When selecting the right accuracy level for your farm, you’re obviously trying to balance cost with potential input savings and crop yield improvements. What achieves great results for one farm, won’t necessarily produce the same results in a different crop or with different equipment. Let’s walk through the different accuracy levels and where they do best.

The common perception is that WAAS or EGNOS is good-enough for applications like tilling and field preparation, and that higher accuracy should be used for planting. While it’s certainly better than nothing, farmers using WAAS or EGNOS still end up with the potential for gaps or overlap due to low accuracy meaning they are spending more than necessary on seed, chemicals and other inputs. 

TerraStar-C and TerraStar-C PRO

Hexagon | NovAtel’s fastest global service for accuracy and efficiency is TerraStar-C PRO. This correction service level offers sub-inch accuracy at a fraction of the cost of setting up an RTK network. It also eliminates the reliance on a cellular modem and plan as corrections are delivered via satellite.

Outages? No longer an issue. Repeatability? Excellent.

NovAtel offers TerraStar-C PRO for those with a SMART7 receiver and TerraStar-C on the SMART6 receiver.

While these correction services do come with a cost, shrinking overlap from 6-8 inches down to less than 1 inch drastically improves efficiency of the operation and delivers input savings up to 10% back to the farmer. Reducing fuel, seed, fertilizer and chemical costs, while increasing yields is guaranteed to have a positive impact on the farmer’s bottom line.