TerraGo® Partners with CHC Navigation to Deliver High Accuracy and Improved Productivity to Mobile GPS Data Collection

TerraGo Edge® integrates with high-accuracy, affordable GPS receivers to provide sub-meter and cm-level accuracy to mobile data collection users on iOS® and Android® devices



TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces a technology partnership with CHC Navigation that combines the mobile GPS collaboration platform, TerraGo Edge, with CHC’s rugged high-accuracy GNSS systems to meet the needs of the most demanding field positioning tasks.

TerraGo Edge now offers advanced integration and support for CHC’s line of GNSS receivers, including the X20i DGPS and X91i RTK high-accuracy receivers. Bringing cost-effective, half-meter and sub-inch performance to smartphone and tablet users, these compact, cable-free and lightweight units are rugged enough for any field environment.

“TerraGo Edge and CHC are helping lead the mobile GPS revolution with survey-grade accuracy and intuitive workflows at a price point that provides an immediate return on investment,” said Lance André, North American Manager for CHC Navigation. “With our X20i and X91i receivers, users get the accuracy they need with the shortest possible site occupations, making this an ideal high-accuracy companion for TerraGo Edge field users.”
TerraGo Edge meets the needs of GPS users, survey teams and GIS departments while delivering substantial cost savings over legacy technology. The TerraGo Edge app directly integrates with CHC’s GPS/GNSS receivers to give mobile users dynamic monitoring and capturing of high-precision GPS data on iOS® and Android® devices. For GIS departments, TerraGo Edge provides the ability to define minimum accuracy standards, as well as the tools to monitor the data quality while uploading the information to the GIS system of record. Many organizations are able to reduce costs by 90 percent or more by leveraging modern, mobile devices to replace proprietary handhelds.

“TerraGo Edge combined with a CHC GNSS receiver is a superior solution for our customers in utility, energy and other industries that require high-accuracy data collection,” said Dave Basil, VP of Products and Services at TerraGo. “Our integration makes it possible to capture the full fidelity and GPS data record with a user experience and features unmatched by legacy GPS data collectors.”

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About TerraGo
TerraGo develops software applications and mobile apps that make it easy for our customers to collect data, share information and work together anywhere, any time. From sharing feature-rich maps and imagery to deploying on-demand apps for a mobile workforce, TerraGo builds intuitive products that enable collaboration from any place on the planet.

Founded in 2005, TerraGo invented the industry’s most widely-adopted geospatial collaboration technology with its innovative GeoPDF products and is revolutionizing field data collection with its TerraGo Edge mobile platform.

TerraGo’s customers include the world’s leading defense and intelligence departments, government agencies, non-profits and commercial enterprises in every industry, with over 2,000 global customers based in over 70 countries and all 50 US states.

About CHC Navigation
CHC Navigation designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of professional GPS/GNSS solutions in more than 70 countries. Privately owned with over 800 professionals and local offices worldwide including a full-service office in the US heartland. For more information, visit http://www.chcnav.com.

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Mobile App Puts Power of Place in People’s Hands

New Featured Maps Deliver Insights into Mankind’s Relationship with the World

Available for iPhone and Android, Field Notes—Earth lets you pick a place (left), pick your profiles (center), and get results about your place.

Smartphone users now have access to Field Notes—Earth, a new mobile app from Esri that employs the power of geography to answer questions about locations throughout the world. Built using Esri’s AppStudio for ArcGIS, the free app allows anyone to discover interesting facts about population, nature, and physical landscapes for any location on Earth.

“Field Notes—Earth leverages the tremendous capabilities of geographic information to describe the world in detail,” said Esri president, Jack Dangermond. “Tools like these update and transform our understanding and expectations in ways that help us be wiser citizens of the planet.”

With an intuitive design available on Android and iOS devices, the app gives users the option to discover answers to questions about their hometown, current residence, or any place of interest. It lets them compare these findings to an additional location.

After selecting an initial place via current location, search, or by dropping a pin on a map, the app reveals geographic insights for three categories—Natural, Physical, and People. Sample questions include: How crowded is it in this location? How close am I to a recent earthquake area? What is the predicted 2050 change in average temperature? And much more.

“Whether you are relocating, are an educator looking for a new teaching resource, or just curious about the world around you, the app reveals insights into the complexity of humanity’s relationship with Earth for everyone to enjoy,” said Sean Breyer, ArcGIS content program manager at Esri.

In addition to exploring 18 questions, users can click on any answer for more details and to learn how the selected locations relate to the rest of the world’s landscape and populations. The app reveals, for example, that the majority of people live in very hot climates and more than 40 percent of the Earth’s soil is poor for most crops.

Field Notes—Earth utilizes maps from Esri’s Living Atlas of the World, including the World Ecological Land Units map that shows the Earth’s complex ecosystems; the new World Seafloor Geomorphology map that reveals the complex role oceans play in Earth systems; and the World Population Estimate map that shows where people live.

Esri’s Content Team created the app using AppStudio for ArcGIS, which lets you build an app once and have it automatically ready for Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, and Linux.

The app is available for free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com.

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TerraGo Launches Affiliate Referral Program to Support Increasing Market Demand for BYOD GPS Solutions

New partner program designed to improve collaboration with GPS solution providers that combine the power of TerraGo Edge on iOS® and Android® with industry’s high-accuracy GPS receivers

TerraGo, a leading geospatial and GPS collaboration company, has launched a new partner program that will benefit GPS manufacturers, partners and ultimately the shared customers that deploy TerraGo Edge® combined with the industry’s most accurate and dependable GPS receivers.

The TerraGo Affiliate Referral Program offers GPS dealers, GIS resellers and consultants the opportunity to partner with TerraGo, the industry’s leading mobile GPS data collection software provider, to gain a competitive edge, drive more product sales and implement more successful customer projects.

In today’s mobile world, more and more enterprises are switching from proprietary GPS handhelds to smartphone and tablets to realize massive cost savings and dramatic productivity improvements. Single-use, GPS devices are increasingly being challenged and replaced with the superior hardware performance and software capabilities of iOS® and Android® devices with TerraGo Edge. Paired with high-accuracy, Bluetooth GPS receivers provided by TerraGo Affiliate Partners, TerraGo Edge can meet or exceed the most demanding user requirements.

“The industry is undergoing a technology transformation, away from outdated GPS devices and towards BYOD solutions like TerraGo Edge which deliver superior performance at a fraction of the cost”, said Summer Benish, VP of Sales Operations and Customer Success at TerraGo. “This program makes it easy to join forces with our partners to give the customer exactly the GPS performance they need with the best receivers and the best GPS collection app available in the market.”

For more information on the TerraGo Affiliate program, click here. To learn more about the program and TerraGo Edge, register for the upcoming webinar, ‘Gaining the Competitive Edge: A TerraGo Affiliate Program Overview’, scheduled for Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 2 PM. Register here.

About TerraGo
TerraGo develops software applications and mobile apps that make it easy for our customers to collect data, share information and work together anywhere, any time. From sharing feature-rich maps and imagery to deploying on-demand apps for a mobile workforce, TerraGo builds intuitive products that enable collaboration from any place on the planet.

Founded in 2005, TerraGo invented the industry’s most widely adopted geospatial collaboration technology with its innovative GeoPDF products and is revolutionizing field data collection with its TerraGo Edge mobile platform.

TerraGo’s customers include the world’s leading defense and intelligence departments, government agencies, non-profits and commercial enterprises in every industry, with over 2,000 global customers based in over 70 countries and all 50 US states.

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