Roads and Highways

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 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

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

January 31, 2020

SAPA and SPARTN GNSS Corrections Roll Out from SAPCORDA Joint Venture

Sapcorda Services GmbH announced the release of its Safe And Precise Augmentation (SAPA) Premium GNSS positioning service, providing GNSS corrections via internet and satellite.

By Inside GNSS

January 8, 2020

HxDR: New Vision of Digital Reality at CES 2020

A new cloud-based, digital reality visualization platform in the Hexagon AB booth captured the attention of CES 2020 visitors in Las Vegas this week. HxDR creates accurate digital representations of the real world through the seamless combination of reality-capture data from airborne, ground and mobile sensors.

By Inside GNSS

December 16, 2019

Last Call for Driverless Protocol — Buzzwords Shared.

There’s still time, barely, to sign up for this week’s webinar. Learn 3 key concepts for autonomous automotivery: lane level, antenna phase center offset and phase center variation.

By Inside GNSS

December 13, 2019

LiDAR-on-chip Uses MEMS Beamsteering

Draper has advanced its development of a LiDAR-on-a-chip using patented, all-digital MEMS optical switches for light beamsteering to gather the digital data to build high-definition maps.

By Inside GNSS

December 5, 2019

Webinar: Antennas Clear Roadblocks To Driverless Cars

Calling all automotive engineers — and anyone involved in designing or promulgating the fast-oncoming world of autonomous driving.

For driverless vehicles, current GNSS meter-level positioning accuracy still serves for lane-level detection. But hazardous misleading information poses a serious, disruptive and critical safety concern.

By Inside GNSS

December 4, 2019

Live Tests Show Confidence in Driverless Car

An innovative positioning engine based on a safety-oriented paradigm uses a dual-frequency GNSS receiver, automotive cameras, accurate maps, low-cost inertial sensors and vehicle odometry. The real-time integrity layer bounds the error of each estimated value with a confidence level for safe navigation.

By Inside GNSS

December 3, 2019

New 4-Constellation Chip from u-blox

u‑blox released the NEO‑M9N, the first module based on the company’s new robust meter‑level M9 global positioning technology platform, designed for demanding automotive, telematics, and UAV applications.

By Inside GNSS

November 5, 2019

Inertial Breakthroughs Guide the Autonomous Vehicle

The complex and mission-critical needs of the autonomous vehicle market demand innovation at higher levels in several different sensors and in sensor integration. A new photonic chip technology offers promise in providing high-volume, low-cost manufacture of high-end, tactical-grade performance fiber-optic gyros (FOGs)for inertial navigation in GNSS-obstructed environments.

By Inside GNSS

September 17, 2018

25th ITS World Congress

This year’s Intelligent Transport Systems & Services (ITS) conference will be held in Denmark in September. ITS World Congress will take place from September 17-21 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. The Congress Theme: “ITS – Quality of Life”, supports the Copenhagen belief that intelligent transport systems are an important means to enhance people’s daily lives through seamless, smart and sustainable mobility solutions.

By Inside GNSS

May 22, 2018

Topcon Technology Roadshow Hits Pleasanton, CA

The Technology Roadshow continued its steady roll around North America building on Topcon’s Intersection of Infrastructure and Technology message. Along the 28-city tour, the traveling trailer stopped for several days in beautiful Pleasanton, California, just down the road from Topcon Positioning Systems’ headquarters in Livermore.

From the start, this four-day event, hosted by RDO Integrated Controls, Engineering Supply, Papé Machinery and 5D Solutions, provided attendees with a little extra insight into the potential of technology-enabled construction in infrastructure.

By Inside GNSS

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Apple Seeks Machine-Learning GNSS Positions Patent

GNSS Receivers Keep Mapping Drone at Optimal Distance from Rugged Terrain

Navigate Any Environment, Road or Underground

SAPA and SPARTN GNSS Corrections Roll Out from SAPCORDA Joint Venture

Last Call for Driverless Protocol — Buzzwords Shared.

LiDAR-on-chip Uses MEMS Beamsteering

Webinar: Antennas Clear Roadblocks To Driverless Cars

Live Tests Show Confidence in Driverless Car

New 4-Constellation Chip from u-blox

Inertial Breakthroughs Guide the Autonomous Vehicle

25th ITS World Congress

Topcon Technology Roadshow Hits Pleasanton, CA