It seems as if the world is beginning not to exist unless it is measured and stored on a hard drive somewhere. The web started with two University computers talking to each other over a phone line, each sharing data created by users. Now, the Internet is expanding itself, and we’re expanding the voluminous amounts of data available in the cloud involuntarily.
GPS is one of the most fascinating aspects of the web’s expansion… and its importance in industry. Global Positioning satellites take what’s real—coordinates, latitude, longitude, altitude—and automatically turns it into data. Data is what really runs the world; it’s what decision-makers analyze and dissect and meditate upon and capitalize on.
Finding new avenues of acquiring, analyzing and then monetizing that data is the driving force of the “New Industrial Age.” In Brazil and China, two large economies, GPS is transforming the way surveying takes place—and in turn transforming the most important of all assets, land.
Brazil and China: Economic Figureheads
China is much bandied about in foreign policy circles, and is poised to become the largest economy in the world. Meanwhile, Brazil, the fifth largest nation in the world and operates the world’s sixth largest economy. The key to both Brazil and China is exports. The key to exports is agriculture, mining and manufacturing. And the key to all three of those industries is land and resources. None of those resources can be obtained without proper mapping.
The Need for Hyper-accurate GPS in Surveying
Hemisphere GPS, a Brazil-centered GPS device manufacturer, has just announced strategic partnerships with Brazil’s SightGPS and China’s Suzhou Phenix Suokaya Photoelectric Technology Co. Both are GPS companies centered on surveying. Both play pivotal roles in some of the most fundamental and important aspects of the economy both in China and Brazil. Both are poised to have a place in the world’s economic future.
Hyper-accurate GPS mapping gets companies the data, which drives decision-making and drives business. Without easy data gathering techniques in surveying, especially those provided by GPS mapping, industry might run with far less efficiency.
Using GPS to Drive Economic Success
Global Positioning products from Hemisphere GPS is helping to contribute, albeit slowly, to the world’s gradual recovery from economic regress. Only time will tell how GPS will make industry more efficient and fluid in years to come.