GPS III prime contractor Lockheed Martin has heard from six companies concerning alternate designs for the GPS III satellite payload, according to reports. A company spokesperson said “constantly canvassing the industrial base to see what’s out there” is merely part of Lockheed’s standard business practice. Lockheed Martin partner Exelis Geospatial Systems currently supplies the payload, as it has for all... read more
Galileo Countdown to 10 by Year’s End Signs Point Toward Early Services in December, If ESA Delivers A February conference on the European Union’s space policy in Brussels sought to set a course for 2020 and close official ranks behind the prospect of early Galileo services at the end of this year. Much in the business community’s perception of the... read more
The Business section from the April 2014 issue (Download the PDF). Includes: ESNC 2014: Are You Master of the Galileo Universe?; Septentrio, Imec Design High-Precision Galileo Antenna; Veripos Upgrades Reference Stations with Septentrio Multi-GNSS Receivers; Navman Wireless Debuts Fleet Telematics Portal; Have Galileo Position Fix? ESA Is Offering Prizes; Topcon Offers DS-200 Upgrade, Haul Truck System, Enterprise Solutions; Hemisphere’s Vector Adds GLONASS Functionality; TomTom Integrates Indoor Mapping with Micello; Briefs; Events read more
This April marks the one year anniversary of the transition of the USGS’s The National Map Corps (TNMCorps) from a small regional pilot project in the heart of Denver, Colorado, into a successful nationwide project. During the past year, civilian volunteers in every state have increasingly provided accurate mapping data to the National Geospatial Program’s publicly available application called The... read more
Not so long ago, we occasionally speculated on the order of GNSS preference for both manufacturers and end users. GPS first, of course. Only the most radical of future visions saw anything different. But after that? GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou — or switch them around? A case could be made for almost any sequence, by virtue of active constellation size or... read more
The latest addition to Galileo’s worldwide ground infrastructure has been made in the mid-Atlantic, on Portugal’s Santa Maria island in the Azores. This new Galileo Sensor Station joins a far-flung network of stations monitoring signal quality, clock timings and positioning of the Galileo satellites orbiting Earth. Its formal opening ceremony on March 26 was presided over by the Azores’ Regional... read more
Trimble has announced the latest version of its eCognition software for geospatial data analysis. Trimble eCognition software is a powerful solution for the analysis and extraction of information from geospatial data collected via aerial, satellite and mobile mapping platforms, the company said. The new version 9.0 release simplifies and reduces the time taken to classify objects in imagery data sets... read more
Autodesk has announced the Autodesk 2015 software portfolio of design, engineering, and construction solutions to help drive a global transformation to Building Information Modeling (BIM). The 2015 Suites for buildings, civil infrastructure, and oil & gas projects offer hundreds of improvements and new capabilities for Autodesk Building Design Suite, Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite and Autodesk Plant Design Suite. In addition... read more
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