Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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
The team at UK based OxTS recently completed a survey with its developmental LiDAR mounted backpack at an unexpected location: Minster Lovell Hall, an English Heritage site in Oxfordshire.
By Inside GNSS
The Robot Plotter is a compact, fully autonomous, self-driving robot that uses RTK-GNSS positioning to place lines and other markings on a variety of ground surfaces. The machine, made by Netherlands-based Tyker Automation, sets out markings 12 to 16 times faster than traditional three- or four-person crews.
By Peter Gutierrez
The industry is innovating in GNSS, IMU and HD mapping technology, but more work is needed to develop higher performance, lower cost applications that enable instant, extremely accurate positioning at the centimeter level or better for lane-level navigation.
By Kevin Jost
In this column, guest contributor Mike Horton from ANELLO Photonics introduces a new gyro technology that bridges the market gap between high-performance (but expensive) sensors (fiber-optic and ring laser gyros) and low-cost (but imprecise) MEMS gyros. Benefits of improved gyro quality enabled by SIPHOG are illustrated, including GNSS-denied navigation scenarios.
By Inside GNSS
Keysight Technologies recently became the first to receive Global Certification Forum (GCF) validation of a 5G location based services (LBS) Assisted Galileo (A-Galileo) test case by combining 5G new radio (NR) and GNSS technology—an achievement that will accelerate the implementation of LBS in smartphones.
By Renee Knight
Through its recent acquisition of IoT firm Nestwave, NextNav can now combine its highly synchronized TerraPoiNT GPS backup system with Nestwave’s existing terrestrial LTE/5G signals to create near nationwide resilient PNT capabilities—lowering deployment costs by an estimated 75%, or more than $250 million, and allowing the company to scale sooner.
By Renee Knight
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
After years of studying the concept of using low-Earth orbit (LEO) navigation satellites to supplement the Galileo system, the European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to move forward with an in-orbit demonstration as part of its new FutureNAV program.
By Renee Knight
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
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
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
Rx Networks TruePoint.io today announced its high precision solution can be integrated with Snapdragon® mobile platforms to enable precise positioning on smartphones.
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
