Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
In today’s world of GNSS-contested environments and the emergence of multi-sensor fusion capabilities, there is a demand for filters that can navigate without the aid of GNSS. This article evaluates a complementary navigation filter designed to steer a sUAS autopilot in GNSS-contested environments.
By Inside GNSS
Learning GNSS positioning corrections for smartphones using Graph Convolution Neural Networks.
By Inside GNSS
A look at algorithms developed for the real-time detection and localization of GNSS interference sources, and an investigation into last year’s disruption at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
By Inside GNSS
When a plane attempts to land at the airport in poor visibility, signals from the instrument landing system (ISL) will help safely guide the aircraft to the ground. Such terrestrial air landing systems must be tested to ensure the navigation they’re providing is reliable.
By Renee Knight
This year’s Munich Satellite Navigation Summit featured notable speakers and some notable absences. European, American and Chinese, but not Russian, representatives of respective GNSS programs updated attendees on progress and concerns.
By Peter Gutierrez
GNSS corrections will provide lane-level accuracy and instant convergence for automotive and consumer market applications
By Inside GNSS
The Pentagon has requested $1.3 billion in its fiscal 2024 budget for bolstering the GPS system, preparing new satellites for launch and moving to a new control system. The biggest changes will come with the new GPS IIIF satellites, still a few years away.
By Brett Davis
The ANELLO GNSS INS system provides up to 30 minutes of continuous and accurate dead-reckoning during fully GPS-denied conditions.
By Inside GNSS
LIVERMORE, Calif. – May 16, 2023 – Topcon Positioning Systems and Fixposition announce an agreement for Fixposition to provide Topcon correction services to Fixposition customers in North America and Europe.
By Inside GNSS
Space is a mess. That according to the European Space Agency (ESA), which estimates there are 36,500 pieces of space debris orbiting the earth of greater than 10cm in size, and one million pieces between 1cm and 10cm. The number of smaller yet still dangerous objects is too staggering to contemplate.
By Peter Gutierrez
To operate safely and precisely, drones need reliable position, navigation and timing solutions—and there were plenty on display at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL in Denver this year. Educational tracks also highlighted the importance of protecting PNT from threats like spoofing and jamming.
By Renee Knight
Provides Integrators with Hardware and Software as a Service for Unparalleled Accuracy and Performance
Trimble announced today the Trimble PX-1 RTX™ solution for accurate and robust positioning and heading for commercial drone delivery applications.
By Inside GNSS
One prime mover, three trailers, 320 tons of ore, a 200-km trek – and no human driver. While that might sound futuristic to some, in Western Australia, it’s fast becoming reality.
By Inside GNSS
Combining high-performance MEMS tactical inertial sensor with a quad-constellation, dual-antenna GNSS receiver, Ekinox Micro is the logical choice for mission-critical applications. It meets theMIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-1275, and MIL-STD-810 standards, ensuring reliable and accurate performance even in the harshest environments.
By Inside GNSS
Positioning is the fundamental prerequisite for autonomy—and both absolute (global) and relative (local) information is required. While a critical piece, GNSS and inertial need to be combined with other sensors, like cameras, to perceive the surrounding environment to enable autonomous navigation.
By Renee Knight
During the Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) in Monterey, Calif., attendees not only had the chance to take in a variety of technical sessions, they also had the opportunity to learn from some of the manufacturers helping to advance the PNT industry.
By Renee Knight
PNT experts from around the world have gathered to share their research and the latest advancements in the field during this week’s biennial Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS).
By Renee Knight
DULUTH, Georgia and JUNDIAÍ, Brazil—AGCO, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment, infrastructure and precision agriculture technology, announced it has signed an agreement with Hexagon to expand its factory-fit and aftermarket guidance offering. The new guidance system will be sold as Fuse Guide on Massey Ferguson and Valtra tractors.
By Inside GNSS
Syntony GNSS, a leading provider of SDR Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions, has announced the integration of Xona Space Systems’ LEO PNT constellation to its GNSS simulators and receiver solutions.
By Inside GNSS
Adtran recently added new features to its Oscilloquartz aPNT+ technology suite to better protect critical timing networks.
By Inside GNSS
The ANELLO GNSS INS system provides up to 30 minutes of continuous and accurate dead-reckoning during fully GPS-denied conditions.
By Inside GNSS
Provides Integrators with Hardware and Software as a Service for Unparalleled Accuracy and Performance
Trimble announced today the Trimble PX-1 RTX™ solution for accurate and robust positioning and heading for commercial drone delivery applications.
By Inside GNSS
Combining high-performance MEMS tactical inertial sensor with a quad-constellation, dual-antenna GNSS receiver, Ekinox Micro is the logical choice for mission-critical applications. It meets theMIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-1275, and MIL-STD-810 standards, ensuring reliable and accurate performance even in the harshest environments.
By Inside GNSS
GPS, even when encrypted, is susceptible to spoofing and jamming and cannot be a single point of failure in critical PNT services such as military applications. Secure, resilient and assured PNT with six 9’s reliability is required, and is what ADVA and Brandywine Communications will provide through a new collaboration.
By Renee Knight
Honeywell’s EAGLE-M Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System ready to be delivered in 2023
By Inside GNSS
Movella and Fixposition are working together to create GNSS inertial navigation systems (INS) that leverage visual inertial odometry, with the goal of accelerating their development and commercialization.
By Renee Knight
ROCK Robotic also joins the Web3 GEODNET initiative as a high-definition mapping ecosystem partner
By Inside GNSS
Orolia recently received certifications for the Ultima-S survival emergency locator transmitter (ELT). The Ultima-S is a new generation ELT installed in either the cabins or liferafts and relays accurate aircraft location information to search and rescue teams.
By Inside GNSS
EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense, communications, and sensing markets, announced today the introduction of the TAC-450 line of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), which includes three high-performance IMUs with tactical-grade photonic Fiber Optic Gyros (FOGs), and features EMCORE′s patented Photonic Integrated Chip (PIC) technology.
By Inside GNSS
Oxford Technical Solutions Ltd (OxTS) is an established supplier of inertial navigation systems (INS), particularly to the automotive industry. Since 1998, its products have been providing critical data about where a vehicle is, how it’s oriented and how it’s moving. More recently the company has been making a big splash in the airborne mapping sector.
By Peter Gutierrez
The Boreas D70, a fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS) from Advanced Navigation, is designed to open up new application possibilities for FOG INS.
By Inside GNSS
infiniDome has added a new device to its anti-jamming solutions that’s designed to defend small to medium tactical UAS: GPSdome 2, the latest generation of the company’s GPSdome.
By Inside GNSS
Septentrio introduces the latest generation of GPS/GNSS base station receivers, designed for the creation of top-quality measurements for RTK and differential corrections.
By Inside GNSS
Orolia is the first company to receive certification from Cospas-Sarsat and the European Union Safety Agency for its new-generation distress tracking emergency locator transmitter, the ELT-DT.
By Inside GNSS
In early 2023, new explorer kits that provide centimeter-level positioning accuracy will be available from u-blox, allowing engineers to design and evaluate products that require such capabilities quickly and easily.
By Inside GNSS
SBG Systems recently released the Quanta Micro, an inertial navigation system (INS) for UAS surveying.
By Inside GNSS
Rx Networks, the dedicated North American distribution team for Unicore Communications, is pleased to announce the release of the next generation High-precision GNSS modules from Unicore.
By Inside GNSS
Orolia has expanded its family of Skydel-based simulators with the GSG-7.
The new GNSS signal testing solution has a small form factor and features an internal RF combiner, a 1000 Hz simulation iteration rate, real-time synchronization, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) integration, automation, and multi-constellation and multi-frequency simulations, according to a news release.
By Inside GNSS
Dr Mark Marshall takes on role as emerging inertial sensing technologies open new market opportunities.
Dr Mark Marshall has been appointed as Chief Engineer of Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd. Dr Marshall joined Silicon Sensing in 2017 as the lead engineer on numerous inertial programmes. Immediately prior to commencing as Chief Engineer he was the company’s Consultant Engineer and Electronics Discipline Manager. In this role he was responsible for the electronics and mechanical design of the company’s latest generation, tactical grade inertial measurement unit (IMU) – the DMU41.
By Inside GNSS
Cheryl Gramling knew early on what she wanted to do in life. Today, she is assistant chief for technology, mission engineering and systems analysis division, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and she’s playing a key role in getting us back to the Moon.
By Peter Gutierrez
Helix is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Beese as Chairman of its Board of Directors.
By Inside GNSS
Rx Networks announced today that Michael Longinotti, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, will retire from the company at the end of 2022, then continue to serve as a board member. John Carley, VP of Sales and Marketing, has been appointed by the Board of Directors to succeed Longinotti as Chief Executive Officer on January 1, 2023.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Dr. Boris Pervan with its Johannes Kepler Award September 23, 2022 during the ION GNSS+ Conference held September 19-23, at the Hyatt Regency Denver At Colorado Convention Center.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation (ION) announced the recipients of the 2022 Fellow membership during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting held January 25- 27, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
By Inside GNSS
FocalPoint Positioning, founded in 2015, is, as they say, very happening. Its Supercorrelation is a chipset-level software product for mobiles, wearables and vehicles that is changing the positioning game in urban environments. Interesting and energetic, FocalPoint founder Ramsey Faragher came out of the defense industry and has a risen rapidly in the GNSS firmament.
By Peter Gutierrez
As CEO Jean-Yves Courtois puts it, Orolia is focused on solving the hard problems. To do that, the France-based company, a global provider of resilient positioning, navigation and timing (RPNT) solutions, has become a technology integrator.
By Inside GNSS
Industry veteran Simon Baksh is joining JAVAD GNSS as Head of Product Development. Baksh trained as a chartered surveyor and first applied his land and hydrographic survey expertise to optimize oil exploration working for Schlumberger internationally.
By Inside GNSS
Zak Kassas, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California-Irvine, has receuved the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Kassas was one of 36 scientists and engineers from 30 institutions in the country to earn the recognition for 2022.
By Inside GNSS
Javier Benedicto, for nearly 14 years the Head of the Galileo Programme Department within the Directorate of Navigation at the European Space Agency (ESA), has been appointed Director of Navigation at the agency.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Dr. Mark Psiaki with its Johannes Kepler Award during the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2021 Conference. In addition to many other achievements, Psiaki co-authored the Inside GNSS cover story, “TRANSIT on Steroids: Doppler-Based GNSS Meets Large LEO Constellations”
By Inside GNSS
The European satellite service provider (ESSP) placed Charlotte Neyret, former European Development Director for Thales Alenia Space, at its helm as chief executive officer.ESSP manages EGNOS, the European GNSS satellite-based augmentation system.
By Inside GNSS
Focal Point Positioning, a deep tech start-up whose technologies address the core problem of GNSS inaccuracies due to multipath and spoofing, hasannounced the hire of GPS industry veteran Jim LaMance as Chief Experience Officer
By Inside GNSS
Focal Point Positioning, a UK-based deep tech start-up whose patented technology improves the performance of GPS chips in smartphones, wearables and vehicles, announced the hiring of GPS industry veteran Scott Pomerantz as its new CEO.
By Inside GNSS
AIRMAR®Technology Corporation, a world leader in ultrasonic transducers and Chirp technology, is pleased to welcome Diana Sufariu to the company as Director of Engineering.
By Inside GNSS
The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull has been appointed to the Advanced Navigation board of directors. Mr Turnbull will serve as a Director on the Board and will help accelerate the company’s expansion across their global markets.
By Inside GNSS
GNSS corrections will provide lane-level accuracy and instant convergence for automotive and consumer market applications
By Inside GNSS
LIVERMORE, Calif. – May 16, 2023 – Topcon Positioning Systems and Fixposition announce an agreement for Fixposition to provide Topcon correction services to Fixposition customers in North America and Europe.
By Inside GNSS
Syntony GNSS, a leading provider of SDR Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) solutions, has announced the integration of Xona Space Systems’ LEO PNT constellation to its GNSS simulators and receiver solutions.
By Inside GNSS
Topcon Positioning Systems announced it has made a strategic investment in DDK Positioning Ltd, an Aberdeen based specialist in GNSS receivers and PPP correction services.
By Inside GNSS
The Mistral Group is proud to announce the operational deployment of Space4Earth, its new corporate mission that aims to define the future of geolocated positioning by 2030.
By Inside GNSS
CNH Industrial announces that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Hemisphere GNSS (Hemisphere), a global leader in high-performance satellite positioning technology, currently owned by Unistrong, a company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China.
By Inside GNSS
TDK Corporation releases Tronics GYPRO®4300, a high stability and vibration-tolerant digital MEMS gyroscope for dynamic applications.
By Inside GNSS
Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS positioning solutions, announces the start of the Agnostic Corrections Partner Program. This program facilitates the use of Septentrio receivers with various high-accuracy services, which offer varying levels of accuracy, coverage and delivery methods. This also allows integrators and users to select the service which is most suitable for their specific application and business model.
By Inside GNSS
IRVINE, Calif.—Fairview Microwave, an Infinite Electronics brand and a leading provider of radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave products, has introduced a new series of mil-spec GPS/GNSS antennas for use in a variety of mobile and small-form-factor applications.
By Inside GNSS
GMV is selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of the Galileo Second Generation System Test Bed (G2STB)
The G2STB is one of the Key infrastructure elements that ESA is developing for the correct functioning of the Galileo second generation satellites
By Inside GNSS
Honeywell’s EAGLE-M Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System ready to be delivered in 2023
By Inside GNSS
ROCK Robotic also joins the Web3 GEODNET initiative as a high-definition mapping ecosystem partner
By Inside GNSS
Companies to collaborate on potential application of Supercorrelation™ in EVs and AVs
By Inside GNSS
TerraStar-X Enterprise PPP corrections enable lane-level accuracy with convergence in under a minute.
By Inside GNSS
GMV and Lockheed Martin have plans to develop a global satellite based augmentation system (SBAS), changing the model for how navigation and precise point positioning (PPP) services are received.
By Renee Knight
When responding to a wireless 911 call, knowing the location of that call is everything.
By Renee Knight
A European project symbol of Belgian space competitiveness funded by the European Space Agency
By Inside GNSS
In November, 2022, Spain’s GMV announced it had signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corporation, to develop two core elements of the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) system, the first SBAS (satellite-based augmentation system) in the Southern Hemisphere.
By Peter Gutierrez
With the new SimORBIT high-accuracy orbital modeling software from Spirent, developers can now calculate LEO orbits and their characteristics for more precise GNSS/PNT testing.
By Inside GNSS
Businesspeople, politicians, civil servants and a range of engineers and researchers gathered in Brussels for the 15th European Space Conference in January. Topics were many and varied, with war, dependency, resilience and a big-time launcher crisis heading the list.
By Peter Gutierrez
Identifying multipath reflectors for validating ray tracing in urban canyons.
By Inside GNSS
