Tuesday, July 14, 2009

ESRI User Conference July 2009

I'm at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego this week. I'm helping Jean-Yves Lauture with the Geneq booth. The primary product that we are promoting is the SXBlue II GPS unit. Jean-Yves is the design engineer who developed the SXBlue. His knowledge of this GPS unit is phenomenal. He is also very good at selling it; because he knows so much about the SXBlue and the competition.

Jean-Yves was asked what the next really big breakthrough will be in GPS. His answer... the new satellites with the L5 code. The L5 code will allow us to get 15 centimeter accuracy with the SXBlue and WAAS. Unfortunately, it will be 4 or 5 years before enough L5 satellites are in orbit.

The ESRI User Conference is down in attendance about 30% this year. There are still 10,000 people here, so we have been very busy. Last night I went to a dinner sponsored by Laser Technology. It was a grand event and a lot of fun. The president of Laser Technology, David Williams, was there as was most of the senior management. What a great bunch of people!

Last week's trivia question: What rhymes with the words "Month" and "Purple"? Answer: Nothing. No normal word rhymes with either one.

All for now!

Jon Aschenbach

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