Photo: Swift Navigation Swift Navigation and Calian, formerly Tallysman, have partnered to integrate precise positioning into location-based products across a variety of industries. Autonomous vehicles and robots are complex and costly to build. Developers must integrate advanced hardware and software,…
Photo: SonjaBK / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images In my last newsletter, I highlighted the release of a beta version of a new NOAA CORS Network (NCN) Station Web Page. As demonstrated in my newsletter, each CORS…
“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. Songs for the Cows Photo: SWNS Media Group Farmers are controlling cows with a GNSS-based tracking system…
Photo: GEODNET The Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) Foundation — the organization governing the blockchain-based global navigation network GEODNET — has entered new distribution and OEM agreements with AllyNav, Bad Elf, bynav, Sensori Robotics and Unmanned Life. GEODNET’s blockchain-based global…
GPS vulnerabilities have been widely reported in the press. What steps have been taken to back up GPS use in U.S. critical infrastructure? Jules McNeff “President Biden on April 30 issued a National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and…
Photo: Inertial Labs Inertial Labs has launched the INS-FI, a GPS-aided inertial navigation system (INS) designed to improve performance and reliability for land, marine and aerial applications. INS-FI is built with tactical-grade fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) technology and an IP67…
Photo: Point One Navigation Point One Navigation has released a new Tags feature for its precise positioning Polaris network. The Tagging feature aims to simplify building and using positioning networks and systems for a wide range of applications including surveying,…
The solar storm in May that produced a beautiful aurora borealis as far south as Mallorca, Spain, also stopped GNSS-based precision agriculture for a couple of days. The same month, articles in major U.S. newspapers detailed aspects of a growing…
Photo: Geomax GeoMax Positioning has unveiled the Zenith60 Pro GNSS smart antenna, designed for surveyors and construction professionals. It is a real-time kinematics (RTK) rover that features calibrated free tilt compensation to measure otherwise inaccessible points. The antenna is suited…
