Hexagon | Novatel keeping rows straight despite the weather

Farmers rely on their GNSS receivers to keep their machines on track, their maps accurate, and their rows straight in demanding environments. GNSS receivers on agricultural equipment need to continue to perform at a high level when faced with extreme…
ION ITM/PTTI 2022 virtual meeting portal now live

The ION ITM/PTTI 2022 virtual meeting portal is now available at ion.org. Register today to attend the ION’s co-located International Technical Meeting (ITM) and the Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications Meeting, being held January 25–27, 2022,…
Launchpad: Timing antennas, defense UAS, infrastructure mapping

A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the January 2022 issue of GPS World magazine. Surveying Base Station Receives all available GNSS signals Photo: Trimble The Trimble R750 GNSS modular receiver is a connected base…
RINEX 4.00 format now available

The RINEX Working Group of the International GNSS Service (IGS) is now available on the IGS website. RINEX 4.00 (2021) is a major revision of the format document to modernize the navigation message files to be able to accommodate the…
Seen & Heard: Russia threatens GPS, protecting sea turtles

“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Photo: lindsay_imagery/E+/Getty Images Where Sea Turtles Nest Florida’s Sea Turtle Grants Program — funded with proceeds from…
Directions 2022: BDS enters new era of global services

Yang Changfeng is BeiDou’s Chief Architect. (Photo: BeiDou Navigation Satellite System) Construction of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) has been completed. The system was formally commissioned on July 31, 2020. In 2021, BDS continued to improve performance, expand applications…
NBT’s Prometheus employs Nordic’s nRF9160 SiP for IoT and GNSS

Photo: Next Big Thing German venture studio Next Big Thing AG (NBT) has launched the Prometheus internet of things (IoT) sensor-based development platform designed to simplify prototyping and speed time-to-market for developers of cellular IoT- and cloud-based solutions. The Prometheus…
U.S. Army selects TRX Systems to provide DAPS PNT system

The TRX DAPS solution will allow warfighters to better target, move and communicate in operational environments where GPS is degraded or denied. TRX DAPS Dismounted A-PNT device. (Photo: TRX Systems) TRX Systems, developer of NEON GPS-denied location solutions, has been…