U.S. Coast Guard issues testing notice on GPS Week Number Rollover. The GPS Directorate has released a Federal Register Notice announcing plans to execute a test in February to investigate legacy receiver week roll-over behavior and analyze any off-nominal behavior…
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has awarded $ 46,301,702 in grant funding for 11 projects in 10 states to assist with deploying positive train control (PTC) systems. This marks the second selection of PTC systems deployment projects under the Fiscal…
Sokkia introduces the latest addition to its GNSS integrated receiver line — the GRX3 is designed to provide a smaller, lighter and fully integrated GNSS solution. Photo: Sokkia “The multi-constellation GRX3 receiver is built to offer a complete and versatile…
News from the European GNSS Agency The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is organizing a public consultation on the Integrity & Reliability of Digital Maps for Connected and Automated Driving, in connection with the recently published Commission Communication on Connected and…
Guest column by Peter Fairhurst, Director, Product Line Management, Product Center Positioning, u-blox Peter Fairhurst, Director, Product Line Management, Product Center Positioning, u-blox. (Photo: u-blox) A new generation of GNSS hardware and pioneering new correction data services are enabling cheaper,…
By Alexander Rügamer, Daniel Rubino, Xabier Zubizarreta, Wolfgang Felber, Fraunhofer IIS, and Jan Wendel and Daniel Pfaffelhuber, Airbus Defense and Space GmbH This work presents a new secure localization method that can be used for UAVs to obtain a new…
Orthometric height support (survey-grade elevations) enables Arrow GNSS receivers to collect high-accuracy, survey-grade vertical data with any data-collection software. Eos Positioning Systems Inc. has announced support for GEOID height models within its Arrow Series GNSS receivers. Eos manufactures high-accuracy GNSS…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the January 2019 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM RF front-end Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) FOR GNSS NT1066 is a four-channel RF front-end ASIC (three wideband IQ and one…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket orbited the first GPS III satellite on Dec. 23, 2018. (Photo: SpaceX) After several launch delays, the first GPS III satellite successfully deployed from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, rising from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 23. By Jan.…
