Topcon’s NET-G5 receiver and CR-G5-C antenna. Topcon Positioning Group said that its latest GNSS reference receiver, the NET-G5, is capable of tracking a new signal from the GLONASS...
By Urs Niesen, Jubin Jose, Xinzhou Wu, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Emerging automotive applications require reliable but at the same time low-cost positioning solutions. In this paper, we present such...
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...
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...
News from the European Space Agency The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet, giving a further...
A black hole has been imaged for the first time. The image was captured by a world-spanning network of radio telescopes that together create the Event Horizon Telescope. It zeroed in on the...
A U.S. judge dismissed the bulk of two lawsuits by LightSquared and equity owner Harbinger Capital Partners, reports Reuters. The suits accused Trimble, Garmin and Deere & Co. of misleading...
Photo: GSC/GSA Responsibility for in-depth troubleshooting and problem resolution of the GSC Ground Infrastructure has been transferred from a European GNSS Agency (GSA)-held European GNSS Service...
The new high-accuracy tactical-grade STIM318 inertial measurement unit (IMU) from Sensonor provides greatly increased accelerometer performance to support demanding guidance and navigation...
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...
To meet the challenges inherent in producing a low-cost, highly CPU-efficient software receiver, the multiple offset post-processing method leverages the unique features of software GNSS to greatly...
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...
Dime-sized INS with RTK paves the way for high accuracy in mass-market consumer applications. Photo: Inertial Sense Inertial Sense has released a new micro-sized inertial navigation system (INS)...
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...
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)...
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of GNSS signals for timing and navigation,...
By John Pottle and Neal Fedora John Pottle Precision matters. While “accuracy” is somewhat one-dimensional, “precision” is multi-faceted. We submit to you that whatever area of GNSS-based...
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of GNSS signals for timing and navigation,...
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the April 2019 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM GNSS receiver With embedded 9-DOF IMU Photo: Rokubun The Argonaut...
TEOCO, a provider of assurance, analytics and optimization solutions to communications service providers, has expanded the testing capabilities of its AIRCOM Device Test Lab in Columbia, Maryland,...