Lowrance GPS Accuracy: Seeing is believing!

A quick post to demonstrate the precision of Lowrance’s internal WAAS corrected GPS antennae is in a variety of open water environments.  Docks? Boat lifts? Overhanging trees?  No problem.  WAAS correction in North America is explained here.  Have a look at a couple examples in ciBioBase:

GPS Track from a Lowrance HDS on Newport Bay, California overlain onto a bathymetry map created by automated processing of the Lowrance .sl2 log file by ciBioBase.  This trip was used for water volume calculations, bathymetry, and vegetation mapping

GPS tracks and ciBioBase derived bathymetry map in a 3-acre pond in a wooded valley in a metropolitan area of Minnesota, an example of retention pond volume monitoring.

GPS tracks and ciBioBase derived contour map of a 3-acre pond in Illinois for water
volume and aquatic vegetation analysis

GPS tracks around docks and boat lifts and ciBioBase derived contour map on Grand Lake O the Cherokees near Tulsa  Oklahoma.  The satellite even shows data collection in an area where a boat can be moored next to the dock.  That’s close!

Author: biobasemaps

BioBase is a cloud platform for the automated mapping of aquatic habitats (lakes, rivers, ponds, coasts). Standard algorithms process sonar datafiles (EcoSound) and high resolution satellite imagery (EcoSat). Depth and vegetation maps and data reports are rapidly created and stored in a private cloud account for analysis, and sharing. This blog highlights a range of internal and external research, frequently asked questions, feature descriptions and highlights, tips and tricks, and photo galleries.

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