Ag Leader Technology Blog

The latest firmware updates for the INTEGRA and EDGE displays were released today, offering several enhancements and new features for customers. With these new features, the displays offer even greater functionality for your operation, and the firmware enhancements address many common requests.
The INTEGRA display will gain several new features with this update, including compatibility with [...]

Guidance and steering systems are becoming more and more popular in the precision ag world. There are several levels of guidance and steering options for your precision farming operation, and most of these fall into three areas: manual guidance, assisted steering or automated steering.  All of these steering options rely on GNSS to determine your [...]

Now that we’ve explained GNSS and differential correction, we want to talk about ways that you can utilize these technologies for precision farming. GNSS is the basis of many precision ag technologies; it allows you to map and track in-field actions within those field maps. This process is known as georeferencing.
In precision farming, georeferencing refers [...]

OmniSTAR
OmniSTAR is a wide-area differential GPS service, using a network of base stations surveyed to centimeter accuracy.

OmniSTAR offers wide-area differential correction by using geo-stationary satellites to broadcast correction data over a large area. OmniSTAR differential correction is subscription-based, which allows you to pay for the level of accuracy you need. Currently, three levels [...]

Earlier this week we started discussing differential correction as it applies to your precision farming practices. There are several options for differential correction services, and the service you use should be based on your precision farming operation. To help determine which differential correction service you should use, we will describe some of the most common [...]

As we discussed in last week’s lessons about GNSS, a very high level of navigational accuracy is necessary to utilize precision ag technologies. Because GNSS alone does not provide positioning signals that are accurate enough for precision farming, differential correction is used to allow for better accuracy.
Differential correction is a technique to improve the accuracy [...]

As we discussed earlier this week, the acronym “GNSS” encompasses all satellite navigation networks currently available and in development. The most advanced GNSS networks are GPS and GLONASS.

GPS (Global Positioning System) is the United States’ constellation of 24 satellites, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense. Traditionally, GPS has been the most commonly used [...]

GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems – is an acronym that you may not commonly hear in the precision ag discussion. However, this is the general term for satellite navigation systems that you likely hear quite often, such as GPS or GLONASS.
GPS and GLONASS are both satellite navigation systems specific to the country or region [...]