Asset monitoring with total stations is more common and better known than monitoring with other spatial sensors, and for good reason — total stations are a great choice in most situations, given their ability to monitor up to hundreds of points from a single setup, in real time and with high accuracy. We explored those in our November 2014 column, “How to Use Total Stations Effectively in Asset Monitoring” (http://bit.ly/12YmRlz).

But GNSS monitoring also has its place. In fact, there are many challenging monitoring projects that require the special capabilities of GNSS receivers, sometimes by themselves and sometimes in combination with total stations.