A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the April 2018 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM GNSS RTK Board For OEMs, system integrators The BX306Z GNSS real-time kinematic (RTK) board has powerful flexibility and…
By Yanming Feng and Charles Wang, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and Charles Karl, Australia Road Research Board, Australia / Presented at ION International Technical Meeting 2018 Connected vehicle safety and traffic applications depend on communication, position and velocity information…
Q: What key aspects should product designers consider when integrating inertial technology with GPS/GNSS? Jeremy Davis, Director, VectorNav Technologies A: The availability and quality of GPS in the application is critical. Industrial-grade MEMS IMUs can provide survey-grade performance when high-quality…
Orolia, a resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Talen-X. Talen-X is a U.S. technology innovator with the ability to characterize, enhance and implement advanced techniques and products to solve real-world GNSS…
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) announced the keynote speakers for AUVSI Xponential 2018, taking pace April 30-May 3 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. According to AUVSI, the experts will present keynotes devoted to themes critical…
China launched two more Beidou-3 satellites on Friday, the seventh and eighth of the third phase of the Beidou system. Launch via Long March 3B rocket took place at 01:56 Beijing time Friday (17:56 UTC Thursday) from the Xichang Satellite…
News from the European Space Agency Galileo’s initial services have been running for more than 15 months now, and signals from the satellites in space are routinely serving users all across the world. The functioning of Galileo is dependent on…
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and its NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) partners flew multiple unmanned aerial systems over a week-long testing period at the Nevada UAS Test Site at the Reno-Stead Airport. NASA UTM Testing. Credit: NIAS.…
At the GPS World Leadership Awards dinner, Charles Abraham, Andreas Warloe and Javier de Salas were named the winners of the Products Leadership Award for their work developing the first dual-frequency L1/L5 E1/E5 GNSS chip for smartphones, ushering in a…
