Lidar USA has integrated Z+F scanners for mobile mapping into its product line. According to the company, the Z+F Profiler is a high-speed, 360-degree scanner that provides more than 1 million points per second at up to 200 profiles per second with a range of nearly 120 meters. This product is the latest addition to the company’s HiWay Mapper series.... read more
Photogrammetry software Correlator3D was used for a large-scale project by First Base Solutions, announced software developer SimActive Inc. The software allowed the processing of 50,000 large-format images at 200 megapixels, collected at a 10-centimeter resolution, on a single standard PC, the company added. The size on disk for each image was 765 MB, for a total of 40 terabytes of raw data.... read more
Services of the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) officially started on Nov. 1, according to a statement from Japan’s National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office. Government and industry hope the turn-on will generate new services worth nearly 5 trillion yen ($44.4 billion) by 2025 as players like SoftBank Group, Mitsubishi Electric and Hitachi plan applications in automated driving, farming and more.... read more
The entirety of West Antarctica contains enough ice that, if it were to melt, would cause oceans to rise 10 feet. While the West Antarctic ice sheet is at risk of collapse, GPS data suggests this crisis could be averted because the bedrock supporting it is rising. Using GPS, an international team of researchers found that the viscosity of the... read more
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has produced a map showing the damage caused by the Camp Fire in Northern California. After two and a half weeks of historic destruction, the fire is now 100 percent contained. Teams continue to search the destruction — including the destroyed town of Paradise — for... read more
By Senior Airman William Tracy, 50th Space Wing Public Affairs The 2nd Space Operations Squadron took formal command of Architecture Evolution Plan 7.5, the largest GPS architectural change in operational history, after its successful installation at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, Nov. 16. “AEP 7.5 is a milestone in GPS history and improves our cybersecurity capabilities and postures us to... read more
Unicore Communications’ Liyang Dao offers GPS World an overview of the company’s UB4B0M BDS/GPS/GLONASS/Galileo multi-system multi-frequency compact high precision board at Intergeo 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the company, the board features low-power consumption design and offers millimeter-level carrier phase observation value, as well as centimeter-level RTK positioning, supporting chip-level multi-path mitigation. read more
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