Trimble’s Elmar Lenz discusses Trimble’s family of BD OEM receiver boards, which includes the BD940-INS, BD992-INS and BD990. Get the inside scoop on the boards, which were showcased during Intergeo 2017 in Berlin, Germany. read more
How Well Does It Perform?We examine the performance of EGNOS in Finland, which lies near the northeast periphery of the coverage area, and how this performance can be improved now and in the future. read more
It’s been a couple of months since we ran an update on unmanned aircraft, so there are lots of news items to dust off and maybe look at more closely. I suppose we’ve all seen those futuristic movies with masses of orderly air traffic traveling rapidly down invisible roads hundreds of feet above cities — maybe the Jetsons first got... read more
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is conducting an investigation into the collision between a drone and a passenger aircraft that took place on approach to the Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City on Oct. 12. On that day, a Beech King Air A100 operated by Skyjet M. G. was on an instrument flight rules flight from the... read more
Javad GNSS’ Javad Ashjaee offers a rundown on the company’s Triumph-F1 unmanned aerial vehicle at Intergeo 2017, which took place Sept. 26-28 in Berlin, Germany. According to the company, the Triumph-F1 is a field-tested high-precision geodetic GNSS receiver that includes four battery compartments, four angled documentation cameras and more. read more
Harxon Corporation’s Mia Jin discusses the company’s HX-CHX600A UAV antenna, which the company presented at Intergeo 2017 in Berlin, Germany. read more
As a U.S. military system, GPS provides all the PNT capabilities they need for defense — until it doesn’t. Though the accuracies are great and the encrypted signal is resistant to spoofing, its weak signal is very susceptible to jamming. GPS World will host a webinar Nov. 16 to examine ways to augment GPS/GNSS to add resiliency so critical military... read more
Commercial drone-maker Delair has introduced a professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping. The UX11 is a small fixed-wing UAV that combines a powerful integrated onboard system, industry-grade sensors, limitless communication range and PPK centimeter-level positioning. It carries enough onboard computing power to access and process the pictures, then sends them to the operator in real-time. According to the... read more
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