Becker Avionics Diversity Mode S Transponder with ADS-B certified. Avionics technology provider Becker Avionics has received certification for the company’s BXT6500 family Mode S transponder, designed for the rigorous flying environment characteristic of helicopter operations. Paired with a FreeFlight Systems’…
OriginGPS has chosen Gemalto’s Cinterion LTE-M wireless module to build its latest miniature OriginIoT system. Gemalto, a digital security company, designed the module for low-power applications requiring high security. OriginIoT systems are generic cellular internet of things (IoT) systems that…
New Capabilities Provide Support for Unstructured Data in the ArcGIS Platform Spatial analytics company Esri has acquired technology from ClearTerra, a company that offers geospatial and activity-based intelligence tools. The acquisition will provide ArcGIS platform users the ability to easily discover and extract…
u‑blox has rolled out the u-blox F9 technology platform, which was designed to deliver high-precision positioning solutions for mass market industrial and automotive applications. The platform combines multi-band GNSS technology with dead-reckoning, high-precision algorithms, and compatibility with a variety of…
Lidar and UAV technology has revealed hundreds of previously unknown Mayan ruins in the Guatemalan rainforest. The Optech Titan stripped away overlying vegetation to reveal extensive Mayan ruins in Guatemala’s rainforest. (Image:Teledyne Optech) In what is considered biggest aerial lidar survey…
Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, is an external attached payload on the International Space Station. (Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) A team of engineers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray…
TerraGo is now offering GXP InForm, a new add-on module for BAE Systems’ GXP Xplorer platform. The application, built using the TerraGo Magic platform and available today from BAE Systems, offers iOS, Android and web apps that make it easy…
The military is always looking at new techniques and technology for deriving position and, it seems, every few years signals of opportunity (SOOP) becomes fashionable again. In broad terms, SOOP refers to the use of any signals for navigation, which…
FleetUp Trace is a ruggedized tablet designed for fleet drivers required to display Records of Duty Status (RODS) upon request instead of printing out hard copies with the new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate. Tim provides thoughts on the product hardware,…
