Utility locating system with mobile base station

A mobile buried utility locating system, comprising:

• a vehicle;
• one or more buried utility locators;
• a plurality of antennas disposed on the vehicle, the antennas including a positioning system antenna for receiving positioning signals for determining positions information of the vehicle and a wireless local area network (WLAN) antenna for receiving and sending radio signals;
• a satellite positioning system receiver, operatively coupled to an output of the positioning system antenna, for determining positioning information of the vehicle based on the received positioning signals;
• a WLAN antenna and a WLAN transceiver, operatively coupled to an output of the WLAN antenna, for receiving and sending radio signals including data from and to the one or more buried utility locator transceivers and the one or more buried utility locator transmitter transceivers;
• a processing element disposed on or mounted to on the vehicle, wherein the processing element is configured to communicate with the one or more positioning system receivers and the WLAN transceiver to process data received from the one or more buried utility locators and one or more buried utility locator transmitters and store positioning data determined in the positioning system receiver in conjunction with the locator and/or transmitter data in a non-transitory memory;
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• a power supply subsystem, disposed on or mounted to the vehicle, for providing electrical power for the processing element, positioning system receiver, and WLAN transceiver.