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Home›Green Marine›RTK GPS Positioning Guides Construction of ‘The World’
Green Marine

May 28, 2007 · about 19 years ago

RTK GPS Positioning Guides Construction of ‘The World’

Just a few kilometers offshore in the sunny waters of the Arabian Gulf, the giant dredging combine Van Oord NV works on the largest project ever undertaken by a single marine contractor: building “The World.” This massive job, a multi-billion dollar land reclamation effort, will create a 60-squareki

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Just a few kilometers offshore in the sunny waters of the Arabian Gulf, the giant dredging combine Van Oord NV works on the largest project ever undertaken by a single marine contractor: building “The World.” This massive job, a multi-billion dollar land reclamation effort, will create a 60-squarekilometer fantasy archipelago of luxury resort islands. One key to making the work cost-effective is high-precision, Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS positioning.

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