ViaLiteHD Blue OEM module, one of the available formats for the GPS RF over fiber link. (Photo: ViaLink) Carrying timing signals over optical fiber links to 10+ km, ViaLite’s new GNSS/GPS Fiber...
QuickBird satellite image of Kalutara Beach on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka showing the receding waters and beach damage from the Sumatra tsunami.( Credit: Digital Globe) How Ionospheric...
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...
TAU-0707 series GNSS module. (Photo: Allystar) Allystar Technology Co. Ltd. has launched its smallest multi-band multi-GNSS module, the TAU-0707. Within its 7.6 x 7.6 millimeter size, the TAU-0707...
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...
Multi-frequency, multi-GNSS RF simulator now has greater performance and flexibility Spirent Communications plc has launched its enhanced GSS9000 Series GNSS constellation simulator. Providing...
Photo: peeterv/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Ambiguity and Environmental Data: Two Further Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, and Ziyi...
Averna celebrated its 20th anniversary Sept. 20 as a test and quality solutions provider. Founded in 1999 by a team of three in Montreal, Quebec, Averna has grown to 400+ employees with 10 offices...
Averna, a developer of test solutions and services for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, has acquired U.S.-based Cal-Bay Systems, a privately owned provider of test systems,...
Authors Javier Benedicto (ESA), left, and Rodrigo da Costa (GSA). (Image: ESA) Throughout 2020, the Galileo Programme under the responsibility of the European Commission, the European GNSS Agency...
Spirent’s GSS9000 constellation simulator. Spirent Federal Systems, a U.S. provider of positioning, navigation and timing test solutions to the government and its contractors,...
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...
Maxtena Inc. has introduced a patented GNSS antenna designed for high-precision and autonomous multi-frequency applications. The M7HCT-A-SMA antenna is a high-accuracy, multi-frequency active...
Image: Spire Spire Global, a space-to-cloud analytics company, is now using Galileo to offer GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) products for the weather community. Radio occultation is the process of...
Improving Single-Frequency RTK in the Urban Enviornment By Mojtaba Bahrami and Marek Ziebart A look at how Doppler measurements can be used to smooth noisy code-based pseudoranges to improve the...
Rockwell Collins has successfully received and tracked a Galileo satellite signal using a prototype GNSS receiver designed for secure military use. In 2013, Rockwell Collins received a $2 million...
VBOX Touch datalogger. (Photo: Racelogic) The VBOX Touch from Racelogic is the first in a new generation of highly flexible, enhanced accuracy GNSS dataloggers. The powerful hardware can be used in...
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...
One of two Galileo satellites, safely in its protective container, is unloaded from an Air France Boeing 747 at Cayenne–Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana. News from the European Space Agency...
Chip-scale atomic clock. How a Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Can Help Mitigate Broadband Interference Small low-power atomic clocks can enhance the performance of GPS receivers in a number of ways,...