While at the GPS World Leadership Awards dinner, Patricia Doherty, director and senior scientist for the Institute for Scientific Research at Boston College, accepts the Services Leadership Award for her work initiating and leading the African GNSS Outreach program since 2009. The program helps developing countries derive social and economic benefits from satellite-based PNT. Introduction speech by Frank van Diggelen... read more
Elevation variance maps are now available within the Sentera AgVault platform, offering agronomists, crop consultants and growers additional field insights. Topography and elevation data helps agriculture professionals increase operating efficiencies when building variable rate prescriptions, creating drainage or land-leveling plans, and designing subsurface drainage. Elevation maps are ordered within AgVault and are delivered as both a color-mapped topographic map image and... read more
Raven Industries has given South Dakota State University (SDSU) $5 million to establish a precision agriculture facility within the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences on its main campus in Brookings, South Dakota. SDSU is the first U.S. land-grant university in the country to offer both a four-year degree and a minor in precision agriculture. The facility will be the... read more
Trimble has acquired privately-held e-Builder, a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based construction program management solution for capital program owners and program management firms. e-Builder extends Trimble’s ability to accelerate industry transformation by providing an integrated project delivery solution for owners, program managers and contractors across the design, construct and operate lifecycle, the company said. e-Builder manages more than $300 billion of construction project... read more
Komatsu plans to introduce NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to its SmartConstrution jobsites. The GPUs will communicate with drones from Skycatch, a Komatsu partner, which will collect 3D images, generate terrain data and “visualize” site conditions. Komatsu is deploying the artifical intelligence (AI) project as an extension of its SmartConstruction initiative in Japan; the drone-assisted, automated equipment service was launched... read more
Fractus Antennas has launched a mobile antenna that enables coverage at 3G, 4G and 5G — the TRIO mXTEND chip antenna component. The TRIO mXTEND has been specifically designed to provide flexibility to operate any required frequency band inside any wireless device. It is capable of operating the main mobile communication standards, enabling worldwide coverage, as well as GNSS such... read more
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