Object Details
- Hemisphere GPS. Outback Guidance Division
- Description
- The Outback Sts is a GPS-based farming system designed to provide precision guidance for farm machinery. The system was manufactured in 2012 by Hemisphere GPS (renamed AgSolution in 2013), a company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Roy Bardole used this touch-screen computer and a GPS antenna to receive enhanced GPS signals for working corn and soybean acreage in Iowa. With the equipment, he could set a work area perimeter, instruct tractors and implements to steer automatically on either a straight or contoured path, and log data about the work accomplished.
- Satellite navigation helps farmers meet the challenge of increasing crop yields and lowering costs. They can use precise positioning to plant and harvest faster and more efficiently than ever before, and by applying fertilizers and pesticides more precisely, they can reduce the environmental impact of raising crops.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2012.0221.02
- catalog number
- 2012.0221.02
- accession number
- 2012.0221
- maker number
- 902-1049-000#_0912
- serial number
- 1100188
- Object Name
- gps display unit
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- black (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- grey (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 1/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 15.5575 cm x 21.2725 cm x 6.35 cm
- place made
- China
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Time and Navigation
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1428231
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-97cd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
