Surplus fuel loaded in error onboard the launch rocket caused loss of three new GLONASS satellites on December 5. The mishap burdened the DM-3 booster rocket with an excess of 1.5 to 2 tons of fuel, ...
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The use of a precise wide-area positioning technique for airborne trajectory solutions for LiDAR surveys provides both relative and absolute accuracies similar to those derived from using a local GNSS...
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INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley By Alejandro Egido and Marco Caparrini WHY IS THE SKY BLUE? This is an age-old question, interesting to anyone with a curiosity about his or her surroundings. ...
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A performance assessment demonstrates the ability of a networked group of users to locate themselves and each other, navigate, and operate under adverse conditions in which an individual user would be...
Read More →Covers from 1990, 1994, and 1998. Two Decades of GNSS Products Question: How has your product and services mix changed, with the evolution of GNSS technology and users, since 1990 (or since you...
Read More →It has long been accepted that we may reasonably expect any new technical device to have some growing pains. If you examine the history of the space program you will discover evidence of this. In the ...
Read More →September 1992. One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine’s September 1992 issue. A salient pa...
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A team of Swiss researchers is using data from a network of GPS receivers and the technique of tomography to obtain profiles of how moisture is distributed with height, which might lead to better weat...
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