Most precision agriculture users have settled for 1-meter accuracy using GPS, made possible with the reliable and convenient corrections provided by WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System). GPS/GNSS is important to key areas in agriculture, including field mapping, yield mapping, and guidance.

For the past four years, Arizona-based Space Data has used classic weather balloons and a GPS-based navigation system to maintain a constellation of balloons across the southwest U.S. Its SkySite communications network enables its customers, oil and gas companies, to be aware of any developing corrosion, the primary cause of pipeline failures.

Navigation No Bit Player at CeBIT; Lawyers, Investors in League Against Industry Leader; Leica Unveils Quad-Constellation Antenna; Booming Ag Market Grows Hemisphere Revenues; more

Business Outlook — UWB Location Tech on a Roll Apr 1, 2008 By: Stephen Colwell

Ultra-wideband location applications envisioned or already created support emergency services, asset tracking, and manufacturing inventory management.

Recent achievements of GPS receiver manufacturers such as Air Semiconductors, SiRF, Qualcomm, u-blox, Glonav, and Geotate (NXP Software?s spin-off) are finally paving the way for intelligent integration of GPS in digital cameras.

The Business — JAVAD GNSS Unveils Survey Products Mar 1, 2008

JAVAD GNSS Unveils Survey Products; California Highway Tests Showcase Traffic Solution; SiRF Unveils New Multimedia Platform, Deals with Stock Drop; Marines Pick Rockwell Collins for Sky-Diving Nav

UPS First to Use ADS-B; Solar Cycle Could Disrupt GPS, Communications; Trimble Acquires Crain Enterprises; Russia Sells GPS-GLONASS PND; more

The Business — u-Nav Latest GPS Chip Company Acquired Jan 1, 2008

u-Nav Latest to be Acquired; Hemisphere GPS Harvests Steer-by-Wire Company; Hexagon Closes on NovAtel Acquisition; L-3 Lands $33 Million Air Force Contract Extension; more

Perspectives — December 2007 The coming year holds lots of surprises for the GNSS industry, which will overshadow even the panoply of technological advances 2008 has in store. Dec 19, 2007 By: Eric Gakstatter

The Year of the Who
GNSS is such a technical subject that it's easy to get caught up in the research and new technologies being brought to the survey/construction market. GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, Compass, SBAS, NDGPS, etc. are subjects one could write hundreds of pages about, not to mention a 1,000-word e-newsletter.