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ZED-X20D vs UM982 vs mosaic-G5: Best RTK Dual-Antenna for Drones 2026

May 18, 2026

Are you developing a drone and not sure which RTK module is best for your project? Here is a side-by-side comparison of the three recommended dual-antenna modules. All three provide centimeter-level RTK positioning and GNSS-based heading (yaw) that works even with short antenna baselines (as low as 50 cm). They also support roll and pitch output in dual-antenna mode. Get centimeter-level RTK positioning and high-accuracy attitude (heading, roll & pitch)

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How 5G Gateways and RTK Are Solving Real Problems in Farming

March 12, 2026

I spend a fair amount of time reading about what’s coming down the pipe in farming tech. Some of it is obvious marketing fluff. Some of it actually makes you stop and think about how you’d use it on your own ground. A recent piece I came across from TrugemTech got into the combination of 5G gateways and RTK, and it pulled together a few things I’d been turning over in my head.

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6 Ways RTK Boundaries Are Making My Farm Run Smarter

March 12, 2026

I’m not the kind of farmer who buys new tech just because it’s shiny. Usually, I wait until the neighbour has tested it for a couple of seasons and worked out the bugs. But when the local co-op started pushing RTK boundaries a few years back, I figured I’d give it a go on a few fields. Just to see. Honestly? Some of the benefits I expected. Some I didn’t.

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Navigating Without a Compass: Why I’m Watching the ZED-X20D

March 12, 2026

I’ve been working with GNSS for long enough to remember when getting a reliable heading meant babying a magnetometer and praying there wasn’t a steel beam anywhere nearby. A couple of years ago, we were testing an autonomous warehouse rover in a hangar—cold, echoey, full of metal shelving. The heading kept drifting, sometimes by 15 degrees or more. We swapped cables, updated firmware, tweaked filters. Took us three days to

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Breaking the Canopy Barrier: How BOKU’s Human-Centered AI is Revolutionizing RTK Precision in Forestry

March 11, 2026

Precision is the heartbeat of modern geomatics, but for decades, that heart has skipped a beat whenever a surveyor stepped under the “green shield” of a forest canopy. While Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) positioning has mastered the open field, the dense, multi-layered environments of forest stands have remained a final frontier of sorts—riddled with signal drops, “float” solutions, and the dreaded “multipath” ghosts. However, a landmark study from the University of

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Low-Cost RTK in Archaeology: Precision Grid Materialization at the Piscina Torta Site

February 8, 2026

The intersection of high-precision satellite positioning and cultural heritage has traditionally been a costly affair, reserved for large-scale excavations with significant budgets. However, a recent paper presented at the IMEKO TC-4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology has demonstrated that “low-cost” doesn’t have to mean “low-precision.” The study, titled “Intensive archaeological survey at Piscina Torta: use of a low-cost RTK portable kit to materialise a UTM grid on the ground,”

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How AI-Driven “Trust Metrics” are Solving RTK GNSS Challenges in Precision Forestry

March 3, 2025

By: Editorial Team, Precision-GNSS.com Ref: Sensors for Digital Transformation in Smart Forestry (BOKU, 2024) In the world of high-precision positioning, we have long lived by a binary code: Fix or Float. It is a digital “all or nothing” that dictates whether a surveyor can proceed or must wait, frustrated, for a better satellite geometry. But as we integrate the groundbreaking research from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

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