Hemisphere GPS designs and manufactures precision GPS products for positioning, guidance, and machine control

Machine control

In civil engineering, machine control is used to accurately position earthwork machinery based on 3D design models and GPS systems, and thus aid machine operators to e.g. control the position of a road grader's blade...

 applications. The company’s products are most notably used in agriculture, under the trade name Outback Guidance. However, Hemisphere GPS also holds significant market share in marine, surveying

Surveying

See Also: Public Land Survey SystemSurveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them...

, GIS mapping and machine control markets.

Hemisphere GPS is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta; with product development, sales and marketing facilities in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...

; Hiawatha, Kansas

Hiawatha, Kansas

Hiawatha is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. It is the largest city on U.S. Route 36 between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado.Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

 and Brisbane, Australia.


Hemisphere GPS is a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange

Toronto Stock Exchange

Toronto Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in Canada, the third largest in North America and the seventh largest in the world by market capitalisation. Based in Canada's largest city, Toronto, it is owned by and operated as a subsidiary of the TMX Group for the trading of senior equities...

under the ticker symbol: HEM.

Former trade names and business acquisitions include:

• 1990 – Canadian Systems International Inc.
• 1992 – Communication Systems International Inc.
• 1999 – Satloc Inc.
• 2000 – CSI Wireless
• 2005 – RHS Inc. (Outback Guidance)
• 2006 – Del Norte
• 2007 – BEELINE Technologies

External links

• http://www.hemispheregps.com - Hemisphere GPS Home Page
• http://www.outbackguidance.com - Outback Guidance Home Page