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Hexagon Geospatial launches HxGN Smart Census

October 10, 2018 - By

Hexagon’s Geospatial division has launched its total population and housing census management and workflow solution, HxGN Smart Census. HxGN Smart Census makes each phase of the census process smarter and more manageable, the company said. HxGN Smart Census pricing is agile, taking into account a nation’s surface area, population, and Human Poverty Index to ensure that all countries can participate... read more

Defense takes center stage at 2018 GPS World Leadership Awards Ceremony

October 10, 2018 - By

An Air Force professor was honored for years of work exploring every PNT technology imaginable in conjunction with GPS; Rockwell Collins launched a new MicroSTRIKE multi-GNSS chip for military and professional applications, available globally on a non-ITAR basis; and Spirent Federal previewed its SimMNSA, a new M-code simulation option delivering to authorized customers by the end of the year. John Raquet,... read more

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October 10, 2018 - By

Thank you for registering for the upcoming webinar, “Development Trends and Challenges for UAV Inspection Applications,” brought to you by Septentrio. A link to the live event will be sent to you two hours before the event. Your personalized event URL will be automatically generated by the ON24 system. To ensure receipt of the email, please whitelist this email address by adding it... read more

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Swift Navigation Starling GNSS engine tested with Broadcom BCM47755 chip

October 10, 2018 - By

Swift Navigation has announced that its Starling positioning engine is available with Broadcom’s dual-frequency GNSS receiver chip, the BCM47755. The new solution is capable of delivering centimeter accuracy with minimal power consumption and small footprint for rapidly expanding precise positioning applications, the company said. The Starling Positioning Engine is a modular and portable GNSS high-precision positioning engine that leverages Swift’s... read more

Research Online: A way to monitor LTE signals for autonomous vehicles

October 9, 2018 - By

Integrity Monitoring of LTE Signals of Opportunity-Based Navigation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles By Mahdi Maaref, Joe Khalife and Zak M. Kassas/University of California, Riverside Proprietary receivers and navigation frameworks for autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) navigation with long-term evolution (LTE) cellular signals demonstrate meter-level accuracy with standalone LTE signals and lane-level accuracy with LTE signals coupled with other sensors (inertial and... read more

How we might navigate on Mars

October 9, 2018 - By

Researchers from NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL) and Intel are proposing a way to navigate on a new planet using artificial intelligence (AI). The researchers presented their planetary navigation research during an Intel event on Aug. 16. The immense challenge of building GPS-similar constellations around every planet or moon could be avoided by using imagery, according to researchers Andrew Chung,... read more

Once again, we honor leadership at the 2018 GPS World Awards Ceremony

October 9, 2018 - By

At the GPS World Leadership Dinner and Awards Ceremony in Miami on Sept. 27, 120 VIPs from the international GNSS/PNT community gathered to honor recent significant achievements in four fields: Satellites, Signals, Services and Products. The honorees, so voted by a panel of their peers, appear below. Also, see our article here. Their remarks upon receiving the awards will appear... read more

Leaders recognized at 2018 GPS World Awards Dinner

October 9, 2018 - By

Four innovators in the fields of satellites, signals, services and products accepted Leadership Awards for 2018 from this magazine at the GPS World Leadership Awards Ceremony and Dinner on Sept. 27 in Miami. Their remarks at the podium directed the audience of PNT industry and research community VIPs to key challenges for the future. Satellites Kicking off the ceremony, Phil... read more