SatNav Services in Western Australia

Trimble (CA, USA) has supplied Global Navigation Satellite System reference stations and Virtual Reference Station software to establish a GNSS infrastructure network in Western Australia. Located in Perth, the network was built using Trimble NetR5 reference stations and is the first with GNSS capabilities. It is operated by GPSnetwork Perth and is the first privately owned VRS network in Australia.

The network is built with 5 Trimble NetR5 GNSS reference stations, Trimble GPSNet and RTKNet software.

Covering the entire metro-Perth area, the network's reference stations are installed from Two Rocks (37 miles or 60 kilometres north of Perth) to Mandurah (62 miles or 100km south of Perth) for a network area reach of 1,750 square miles (4,550 square km). The Perth VRS network provides high-accuracy positioning and surveying anywhere in the area without the need of an additional base station.

The network supports next-generation GPS L2C and L5 signals, as well as GLONASS signals.