Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The Saladin Citadel of CairoThe 10th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT2017) will take place from May 6 – 8, 2017 at the Conrad Cairo Hotel, on the river Nile in Cairo, Egypt.
Online registration is available. Early bird rates end January 1, 2017.
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Trimble Catalyst Works with Android DevicesTrimble has released Catalyst, a software-defined GNSS receiver that works with Android handhelds, smartphones, and tablets. The receiver, announced at the Trimble Dimensions conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, provides on-demand GNSS, geolocation capabilities to transform consumer devices into high-accuracy mobile data collection systems, the company said.
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SDX GNSS Simulation with Four Simultaneous Constellations
With the addition of BeiDou B1 and B2 signals, Longueuil, Canada-based
Skydel’s (SDX) GNSS simulator now covers the four global navigation
satellite systems, the company said. SDX also added Galileo signals E5a
and E5b.
With these new updates, SDX said it is now possible to create a GNSS
simulation with a four-constellation, dual-frequency test scenario on a
single software-designed radio (SDR). The SDX GNSS simulator is ideal
for engineers, designers, and research institutes, the company said.
Skydel now offers these satellite signals:
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EPFL Campus, Lausanne and Lake Geneva (photo A. Herzog)The 2017 European Navigation Conference (ENC 2017) will take place on the EPFL campus in the new Swiss Tech Convention Centre (STCC) on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland from May 9 – 12, 2017.
The call for papers is now open. The submission deadline is January 8, 2017. Registration and conference program will be available soon.
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Rob Hranak, Swift Navigation vice president of business development, talks about Piksi Multi at InterGEOThis year’s InterGEO in Hamburg, Germany, featured the latest in geospatial wizardry including new navigation and positioning components and boards not only driving progress in the surveying and mapping industries, but also feeding into the wider GNSS user community.
San Francisco-based Swift Navigation came into InterGEO brandishing the all-new Piksi Multi, described as the world’s first affordable multi-band and multi-constellation receiver.
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Terrebonne, Canada-based Eos Positioning Systems has released its Arrow Gold Bluetooth GNSS receiver. Arrow Gold is the first iOS, Android, and Windows Bluetooth GNSS receiver to work with GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BeiDou, Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), and the Atlas correction service, the company said.
The palm-sized Arrow Gold receiver provides centimeter-level accuracy on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Arrow Gold, which costs $4,395, works with such data collection systems as Esri’s Collector/Survey123 and others.
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Hemisphere GNSS and Carlson Software have released the Hemisphere S321 and Carlson BRx6 receivers for land surveying, construction fieldwork, and marine operations.
The lightweight and compact new receivers work with GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo, the company said. The receivers also incorporate real-time kinematic (RTK) and L-band corrections, including optimization for Hemisphere’s subscription-based Atlas GNSS global correction service, Hemisphere said.
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Swift Navigation’s Piksi Multi with evaluation boardUpdated: San Francisco, California–based Swift Navigation has announced its newest product, the Piksi Multi, a multi-band, multi-constellation, real-time kinematic–capable OEM GNSS receiver module with a unit price of $600.
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Sydney, AustraliaThe 2016 IGNSS Conference will take place on December 6-8, 2016 at UNSW Australia’s Sydney campus in Sydney, Australia.
Registration is now open.
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Trimble has released the SX10 scanning total station that merges high-speed 3D scanning, imaging technology, and total station measurements for surveyors, the company said.
"This is the top one or two [products] we have launched in the 20 years I’ve been here," said Ron Bisio, Trimble geospatial division vice president, at a media day in Westminster, Colorado, October 5.
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A Google self-driving car in Mountain View, California. Wikimedia Commons photo by grendelkhan.Low-cost, precision, GNSS receivers will become a reality in the driverless cars, drones, and smartphone markets by 2021, said ABI Research in two new reports, “Precision GNSS in Automotive” and “GNSS IC Design Trends: Modules, Standalone, Combo, and Embedded.”
The automotive industry will be the main driver behind precision GNSS receiver adoption, in which centimeter-level accuracy is essential to complete driver safety systems with the redundancy necessary for autonomous vehicles, the company said.
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EquationsThe Galileo E6 signal is centered at 1278.75 MHz, and comprises three signals: an authorized signal (E6A, the publicly regulated service, PRS plus two civilian signals), a data component (E6B), and a pilot component (E6C). Both E6B and C are modulated using binary-phase shift keying (BPSK) code division multiple access (CDMA) memory codes, having lengths of 5,115 chips and chipping rates of 5.115 Mcps.
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Eclipse P326Hemisphere GNSS has introduced two new OEM boards, the Eclipse P326 and P327, designed for machine control, land or marine survey, and agriculture applications. The boards support GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, and Japan’s QZSS (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System).
The boards are the first within the Eclipse product line to have refreshed low-power capability, reduced size, cost, and weight, the company said. P326 and P327 offer centimeter-level accuracy in either single- or multi-frequencies, using signals from multiple GNSS constellations. and Atlas-capable modes.
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