Precision Farming: RTK GPS Corrections and Precision Applications

RTK positioning with centimeter precision by satellites

Guidance and autoguiding solutions by satellite positioning are becoming more popular in France, it is undeniable. More than one in two farmers are now equipped with an RTK GPS guidance solution and 15% with RTK autoguiding.

Today, RTK satellite geopositioning correction tools are the basic tools in precision agriculture but also in polyculture-livestock type structures. The offer of precision RTK GPS correction services is expanding more and more: this series of articles allows you to better understand this technology, its challenges and to get a good idea of ​​the possibilities that correspond to you.

The objectives are clear:

  • Have reliable support for your decision-making
  • Reduce chemical inputs
  • Conserve resources
  • Meet your traceability obligations
  • Control and reduce some of your operating costs
  • Have information about your activity and a history
  • Strengthen your expertise and knowledge
  • Reduce hardship
  • Have repetitive or complementary tasks carried out
  • Implement new practices
  • Focus on your most rewarding and productive tasks
  • Reduce musculoskeletal disorders
  • Improve your working and living comfort

Choose a GPS correction for your Farm

Géodata Diffusion offers you to take stock of the various solutions currently available on the market around GPS in agriculture and to support you in your choice. We would like to share with you the experience that we have acquired over many years in this field with a large number of farmers and users.
  • Guidance of agricultural machineryParcel survey
  • Guidance of autonomous machines (Drones, Robots, Irrigation system, etc.)
  • Telemetry
  • Cut of sections
  • Modulation (input or seed)
  • Innovations, new applications

Compatibility with all brands

The RTK Orphéon signal is compatible with all brands of equipment used in agriculture. Its availability and reliability also make it comfortable to use on a day-to-day basis, day and night. It becomes a universal tool in farms.

A controlled price

The drop in our prices in 2016 and the now very reasonable cost of our services allow you to access the best of RTK positioning technology and the excellence of our services without having to worry about commissioning or maintenance of a base station.

Le Roi de l’autoguidage… c’est le RTK.
Précision à 2 cm, répétabilité …
Il n’y a rien de plus précis.

In order to offer offers perfectly adapted to the needs of users, we have designed several subscription formulas. Our commercial offer is very clear and very flexible. So, in complete transparency, you only pay for what you really need.

The advantages of the network

In your professional practice, you can count on the knowledge, the know-how and the centimetric precision of the Orphéon network to meet your missions and your obligations. The network has been thought out and designed according to the rules of the art, it is constantly monitored and checked regularly. (Le réseau-Orphéon).

Everything has been thought out to allow you to benefit from increased productivityand move from one site to another without wasting time

With the Orphéon network, you work with identical precision throughout the territory thanks to a uniform distribution of stations in metropolitan France and the West Indies. Whatever your position, the distance from the nearest reference station is never more than 30 km.

100% Galileo and BeiDou correction services in addition to GPS and GLONASS:

  • more satellites (+22 Galileo)
  • faster fixing,
  • more measurement stability,
  • more availability,
  • better positioning
  • fewer multipaths
RTK precision positioning allows you to geo-reference your measurements simply and confidently in the national reference system in real time to save production time. Or even as a control tool thanks to the post-processing available online.
RTK precision positioning allows you to geo-reference your measurements simply and confidently in the national reference system in real time to save production time. Or even as a control tool thanks to the post-processing available online.
A regular mesh and a reinforced infrastructure for you to secure data transfer, for greater reliability and repeatability on a daily basis.
The availability of the service gives the possibility to work from day to night, in foggy weather etc. by focusing their attention on the GPS guidance tool and no longer on driving for an always impeccable result

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