The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is performing another Multi-Year CORS Solution (MYCS) of the National CORS. This will mean the CORS coordinates will be updated to be consistent with the latest International Terrestrial Reference Frame of 2014 (ITRF2014). NGS has provided preliminary information from the new MYCS at this website. It should be noted that these values are considered beta... read more
Averna has launched a series of development tools that enable the real-time monitoring of assets. The Averna ConnexThing Toolkits enable customers to quickly connect new and existing manufacturing test assets to PTC’s ThingWorx Industrial IoT Platform. Each toolkit targets a specific programming language or test sequencer to accelerate the implementation and deployment of an internet of things (IoT) solution with ThingWorx.... read more
COGO releases 2018 Report Card on the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) The U.S. National Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is improving with broader expertise, according to an assessment by the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO). The NSDI’s grade rose from a C in the 2015 Report Card to a B- in the 2018 Report Card. The improved overall grades reflect a... read more
WTS Positioning Solutions, a Swedish GPS tracking company, has released its next generation of smart GPS trackers: the Trax G+ series. At the top of the range is Trax G+ 4G LTE-M, one of the first LTE trackers commercially available on the market, the company said. It supports 4G LTE-M and NB-IoT standards, with both European and U.S. models available.... read more
Spire Global, a space-to-cloud analytics company, is now using Galileo to offer GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) products for the weather community. Radio occultation is the process of using satellites to measure how GNSS signals are refracted by the Earth’s atmosphere. Two of Spire’s nanosatellites are the first to use Galileo signals to measure GNSS-RO profiles, a service now available to... read more
News from the European Space Agency A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system. Their measurements not only confirm Galileo performance at extremely high latitudes, but also offer knowledge of space weather events overhead. In particular they offer insights into the ionosphere — the... read more
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