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Article: Hillside harmony: tapping Global Positioning Satellite technology makes surveying and grading faster and more accurate while preserving topography. (Slope Solution).(Brief Article)
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- February 1, 2003
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IT's BEEN USED IN WAR. IT WILL SOON BE PART OF cell phone technology. And now Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology has utility for home builders too.
Glenn Martin, vice president of project management for Standard Pacific Homes (North California East Bay division), is pioneering what may soon become business as usual.
Martin works with a grading contractor that uses a satellite technology grading control system called SiteVision, one of several systems available from Trimble Navigation.
Thus far, Standard Pacific has used the system in two locations: Sanctuary Valley in Fairfield, Calif., in the rolling foothills of Solano County, ...