GEO Business 2020 has been postponed again because of COVID-19. The show, originally rescheduled to take place Sept. 24-25, has been rescheduled to take place May 19-20, 2021. It will still take place at ExCeL London. According to organizers, the GEO Business show connects the data holders and processors with the people who benefit from the applications and insight which... read more
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Chinese surveyors take BeiDou to the top On May 6, more than 30 Chinese surveyors left base camp to summit Mount Qomolangma — known in the west as Mount Everest. The team is using both... read more
SPH Engineering has launched a product designed to conduct bathymetric surveys of inland and coastal water. The system — an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) integrated with an echo sounder — is time- and cost-efficient, the company said. It is suitable for mapping, measuring and inspecting tasks as well as environmental monitoring. The system allows field workers to collect data with... read more
New research by Bjorn Bergman of the environmental non-profit SkyTruth has found ships in various parts of the world reporting locations thousands of miles away and circling at precisely 20 knots. Bergman’s findings were first reported at the annual meeting of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation on May 5. Bergman previously observed and reported on circling phenomena with GPS-based... read more
L3Harris’ Jason Hendrix discusses the company’s latest developments, including the delivery of its GPS III payloads, at ION GNSS+ 2019, which took place Sept. 16-20 in Miami. read more
The national time system at Israel’s National Physics Laboratory (INPL) in Jerusalem is now protected by a GPSdome unit for cyber protection of GPS/GNSS signals, according to Israel’s Homeland Security, a private company established in 2012. Microchip partner Focus Telecom installed the GPSdome cyber protection system under a support and maintenance contract. GPSdome was developed by infiniDome, an Israeli startup.... read more
Dozens of parties cite evidence of harmful interference and vast economic harm that FCC ignored in favor of dubious 5G marketing claims Dozens of private-sector interests will file Petitions for Reconsideration of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent order to allow Ligado Networks to rezone its satellite spectrum holdings for terrestrial mobile use and “flip” them for a profit, according... read more
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