensure reliable railway infrastructure monitoring. Railway operators benefit from the enhanced quality of reports generated through automated systems analysis.
Using OmniSTAR® rail maintenance programs makes on-going operations more efficient. You’ll know the exact location of your stock thanks to GNSS satellites signals. This is essential for enhancing safety, modern signalling and increasing network capacity. Furthermore, OmniSTAR® data supports organisations to reduce infrastructure costs.
Products
OmniSTAR® HP
Best for effective broadacre seeding, spraying and harvesting applications, with 2–4" (5–10 cm) accuracy. Full precision in less than 45 minutes*. Reliable, widely available satellite coverage.
OmniSTAR® G2
Best for high-performance broadacre seeding, spraying and harvesting applications. OmniSTAR® G2 offers 3–4" (8–10 cm) accuracy. Precise data in less than 20 minutes*. Reliable, widely available GNSS satellite coverage.
OmniSTAR® XP
Best for land-tillage applications and broadacre spraying, with 3–4" (8–10 cm) accuracy. Full accuracy in less than 45 minutes*. Reliable, widely available satellite coverage.
OmniSTAR® VBS
Use when your project requires a quick start-up. This service is suitable for broadacre crop spraying and harvesting, tillage applications and other functions in which accuracy and repeatability are not of the highest concern.
*Receiver convergence time varies based on GNSS constellation health, level of multipath, and proximity to obstructions such as large trees and buildings. Listed products should operate in areas with open views of the sky at all times. In ideal conditions, receivers can converge to a 11.8" position in approximately 10 minutes, 7.8" in 15 minutes, 3.9" in 30 minutes and full accuracy in less than 45 minutes.
Global Positioning System
No matter where you are in the world, OmniSTAR® uses the global navigation satellite system and mobile technology to offer global coverage, without the need for additional base stations.
High Accuracy Positioning
Trusted for over 30 years, OmniSTAR®'s GNSS satellites and position accuracy offer advanced land mapping tools enabling teams to reduce costs and increase productivity.
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Neil Bissoon
Global lead - OmniSTAR®
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