Enhancing accuracy with next-generation satellite reception
Both navigation and surveying depend hugely on satellite navigation, as does precision agriculture among other technologies, these days. Fancy receivers and correction services tend to steal the show, but your GNSS antenna is just as important for the performance of your system. Since GNSS antennas are the first component to receive the satellite signal, they have an important effect on the positioning data quality. An optimal GNSS based antenna is expected to receive signals of various constellations, such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, etc. while suffering negligible attenuation. Similar (but opposite) could be said for GNSS antennas that are not of the highest quality however are produced to minimize multipath (reflected signals), have as high as possible values of the phase center all along the antenna (extremely important in high precision applications like RTK positioning or geodetic survey at that. And any GNSS receiver, no matter how high-end, can't provide the correct data wit...