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Cobham launches next-generation GPS anti-jam system at Paris Air Show

June 19, 2017 - By

Cobham Antenna Systems has launched its next-generation anti-jam GPS system. The system provides significant immunity to jamming compared with a conventional GPS antenna, allowing the platform to operate over 100 times closer to the jammer whilst maintaining its GPS reception, the company said. The system will be available to view on Cobham’s stand, hall 2b, stand E156, at the International Paris... read more

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Research Online: Tight integration algorithms designed for cars

June 17, 2017 - By

By Gianluca Falco, Gianluca Marucco, Mario Nicola and Marco Pini, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) / Presented at ION ITM, January 2017 The authors of this paper deal with the development of a Robust Position Unit (RPU) based on the real-time implementation of an advanced positioning algorithm. The RPU uses a tightly coupled technique between a mass-market single-frequency GNSS chipset... read more

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Galileo satellite team wins European Inventor Award

June 16, 2017 - By

The invisible signals that Europe’s Galileo satellites are beaming down to the world are officially award-winning: the team behind their design has won the European Inventor Award, run by the European Patent Office, reports the European Space Agency. The 12th European Inventor Award (Research) was given at a special ceremony on 15 June at the Arsenale di Venezia in Venice,... read more

Leica Geosystems offers complete imaging solution

June 16, 2017 - By

Leica Geosystems’ BLK360 is a miniaturized black 3D imaging laser scanner. The BLK360 captures the world with full-color panoramic images overlaid on a high-accuracy point cloud. The one-button Leica BLK360 is easy to use, Leica said. Anyone who can operate an iPad can now capture the world around them with high-resolution 3D panoramic images. The Leica BLK360 imaging laser scanner... read more

New Spectra Precision GNSS receiver gives surveyors flexibility

June 15, 2017 - By

Spectra Precision has introduced its new SP90m multi-frequency and multi-application GNSS receiver. The Spectra Precision SP90m is a powerful, highly versatile, ultra-rugged and reliable GNSS positioning solution for a wide variety of real-time and post-processing applications. It features integrated communications options such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UHF radio and cellular modem as well as two MSS L-band channels to receive Trimble RTX correction... read more

Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360, cloud services offered for digital reality-capture market

June 15, 2017 - By

Hexagon announced today its new Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360 laser scanning software for simpler, automated registration, and its Cyclone Cloud Services platform for secure global collaboration through an on-demand software-as-a-service model. Together, the new products offer users smarter ways to register, visualize and collaborate around digital reality projects, delivering solutions into the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), plant, survey and... read more

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Project to advance multi-GNSS development uses Spirent test systems

June 15, 2017 - By

Spirent Communications’ testing systems are being used by the European Union TREASURE project (Training, REsearch and Applications network to Support the Ultimate Real-time high-accuracy EGNSS). The aim of the four-year project is to provide instantaneous and high-accuracy positioning anywhere in the world, exploiting different satellite systems operating together to provide users with positional accuracy of a few centimeters. By 2020... read more

Sprint certifies Telit module for its LTE Cat 1 network

June 15, 2017 - By

Sprint has announced that Telit is to start commercial deliveries of its LE910C1-NSLTE Cat 1 module upon conclusion of Sprint certification, expected this month. The product is an embedded industrial Internet of Things (IoT) LTE module delivering up to 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds. Because of pin-to-pin compatibility with both CDMA and EV-DO versions of Sprint certified xE910 modules,... read more

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