Image: GSA The new GSA GNSS Market Report is now available for download. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the GNSS market and the global industry, as well as a focus on EGNSS...
Spirent Communications has announced major enhancements that will help improve location accuracy for E911 calls indoors. The additional test capabilities on Spirent’s 8100 Location Technology...
DigPilot, a Norwegian supplier of surveying equipment and instruments for building and construction, has developed a flexible 3D machine guidance system based on Septentrio’s AsteRx2eH OEM GNSS...
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...
Testing the Feasibility of Positioning Using Ambient Light By Jingbin Liu, Ruizhi Chen, Yuwei Chen, Jian Tang, and Juha Hyyppä INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT....
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...
Calling it an “unprecedented and deeply worrying total disruption . . . [that] shook the industry,” Locata Corporation reiterated its call for redundant terrestrial systems to back up GNSS in the...
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...
Septentrio’s GNSS devices are being used for high-accuracy positioning solutions by two companies. Compact multi-frequency GPS/GNSS receiver module provides robust centimeter-level...
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...
New OEM boards provide next-generation ASIC technology Phantom 40. (Photo: Hemisphere GNSS) Hemisphere GNSS has released its next-generation digital and RF ASIC (application-specific integrated...
From left: 2019 QEPrize winners Richard Schwartz, Bradford Parkinson, James Spilker and Hugo Fruehauf. (Photo: QEPrize) The United Kingdom’s 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has...
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...
By Markus Brandl, Xiaoming Chen, Herbert Landau, Carlos Rodriguez-Solano and Ulrich Weinbach This article updates a July 2012 feature in GPS World , “Real-Time Extended GNSS Positioning: A New...
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...
News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. The first navigation signal transmission from the fifth Galileo satellite, one of two Full Operational Capability satellites launched into wrong orbits on August...
A panorama from the GNSS tide gauge at Onsala Space Observatory. When satellites pass over the sky, the GNSS tide gauge uses signals direct from the satellite and signals reflected off the sea...
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the March 2019 issue of GPS World magazine. MEMS INS/GPS Update improves heading performance and reduces jitter Photo:...
Image: iStock.com/metamorworks via Bentley Systems Nestwave has developed an ultra-low power, advanced GNSS solution for use in internet of things (IoT) applications. Nestwave, a Paris-based...
Photo: Trimble Trimble has introduced the Trimble AX940 and AX940i high-precision GNSS smart antennas, designed for a broad range of high-precision applications such as precision agriculture,...