Sitelink 2.0. (Photo: Topcon) Topcon Positioning Group is offering a new edition of its real-time 3D job site monitoring and management system — Sitelink 2.0. The update includes a new pay-as-you-go point-based service model, new features to Sitelink Support Desk,…
Photo: CHC Navigation Shanghai-based GNSS technology and solutions company Shanghai Huace Navigation Technology Ltd. — known as CHC Navigation — has opened a North American subsidiary, CHC Navigation USA Corporation, in Scottsdale, Arizona. CHC Navigation was established in 2003 and…
Photo: Impossible Aerospace Auterion and Impossible Aerospace has announced their partnership and collaboration to bring to market the US-1 UAV, which has a two-hour flight time. Auterion is the provider of Auterion Enterprise PX4, an open-source-based, enterprise operating system for drones. Impossible Aerospace is Silicon…
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 Generation of Centimeter-Accurate Networks.” The Trimble CenterPoint RTX correction service, enabling centimeter-level…
A European region in 2015. (Image: OpenStreetMap) A tool developed by Mapbox explores “10 years of OpenStreetMap.” During that decade,hundreds of thousands of people mapped 25 million miles of roads in every country in the world. The internet tool uses…
By Urs Niesen, Jubin Jose, Xinzhou Wu, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Emerging automotive applications require reliable but at the same time low-cost positioning solutions. In this paper, we present such a solution by fusing the measurements from several consumer-grade sensors using…
AgJunction Inc. is partnering with Swift Navigation to develop near-autonomous small tractor solutions for agricultural applications with high accuracy. The Duro enclosure. (Photo: Swift Navigation) The partnership will combine autosteering technology pioneered by AgJunction and the Duro RTK GNSS receiver…
Guided projectiles can provide sailors with precision fires Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy on May 6 announced the completion of a new round of successful Excalibur N5 munition test firings at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Raytheon’s sea-based Excalibur…
The ZED-F9K module is designed to keep cars in their lanes. (Photo: u-blox) The new u‑blox ZED-F9K GNSS and dead-reckoning module is designed to bring continuous lane accurate positioning to challenging urban environments. The module offers both high-precision multi-band GNSS and inertial sensors.…
