Outback S Touch Screen (Outback Sts)
name: label: maker
content: Hemisphere GPS. Outback Guidance Division
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Time and Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0221.02
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0221.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0221
label: maker number
content: 902-1049-000#_0912
label: serial number
content: 1100188
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gps display unit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: 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