Guidance and precision control, the base elements of modern machine control for construction, have continued to evolve since broad productization began in the mid-1990s. However, the value proposition has become even sweeter since, with value being realized beyond the return…
Last year I was privileged to be part of a Blue-Ribbon Review Panel for an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) surveying publication. The book is Surveying and Geomatics Engineering: Principles, Technologies, and Applications. I recently received my copy of…
Editor-in-Chief Matteo Luccio met with two representatives from YellowScan to discuss its global market and a recent end-user success story out of Antarctica. GPS World
Luccio To paraphrase Galileo Galilei — the great Italian astronomer, philosopher, engineer, mathematician and physicist — positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) does not revolve around GPS. The European GNSS named after the father of modern science (as Albert Einstein called…
Thank you for registering for the upcoming webinar, “Solving PNT Cyber Threats in Critical Defense Infrastructure” sponsored by Oscilloquartz, an ADVA company. A link to the live event will be sent to you two hours before the event. Your personalized event…
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the October 2022 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM Software Aids GNSS/INS installation Photo: Septentrio The RxLeverArm software tool aids integration of GNSS receivers that include inertial navigation…
The realistic racetrack in the Assetto Corsa game. (Screenshot: Dronezone) News from OxTS The possible applications for 3D point clouds are almost endless. When you think of lidar, the mind naturally wanders to applications of the autonomous vehicle navigation or…
Early Open Services delivered by the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) are now live in Australia and New Zealand, improving location-based capabilities for the Australasia region. SouthPAN provides accurate, reliable and instant positioning services across all of Australia and New…
Photo: Wang Zhigang via https://mp.weixin.qq.com/. On Oct. 7, China launched a pair of satellites designed to enhance BeiDou navigation signals. The CentiSpace-1 S5 and S6 satellites were launched via a Long March 11 solid rocket that lifted off at 9:10…
