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John Raquet receives 2018 Services Leadership Award

November 16, 2018 - By and

During the GPS World Leadership Awards dinner, Spirent Federal’s Justin Eldredge presented John Raquet, professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, with the Services Award. read more

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2018 Products Leadership Award goes to Septentrio team

November 16, 2018 - By and

At the 2018 GPS World Leadership Awards ceremony, Jean-Marie Sleewaegen from Septentrio accepted the Products award, jointly on behalf of his colleagues Tom Willems, Andrew Simsky and Wim de Wilde. read more

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Logan Scott accepts the 2018 Signals Leadership Award

November 16, 2018 - By and

Logan Scott of LS Consulting received the 2018 Signals Award. Joe Rolli from Harris Corporation was on hand during the GPS World Leadership Dinner and Awards ceremony to present the award. read more

Quectel launches dead-reckoning GNSS module L26-DR

November 15, 2018 - By

Quectel Wireless Solutions has launched a compact dead-reckoning GNSS module, the L26-DR. The module was introduced at the Electronica 2018 show, held Nov. 13-16 in Munich, Germany. As the latest addition to Quectel’s GNSS portfolio, L26-DR is a concurrent multi-GNSS receiver module embedded with dead-reckoning solution, which greatly improves the positioning accuracy and speed while simplifying customer designs, the company... read more

Telit releases NavIC-enabled GNSS module

November 15, 2018 - By

Telit has introduced a new positioning module aimed at India. The SL869T3-I combines GPS with India’s NavIC (IRNSS) navigation system and the country’s satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS), known as GAGAN. The SL869T3-I module enables the creation of high-performance position reporting and navigation solutions. It complies with Automotive Industry Standard 140 (AIS-140) — an Indian government mandate that requires the use of... read more

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FCC approves use of Galileo for non-federal official use

November 15, 2018 - By

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the commission’s rules so that non-federal devices in the United States may access specific Galileo signals. While private users were free to use the European GNSS, with this ruling entities such as telecommunications companies can now also use Galileo. With today’s action, consumers... read more

GPS disrupted for maritime in Mediterranean, Red Sea

November 15, 2018 - By

The U.S. Maritime Administration issued an expanded advisory for GPS disruptions in the Middle East. The new advisory renews and repeats warnings for the eastern Mediterranean and adds the Port of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Reports have also been filed  with the U..S Coast Guard Navigation Center  about disruptions in Israel’s Port of Haifa and the Straits of Hormuz. Analysis by... read more

Lidar data fused for understanding of tropical forests

November 15, 2018 - By

A University of Queensland, Australia, environmental project fused data from terrestrial and UAV lidar collections to estimate forest biomass. Forest ecosystems contain more biomass than any other ecosystem. Estimating biomass — a critical endeavor to detect the health of ecosystems — can be difficult. Traditional methods can be destructive, such as harvesting trees to measure the weight of the different components.... read more