Fugro's state-of-the-art STARFIX Differential GPS (DGPS) services have been developed specifically to meet the offshore community's demand for highly accurate world-wide positioning. Differential GPS algorithms, developed by Fugro, remove both natural errors and man-made errors from the US Department of Defence's orbiting satellite System GPS. Fugro's STARFIX DGPS services have access to more than 80 land-based reference stations, with permanently manned control centres in Houston and Perth. Real-time data is delivered world-wide over a network of high and low power satellite links.

Fugro's STARFIX DGPS satellite-based services are used by the offshore oil industry to precisely position ships, rigs, platforms and other installations.Derivative solutions serve other marine activities, including defence, telecommunications, fast ferries, cruise liners and other marine civil engineering projects, vessel tracking and fleet management.