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Canada awards drone airspace management contract

September 18, 2017 - By

Public Services and Procurement Canada has awarded a contract to Ottawa-based Kongsberg Geospatial for an emergency operations airspace UAV tracking system. Kongsberg Geospatial, an Ottawa-based developer of geospatial software technology, was awarded the contract to produce an Emergency Operations Airspace Management System (EOAMS) for evaluation by Canadian government agencies for safely managing drones at emergency and disaster scenes. The contract... read more

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GPS World staff travels to industry’s largest trade shows

September 18, 2017 - By

In Portland, Oregon, and in Berlin, Germany, the two largest and most important international conferences on GPS, GNSS, PNT, survey, mapping and geodesy take place this year on exactly the same dates — just 5,177 miles apart. Now that’s bad timing. Our strategy is to divide our forces and send key personnel to interact with industry leaders at each gathering... read more

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GPS-lidar fusion with 3D city models

September 15, 2017 - By and

A GPS-lidar fusion technique implements a novel method for efficiently modeling lidar-based position error covariance based on features in the point cloud. The fusion uses a three-dimensional (3D) city model to detect and eliminate non-line-of-sight (NLOS) GPS satellites to improve global positioning. The technique has potential application in UAV missions such as 3D modeling, filming, surveying, search and rescue, and... read more

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Innovation: Low-cost single-frequency positioning approach

September 15, 2017 - By and

GPS + BDS RTK
A GNSS receiver that can supply raw pseudorange and carrier-phase measurements now costs only a few hundred dollars, and in this month’s column, a couple of researchers from Down Under pit a couple of these receivers up against a couple of survey-grade receivers. read more

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ION requests comment on GNSS SDR Metadata Standard

September 15, 2017 - By

The Institute of Navigation’s GNSS Software Defined Radio Metadata Standard working group is seeking public comment on the standard through Dec. 31. In recent years there has been a proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) data-collection systems and processing platforms designed for GNSS receiver applications or those that support GNSS bands. For post-processing, correctly interpreting the GNSS SDR sampled datasets produced... read more

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Boomerang system locates gunfire on the battlefield

September 15, 2017 - By

Surrounding sounds may not be a common way of determining location. But on the battlefield, warfighters need to know the direction of gunshots to enable a proper response. Weighing 12 ounces, the Boomerang Warrior-X by Raytheon BBN Technologies provides immediate hostile fire location awareness to individual soldiers and gives unit leaders shooter grid coordinates, according to the company. These situational awareness... read more

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How GPS was affected by the solar eclipse

September 15, 2017 - By

I had my special ISO-certified glasses ready. Living in Oregon, I wasn’t about to miss the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a total eclipse of the sun. On Aug. 21, my family drove a few miles north to get into the path of totality, which for us lasted about a minute. It was definitely worth the field trip. Besides regular folk... read more

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German Defense chooses Rockwell Collins NavHub system for GNSS

September 14, 2017 - By

The German Ministry of Defense selected Rockwell Collins’ NavHub navigation system to provide GNSS availability to a variety of its military vehicles. The NavHub system serves as a next-generation GNSS- and Military-code (M-code)-enabled solution for the German Armed Forces. Customizable for ground and maritime platforms, NavHub provides a variety of vehicle interfaces, meets the standards required by military vehicle operators,... read more

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