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AT&T Ready For Hurricane Season as Part of Disaster Recovery Program

June 2, 2014 - By

AT&T’s Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) program, as the first private company certified by the Department of Homeland Security for private-company voluntary disaster preparedness, is committed to maintaining and restoring the AT&T global network when natural disasters strike, the company said. Despite predictions, no one is certain when the next tropical storm or hurricane will ravage the coastline. With $600 million... read more

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Lehmann Aviation Tests LA300 Drone with Cameras

June 2, 2014 - By

In 2013, Lehmann Aviation launched the LA300 — a fully automatic personal drone working with Nokia Lumia 1020 and Windows 8 Tablet and designed for mapping and DEM. Flight tests in May have proven compatibility of the GoPro Hero3+ camera, in addition to Nokia Lumia 1020 41-Mp camera, with the LA300 for orthomosaics and digital elevation models (DEM), which makes... read more

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Fanbeam Laser Radar Delivers Dynamic Positioning to Offshore Vessels

June 2, 2014 - By

The new Fanbeam laser radar sensor from Renishaw’s spatial measurement division provides repetitive, high-accuracy dynamic positioning (DP) to offshore support vessels (OSV) and other marine structures. This next-generation system adds greater performance and stability through new control software that increases reliability of its single-target tracking capability, and allows multiple operator stations for situations where control needs to be transferred between... read more

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Russia Turns off Data from IGS GPS Tracking Stations

June 2, 2014 - By

As announced by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on May 13, 2014, GPS tracking stations co-sponsored by U.S. interests have stopped making their data available to scientists and others. The tap on the flow of data from 11 stations was turned off starting on May 31. The data flow included hourly and daily data files from the stations as... read more

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The Business — June 2014

June 1, 2014 - By

The Business section from the June 2014 issue. Download the PDF here. Includes: NovAtel Launches OEM617D, FlexPak-S SAASM Enclosure; Applanix, American Aerospace Partner on Mapping for UAVs; VectorNav Launches Dual-Antenna GPS-Aided Inertial Nav System; Sparton Offers GPS-Assisted Inertial Navigation System; Leica Geosystems Offers CC55 Controller; DeCarta Search Engine Expands to 120 Countries; Events; Briefs read more

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The System: Sixth GPS IIF Launched into Orbit

June 1, 2014 - By

A sixth GPS IIF satellite was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 8:08 p.m. EDT May 16. The satellite, designated GPS IIF-6 and built by Boeing, is one of the next-generation GPS satellites, incorporating improvements to provide greater accuracy, increased signals, and enhanced performance for users. According to Boeing, each GPS IIF satellite... read more

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Letters to the Editor: Of Services, Commercial and Non

June 1, 2014 - By

In a comment posted to GPS World’s website on Tony Murfin’s recent column, “Hexagon’s Acquisition of Veripos: Why Did This Go Down?”, Craig Roberts of Australia wrote: Tony, I do take issue with the suggestion that the International GNSS Service (IGS) is somehow inferior and not reliable. I understand that Veripos is a commercial service designed for specific markets, but... read more

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Innovation: The European Way

June 1, 2014 - By

Performance of the Galileo Single-Frequency Ionospheric Correction During In-Orbit Validation
In this month’s column, a team of researchers from ESTEC describe the European way for modeling the ionosphere for single-frequency users and compare its performance to the current GPS approach. read more

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