January 2016 - GPS World

Intel to acquire German drone company Ascending Technologies

January 18, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ascending Technologies, a drone company located in Krailing, Germany, that produces drone auto-pilot software and algorithms. Intel has already partnered to combine Ascending Technologies’ sense-and-avoid algorithms with Intel RealSense technology’s real-time depth-sensing capability. These technologies can improve drone safety, helping them avoid obstacles and collisions. With Ascending Technologies, Intel gains expertise and technology to... read more

This article is tagged with drones, Intel, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles and posted in Latest News, UAV/UGV

US government says it will invest $4B in self-driving cars

January 18, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

In his final State of the Union address, delivered Jan. 12, President Obama signaled his intent to invest in a 21st century transportation system. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has revealed part of the president’s proposal: a 10-year, nearly $4 billion investment to accelerate the development and adoption of safe vehicle automation through real-world pilot projects. Secretary Foxx also announced that... read more

This article is tagged with autonomous cars, Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, President Obama, V2V and posted in Latest News, OEM, Transportation

GPS World Europe editor chairs session at Munich Summit

January 15, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

GPS World Europe Editor Tim Reynolds chairs the session GNSS and Sciences for Life at the Munich Navigation Satellite Summit, which will be held March 1-3. Early registration ends on Sunday, Jan. 17. Reynolds is director of Inta Communication Ltd. and a long-term Brussels observer writing on many aspects of European government policy and implementation for a range of clients and publications.... read more

This article is tagged with fitness, healthcare, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, precision agriculture, search and rescue, Tim Reynolds and posted in Latest News

Garmin acquires lidar company PulsedLight

January 14, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

Garmin International has acquired PulsedLight Inc., a privately held designer of optical distance measurement technology in Bend, Oregon. PulsedLight makes sensor boards that are highly accurate, small and lightweight. PulsedLight developed and owns the intellectual property that enables this technology, Garmin stated in a news release. PulsedLight is the maker of the LIDAR-Lite, an optical distance measurement sensor for automotive blind-spot... read more

This article is tagged with Garmin, lidar and posted in Latest News, Mapping, Survey

Combat jamming with adaptive notch filtering or wavelet mitigation: a comparison

January 14, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

Wavelet Packet Decomposition (WPD) shows promise as an anti-jamming tool. The WPD is derived from the wavelet transform, which provides a representation of the signal components in a domain spanned by a set of functions that can be seen as band-pass filters with a bandwidth decreasing as their central frequency increases, thus granting a uniform resolution in the decomposition of... read more

This article is tagged with anti-jamming, GPS interference, jamming, mitigation and posted in From the Magazine, Latest News, OEM

HarvestMaster releases field applicator for improved efficiency

January 14, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

HarvestMaster, provider of agricultural data collection solutions, has introduced a new field applicator that applies various treatments to specific field plots. The field applicator is easily controlled from within HarvestMaster’s Mirus field data-collection software using a software plugin. Using the Mirus field applicator plugin, users can select which treatments to apply to individual plots from within the Mirus dashboard, and... read more

This article is tagged with data collection, Juniper Systems, precision agriculture and posted in Latest News, Machine Control/Ag

Juniper Systems launches Windows 10 rugged tablet

January 14, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

Windows 10 and a new large display are key features of Juniper Systems’ latest tablet, Mesa 2 Rugged Tablet, released today. Juniper Systems is a provider of ultra-rugged field data collection solutions. Featuring the largest display produced by Juniper Systems to date, the Mesa 2 is also Juniper Systems’ first handheld to run on the new Windows 10, which the... read more

This article is tagged with data collection, Juniper Systems, rugged tablet, surveying and posted in Latest News, Mapping, Product Showcase, Survey

Innovation: Guidance for road and track

January 14, 2016 - By GPS World Staff

Real-time single-frequency precise point positioning for cars and trains
In this month’s Innovation column, we bring together, perhaps for the first time, single-frequency and real-time PPP. Our authors describe a series of experiments they have conducted on roadways and a railway achieving sub-meter horizontal positioning at a 95 percent confidence interval. Such accuracies may already be sufficient for freeway lane and railway track guidance. But we might expect even better accuracies in the future. After all, PPP is getting better all the time. read more

This article is tagged with Innovation, PPP, precise point positioning, rail navigation and posted in Innovation, Transportation