Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The French company Geoflex demonstrated GNSS corrections-driven centimetric positioning in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo on July 8, at the national Stadium Alphonse Massamba-Debat. The demo employed a dual-frequency GNSS chipset receiving GPS and Galileo signals and the Geoflex corrections service via the Nigerian NIGCOMSAT-1R satellite on L Band
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Iridium Communications Inc. made a strategic investment in DDK Positioning (DDK), an Aberdeen, Scotland-based provider of enhanced GNSS accuracy solutions. DDK uses the Iridium network, provided by a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation, to provide global precision positioning services that can augment GNSS accuracy
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According to a presentation by China’s Satellite Navigation System Management Office, the value of industries related to the country’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will surpass 1 trillion yuan (about 156.4 billion U.S. dollars) by 2025.
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The Trimble GuidEx Machine Guidance System uses an integrated GNSS and inertial navigation system (INS) to compute a virtual reference point and precise heading, pitch and roll. This provides quick and efficient navigation along route corridors or to specific target areas,
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u-blox has introduced a service that offloads the position calculation from IoT devices into the cloud. The CloudLocate service will enable accurate positioning of IoT devices with constrained computing, communications, and energy resources.
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u-blox announced its first multi-band high accuracy timing solutions to concurrently support the L1 and L5 GNSS signals. The ZED-F9T-10B and LEA-F9T-10B timing modules and the RCB-F9T-1 timing card deliver nanosecond-level timing accuracies required to synchronize cellular network base stations and smart power grids.
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A consortium of European and Latin American organizations will establish and operate new Galileo Information Centre (GIC) for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
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Chinese government television is carrying live coverage of GNSS-guided cotton-seed drilling in the fields of the Xianjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a vast area of deserts and mountains in northwest China.
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Murata has developed a new micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) six degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) inertial sensor, the SCHA63T, for autonomous off-highway vehicles, dynamic inclination sensing and GNSS positioning support.
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The European GNSS Agency (GSA) together with the European Commission has published an Information Note on the Galileo High Accuracy Service, providing an overview of the main characteristics of the service
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Vodafone, a British telecommunications company, has successfully used a new precision positioning technology to remotely track a vehicle to within 10 centimeters of its location.
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Spaceopal has signed a contract for the development of the reference algorithm for the users of the Galileo High Accuracy service (HAS) and for a full-fledged user terminal.
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On March 3 a Galileo Performance Workshop, open to anyone interested in GNSS and led by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), will offer an in-depth analysis of the performance of the Galileo constellation and signals and how they are evaluated for users.
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