We appear incompletely before you this month. A funny thing happened on the way to the presses: we discovered that we had more content than pages in which to squeeze it. “All the news that fits to...
Swift Navigation, a firm specializing in GNSS positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, looks back on a year of progress in 2019 and forward to what’s ahead in 2020. 2019...
An Object-Oriented Software Platform Suitable for Multiple Receivers By Eliot Wycoff, Yuting Ng, and Grace Xingxin Gao INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY...
Some ups and downs for unmanned aircraft this month — good news that there is further progress on the pseudo-satellite front, but we also have MIL-SPEC drones lost to shoot-downs and recent crash...
Beyond GPS report. Check out the report here. (Cover: NSI) George Mason University has revised a briefing paper on positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) in response to concerns about its...
Third Generation of the Ellipse Series of IMUs. Clockwise from top: Models D, E, A and N. (Photo: SBG Systems) Not just supporting players, alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)...
Image: Drotek Drotek Electronics is now offering the F9P Sirius RTK GNSS Rover, which is designed to be mounted on a moving vehicle. The u-blox ZED-F9P module inside provides 1-cm position accuracy,...
A Chinese cargo ship, the Rongda Changsha , equipped with receivers downloading signals from the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), arrived at Brunei, on the north coast of the island of...
Third Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III satellite climbs to orbit on its own power GPS III SV03 increases number of secure military code (M-code) enabled satellites in GPS constellation to 22 total. ...
Spirent Communications today introduced the GSS6300M range of multi-channel GPS and multi-GNSS simulators for receiver integrators, application developers, aftercare and production testing...
Image: Racelogic Racelogic Ltd. has released the latest update to its SatGen GNSS simulation software for PC, which now incorporates Galileo RF simulation. Designed to create a GNSS RF I&Q...
A Companion Measure of Systematic Effects By Dennis Milbert GPS receivers must deal with measurements and models that have some degree of error, which gets propagated into the position solution. If...
Image: NovAtel NovAtel’s Waypoint Products Group has released version 8.80 of its GNSS and GNSS+INS post-processing software products, including Inertial Explorer, Inertial...
Image: Quectel Quectel Wireless Solutions has launched a compact dual-band GNSS module, the LC79D, that supports the L1 and L5 bands from navigation satellites to improve positioning accuracy....
The Allystar INS Platform — the company’s latest technology — is a dual-antenna, multi-frequency, multi-GNSS inertial navigation system (INS) that delivers accurate and reliable...
Mitigation Through Adaptive Filtering for Machine Automation Applications By Luis Serrano, Don Kim, and Richard B. Langley Multipath is real and omnipresent, a detriment when GPS is used for...
Testing GNSS Receivers with Record and Playback Techniques By David A. Hall Is there a way to perform repeatable tests on GNSS receivers using real signals? This month’s column looks at how to use...
In November, December, and January, a regulatory drama with high potential impact on the GPS signal and domestic U.S. GPS users began unfolding before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As...
The annual ION GNSS+ 2020 Conference scheduled to take place Sept. 21-25 in St. Louis, Missouri, will now be held entirely virtually. The Institute of Navigation (ION) made the decision after careful...
M3 Systems is now offering the StellaNGC multi-constellation GNSS simulator based on the National Instruments (NI) vector signal transceiver. The simulator is designed for the testing of satellite...