Lidar USA is integrating its UAV scanning systems with the Harris Aerial H4/H6 Hybrid multicopters. As surveyors and mappers experience growth, they assume larger and larger projects, making longer flight times increasingly important. The Harris Hybrid can provide such flights with lidar and industrial-grade cameras, allowing for far greater coverage in a single flight. “The beauty of the Harris Hybrid,... read more
Esri is partnering with the Jane Goodall Institute to develop a set of tools that will help communities map and manage the ecosystems around them through a collaborative design and planning approach, aided by GIS software. According to the partners, these tools will help communities map, monitor, and better manage their natural resources from community forests and wildlife reserves, to... read more
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has begun taking orders for its latest-generation Miniature PLGR Engine – M-Code (MPE-M) GPS receiver set for 2020 production deliveries. According to independent testing, the MPE-M is the lowest size, weight and power (SWaP) small Type II form factor ground receiver available and incorporates the company’s recently certified Common GPS Module... read more
Is 5G simply another generation of mobile communications technologies? Or is it something revolutionary? To help with answers, test and measurement specialist Rohde & Schwarz has compiled an in-depth book describing the main aspects of 5G New Radio (NR) technology. The contents of the book can be read online for free. Rohde & Schwarz has been an active participant in... read more
The Federal Aviation Administration has added new airspace restrictions — effective July 11 — on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) attempting to fly over national-security-sensitive locations. The FAA has been cooperating with federal partners to address concerns about malicious drone operations by using the agency’s existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 99.7 (14 CFR §... read more
A report filed with NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System and published in June outlines how a passenger aircraft flew off course during a period of GPS jamming and nearly crashed into a mountain. Fortunately, an alert radar controller intervened, and the accident was averted. Friedman Memorial Airport serves the ski resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho. Mountain peaks in the... read more
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