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YellowScan to host Lidar for Drone 2022

Image: Yellowscan YellowScan will host its fourth conference for drone users June 13-14, 2022, at Domaine de Verchant, Montpellier, in the south of France. Attendees at Lidar for Drone 2022 will be able to meet and link up with YellowScan customers,…
GPS backup funding continues Trump’s admire-the-problem approach

Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation The appropriation for fiscal year 2022 enacted this month included $ 15M for “Position navigation and timing [PNT] technologies and global positioning system [GPS] backup” in the Department of Transportation (DOT) budget. At first…

This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating Googlers who contribute to products and features that people rely on each day. Last week we heard from women working on our crisis hotlines and Street View. Today, we hear from three more Googlers…

In a world that’s constantly changing, it’s important for Google Maps to give you the freshest, most up-to-date information possible — so you can know whether the restaurant down the street from you reopened or if your neighborhood grocery store…
Portal for NAVIGATION journal goes live

The open access portal for NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation is now live at live at navi.ion.org. “ION has partnered with HighWire Press to host its new open access portal for NAVIGATION giving readers a sophisticated platform that offers…
FCC, FAA and 5G

Last month we attempted to provide an overview of the issue concerning Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) licensing of C-Band radio spectrum, the subsequent fielding of wireless service for 5G phones and the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) announcements that potential interference…

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) is set to re-embark on its three-week trans-Atlantic journey in April 2022 equipped with two of Silicon Sensing’s AMU30 inertial measurement units (IMUs). These devices send highly precise motion data to the new ‘AI captain’ that…
Registration open for JNC 2022

Registration for the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Joint Navigation Conference (JNC) 2022 is open and the technical conference program is now available online. The JNC, sponsored by the Military Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION), will be held June…