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Introduction
The RTK Surveyor from SparkFun is your one stop shop for high precision geolocation and surveying needs. For basic users, it’s incredibly easy to get up and running and for advanced users, the RTK Surveyor is a flexible and powerful tool.
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GPS-18443
The SparkFun RTK Surveyor is an enclosed and ready to use GNSS receiver for centimeter-level positioning. No programming requ…
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With just a few minutes of setup, the RTK Surveyor is one of the fastest ways to take centimeter grade measurements.
An RTK Fix in SW Maps
By connecting your phone to the RTK Surveyor over Bluetooth, your phone can act as the radio link to provide correction data as well as receive the NMEA output from the device. It’s how $10,000 surveying devices have been operating for the past decade - we just made it easier, smaller, and a lot cheaper.
Required Materials
While the RTK Surveyor is nicely enclosed you will need a few cables and antennas to make everything work. We'll go into the specifics of how to hook things together but in general you will need to get a good quality L1/L2 antenna:
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GPS-17751
The TOP106 from TOPGNSS is a certified GNSS/GPS surveying antenna capable of receiving the L1/L2 bands for GPS, GLONASS, Gali…
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PRT-17546
This aluminum adapter converts the very common 1/4" thread found on camera tri-pods and mono-pods to the 5/8" 11-TPI (threads…
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CAB-17833
This is a 300mm long Male TNC to Male SMA cable. This is an excellent cable for connecting one of our RTK development boards …
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Depending on your setup you may want to use your phone for RTCM correction data. If a source is not available online, you will need a 2nd RTK Facet setup in base mode and a radio link connecting the Base to the Rover. We'll go into details but we designed RTK Facet to work with these 100mW 915MHz telemetry radios out of the box. You will also need an adapter cable between the Telemetry Radio and RTK Surveyor.
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WRL-19032
The 915MHz SiK Telemetry Radio V3 is a lightweight and inexpensive open source radio platform that can allow for ranges of 30…
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CAB-17239
This ~6" cable is designed to connect our [RTK Surveyor](https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17369) product line to the popular…
To charge the RTK Surveyor you will need a USB C cable and a power supply. SparkFun carries a few options:
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CAB-16905
1 Meter USB Type C to Type C cable USB 2.0 data transfer capabilities.
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CAB-15425
These 0.8m cables have minor modifications that allow them to be be plugged into their ports regardless of orientation on the…
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TOL-16272
This is a USB Type-C Power Supply that is compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4.
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TOL-16893
This USB AC to DC power supply will do 5V at 2A!
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Suggested Reading
GNSS RTK is an incredible feat of engineering that has been made easy to use by powerful GNSS receivers such as the ZED-F9P by u-blox (the receiver inside RTK Surveyor). The process of setting up an RTK system will be covered in this tutorial but if you want to know more about RTK here are some good tutorials to brush up on:
What is GPS RTK?
Learn about the latest generation of GPS and GNSS receivers to get 14mm positional accuracy!
Setting up a Rover Base RTK System
Getting GNSS RTCM correction data from a base to a rover is easy with a serial telemetry radio! We'll show you how to get your high precision RTK GNSS system setup and running.
How to Build a DIY GNSS Reference Station
Learn how to affix a GNSS antenna, use PPP to get its ECEF coordinates and then broadcast your own RTCM data over the internet and cellular using NTRIP to increase rover reception to 10km!