Belgium has launched its first smart highway test environment. Septentrio GPS/GNSS receivers are integrated into vehicles and infrastructure to provide dependable, high-accuracy positioning and to...
Using GPS Multipath for Snow-Depth Estimation By Felipe G. Nievinski and Kristine M. Larson INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley FRINGES. No, I’m not talking about the latest celebrity...
Plus an update on GPS III satellites in production Editor Alan Cameron talked with Johnathon Caldwell, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of navigation systems. Tell us about the on-orbit performance...
Spirent Communications today introduced the GSS6300M range of multi-channel GPS and multi-GNSS simulators for receiver integrators, application developers, aftercare and production testing...
The U.S. Air Force’s second new GPS III satellite, bringing higher-power, more accurate and harder-to-jam signals to the GPS constellation, has arrived in Florida for launch. On March 18, Lockheed...
Oxford Technical Solutions’ xOEMcore. Photo: Oxford Technical Solutions The xOEMcore, now being offered by Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS), is an inertial navigation system that can also...
News via the CANSPACE Listserv The EUMETSAT Polar System is considering providing GNSS navigation bit data, should there be sufficient interest in the user community. “In the framework of...
Testing the antenna performance of GNSS signals such as GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo and Metropolitan Beacon Systems (MBS) is key to location accuracy performance of a mobile device. To address the...
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...
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...
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,...
Coalition gives voice to PNT companies seeking open-market approach to backing up GPS/GNSS for critical infrastructure Several GNSS and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) companies have joined...
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)...
NovAtel’s FlexPak6D enclosed GNSS receiver. NovAtel Inc. has announced the FlexPak6D enclosed GNSS receiver, a flexible dual-antenna solution for application developers seeking a...
Septentrio’s mosaic chip-level GNSS. (Photo: Septentrio) Septentrio’s mosaic development kit is now available for testing and integration. Mosaic is Septentrio’s most compact,...
By Frank van Diggelen, Global Locate, Inc. This update to a frequently requested article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy...
BeiDou Signals, Future Receiver Design Highlighted at Stanford PNT Symposium By James D. Litton and Tom Langenstein James L. Litton The Stanford Center for Position, Navigation and Time conducted...
Updated GSS9000 Series takes a bow, joining range of test solutions on show The Enhanced GSS9000 Series GNSS constellation simulator. (Photo: Tyler Gunter) Spirent Communications will unveil its...
Spirent Federal Systems, a provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, announced that Col. (retired) Bernard Gruber, former program director of what is now the U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate, has joined the...