On May 7, the GPS Directorate will hold a virtual Public Interface Control Working Group Meeting. The meeting will take place 8:30–10:30 a.m. PST. During the meeting, the directorate will review...
We used to divide GPS receivers into consumer grade, resource grade and survey grade. Have these categories been replaced by a continuum of GNSS capabilities? Clem Driscoll “In the U.S....
A business and academic consortium led by Chronos Technology has received a major grant from the U.K. government sponsored Technology Strategy Board for a £2.2 million (approximately $3.3 million)...
Workshop participants from Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya assemble a Mindstorm robot to trial autonomous navigation. By Patricia Doherty Last year I helped coordinate a three-week workshop for 50...
The U.S. Department of Transportation will host a third workshop to continue discussions of the GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment on March 12. The workshop will focus on the following...
Can They Be Better? By Tony Haddrell, Marino Phocas, and Nico Ricquier We examine the antenna designs that provide GPS functionality to mobile phones and why most phones still do not provide GPS...
Actions Necessary to Reduce Vulnerability and Ensure Availability By Brad Parkinson (From the 25th Anniversary GNSS History Special Supplement) Introduction Brad Parkinson About 40 years ago , we...
The Galileo Test and Development Environment (GATE) in Berchtesgaden, Germany, officially opened on February 4. The system operator, IFEN GmbH of Poing, Germany, jointly with the German...
Its Algorithms and Performance The authors test three mass-market design drivers on a chip developed expressly for a new role as a combined GPS and Galileo consumer receiver: the time-to-first-fix...
Norway has electronic proof that Russian forces disrupted GPS signals during recent NATO war games, according to a report in Reuters news service. The Scandinavian country and North Atlantic Treaty...
Yang Changfeng, chief architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, speaks at an international event. (Photo: BDS) On July 31, 2020, BDS-3, the global version of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite...
JEDI-200 reduces the energy of getting one position fix by up to 150 times, according to the company. Photo: Kolmostar Kolmostar, a positioning technology company, has launched an ultra-low-power...
Different platform configurations rapidly emerge Drones continue to move further into everyday life and activity as they become more involved in applications that touch almost everyone. Previously a...
The UAS1 GNSS receiver module has been designed for UAV/UAS applications requiring centimeter accuracy in a small package. (Photo: Trimble) Trimble has introduced a compact, high-precision GNSS...
Galileo’s Ground Mission Segment in the Fucino Control Centre in Italy oversees Galileo navigation services and satellite payload operations. News from the European Space Agency In Roman times the...
GPS signals extend farther than expected, meaning future space missions can reliably use GPS at extreme altitudes. By Danny Baird NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland The four...
A New Way to Test GNSS Receivers By Alexander Mitelman INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley GNSS RECEIVER TESTING SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT TO CHANCE. Or should it? There are two common approaches to...
Seven technologies that put GPS in mobile phones around the world — the how and why of location’s entry into modern consumer mobile communications. By Frank van Diggelen, Broadcom Corporation...
On November 18, a Consultation Event will take place in Brussels on the subject of receiver technology. The event is being held to inform the stakeholders of the European GNSS receiver community...
LORD Corporation has released the latest version of its SensorConnect sensing software, featuring significant updates that support sensor management and data collection and visualization for...