Rugged, All-In-One Solution

• Combines unprecedented strength and durability into a compact form that is easy to use and virtually indestructible
• The most rugged receiver Trimble has ever built, so you won’t experience downtime with equipment that doesn’t work
• Onboard sensor shows verticality on field controller screen; Work more efficiently and save time when you're in the dark, in hard-to-reach locations or can't easily see the rod bubble
• Longer battery life in the field helps you to keep working longer

Trimble xFill technology expands site productivity by allowing short excursions into valleys and other locations where GNSS corrections were not previously available.

Using the Trimble SPS986 GNSS Smart Antenna and Trimble Siteworks Positioning Software, you can capture accurate points while standing, walking or driving the site in a vehicle while the receiver is not level. From inside the vehicle, contractors can set the height of the antenna and quickly interrogate surface models using the real-time 3D surface display. Tilt compensation allows for faster data collection—creating larger digital terrain models faster and with improved accuracy.

• Easy to learn for beginners and saves time for experienced surveyors
• Easily and safely survey hard-to-reach areas (corners, traffic lanes, utility flowlines)
• Capture higher accuracy measurements on steeper slopes, even from a moving vehicle
• Capture more accurate volume measurements to save time and money on material planning
• Auto-measure antenna height
• Faster measurements and more efficient stake-outs
• No magnetic interference

The Trimble SPS986 GNSS Smart Antenna and SCS900 Site Controller Software are ideal for:

• Measuring and verifying original ground levels and site features
• Monitoring real-time cut/fill information
• Checking finished grade and laid material thickness against design elevations and tolerances
• Computing progress and material stockpile volumes
• Monitoring and conducting quality control for earthworks and paving operations
• Assessing as-built measurements and generating high-quality reports for approvals and payment
• Recording tilt data when taking measurements

Rover
When used as a rover, the SPS986 enables a wide variety of site measurement tasks including pole-mounting for grade-checking, ATV-mounting for progress monitoring, and truck-mounting for site supervision.

For initial site reconnaissance, you can deploy it with satellite-delivered GNSS corrections without a base station. For higher accuracy site measurements such as grade-checking, it can receive Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections via the internal wideband radio, Wi-Fi or the Internet.

A grade checker can mount the SPS986 to an ATV and easily conduct site topos, check as-builts and verify road centerlines where it is not easy or safe to walk with a range pole. Extending its productivity, the same unit can then be mounted on the roof of a supervisor's truck roof to collect and manage progress data.

Wi-Fi Base Station
As a base station, the SPS986 incorporates Wi-Fi communications for small site projects and wideband radio for long-range operations on large projects.

Designed for ease of use, it will automatically establish a connection and transmit RTK corrections to another rover or machine control system. When it is that easy, construction crews can spend more time doing the work and less time setting up and maintaining the equipment.