UAVs are finding places in the lives of many more people — farmers employing crop-spraying drones to counter a locus infestation in Pakistan, finding the way towards useful inspection tasks at an operating airport in the U.K., large airborne vehicles…
Image: Orolia Year-End Message from Orolia In 2019, military forces witnessed the global threat of GPS/GNSS interference grow, with more sophisticated threats and increasing military demand for assured operations in Navigation Warfare (NAVWAR) and GPS-denied environments. Enemy forces are deploying…
Yury Urlichich, First Deputy Director General, Roscosmos. (Photo: Roscosmos) By Yury Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of ROSCOMOS State Space Corporation Sergey Karutin, Designer General of GLONASS Nikolay Testoedov, Director General, Information Satellite Systems Roscosmos keeps concentrating on user needs…
Yang Changfeng, Chief Architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. (Photo: BeiDou) By Yang Changfeng Chief Architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System As one of the core Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) providers, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (“BDS”) has been developed steadily…
By Colonel John Claxton Chief, PNT Mission Integration, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Image: USAF The Global Positioning System has provided the citizens of the United States and the world the gold standard for positioning, navigation and timing…
Photo: ResponDrone Emergency response providers participating in a Design Thinking workshop organized by the ResponDrone Project have indicated that they would like to use drones to gather and distribute crucial information and provide communication networks in disaster areas. Preliminary results…
Screenshot: CBS News On CBS’ Sunday Morning show Dec. 1, correspondent David Pogue was invited into the Air Force’s GPS Master Control Station at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to show viewers what GPS is all about.…
What is or would be the best policy response from Congress and/or executive branch agencies to the growing threats to GPS from jamming and interference? Brad Parkinson “Homeland Security has declared GPS to be an essential system to virtually all…
Photo: Trimble Trimble has acquired Cansel Survey Equipment’s Can-Net and AllTerra New Zealand’s iBase networks. The acquisitions significantly increase the global footprint of Trimble-owned Virtual Reference Station (VRS) networks by adding key geographies in North America and New Zealand. Subscription-based…
