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March 3, 2020

Precise Positioning Service via Cloud Offered to Telecomm Customers

Swift Navigation and Deutsche Telekom announced a partnership to incorporate Swift’s Skylark Cloud Corrections Services within Telekom’s communications infrastructure through its new Precise Positioning product offering. The companies’ joint lane-level accurate Precise Positioning is designed for level 2 and 3 automotive applications

By Inside GNSS

Air and Space Forces Want $100s of Millions More for GPS-related Priority Projects

When the White House submits its budget request for the Department of Defense to Congress every year, that is not the final word. The different military services also send Congress their unfunded priority lists, which detail the projects the White House chose to forego but, the services hope, Congress will add back in. This year several of those priorities are GPS-related.

By Dee Ann Divis

Housed GNSS Positioning and Heading Receiver for Construction, Machine Control

Septentrio introduced a new compact and robust integrated heading GPS/GNSS receiver, the AsteRx SB ProDirect. It delivers accurate heading and pitch or heading and roll information in addition to reliable high-accuracy RTK positioning, according to the company.

By Inside GNSS

February 28, 2020

GPS IIIF Slows as Program Funding Shifts to Space Force

The White House wants to maintain the pattern of steady investment in the GPS program though it appears the administration has decided to go more slowly on deployment of the new GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites.

By Dee Ann Divis

February 25, 2020

Android Developers Enticed by Half-Meter Accuracy from Smartphone

A new GNSS-centric application programming interface (API) library for Android and IoT developers is on the verge of appearing, and is now accepting registrations for its software development kit. The Fulfilling Enhanced Location Accuracy in the Mass Market through Initial Galileo Services (FLAMINGO) reportedly achieves half-meter accuracy in a smartphone.

By Inside GNSS

February 21, 2020

Apple Seeks Machine-Learning GNSS Positions Patent

Apple has filed an application to patent a machine-learning system for correcting GNSS positions based on consumer location estimates gathered from the setting. The technology could be applied to the company’s mobile mapping app.

By Inside GNSS

February 14, 2020

Revolutionist Parkinson Covers Past, Present, Future of GPS in Online Video

“I’ve been a revolutionist for 47 years,” Brad Parkinson began a recent invited lecture at Google, “with this stealthy revolution. GPS is indeed a stealthy revolution.” In his lecture “GPS and Humanity” he described how GPS has “stealthily” crept into the fabric of global society and created dependencies that did not exist before.

By Inside GNSS

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Scottish Rocket Site Planned; Could It Launch British GNSS?

Plans have been submitted for a rocket launch site in the north of Scotland that could boost communications satellites into orbit in two years. No word has come regarding the possibility of launching satellites of the United Kingdom’s a-borning GNSS from this facility, but the prospect is intriguing.

By Alan Cameron

February 13, 2020

GNSS Receivers Keep Mapping Drone at Optimal Distance from Rugged Terrain

Keeping a mapping drone at a safe distance from rugged vertical terrain during its mission requires intense planning and a GNSS-enabled technology called “terrain following.” A new online video series and free webinar document the real-life challenges and hazards that professional surveyors encounter in their work, this among them.

By Inside GNSS

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February 12, 2020

Private Location Data Bought and Sold; FCC Fines Possibly Pending

Americans by the millions are being tracked through their cell phones, using location data sold both legally and, apparently, illegally. The buyers-users range from marketers and bounty hunters to border enforcement groups within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

By Dee Ann Divis

February 10, 2020

Third GPS III Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral

The third next-generation GPS III satellite arrived in Florida on February 5, destined for an expected April launch.

By Inside GNSS

February 7, 2020

Navigate Any Environment, Road or Underground

Three different low-cost sensor integrations, covering vehicle navigation in a range of environments, will be covered in a February 12 webinar, “Automotive-Grade GNSS + Inertial for Robust Navigation.”

By Inside GNSS

February 5, 2020

European Space Agency Looks at 2020

European Space Agency (ESA) top brass welcomed journalists to the Agency’s headquarters in Paris for its annual New Year’s press launch. On hand was the Director General as well as ESA’s Galileo guru Paul Verhoef, who spoke one-on-one with Inside GNSS.

By Peter Gutierrez

B: Applications

U2: BeiDou Is My Co-pilot...

Rescue Satellite Makes Space Navigation History...

Precise Positioning Service via Cloud Offered to Telecomm Customers

Air and Space Forces Want $100s of Millions More for GPS-related Priority Projects

Housed GNSS Positioning and Heading Receiver for Construction, Machine Control

GPS IIIF Slows as Program Funding Shifts to Space Force

Android Developers Enticed by Half-Meter Accuracy from Smartphone

Apple Seeks Machine-Learning GNSS Positions Patent

Revolutionist Parkinson Covers Past, Present, Future of GPS in Online Video

Scottish Rocket Site Planned; Could It Launch British GNSS?

GNSS Receivers Keep Mapping Drone at Optimal Distance from Rugged Terrain

Private Location Data Bought and Sold; FCC Fines Possibly Pending

Third GPS III Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral

Navigate Any Environment, Road or Underground

European Space Agency Looks at 2020