And the Beat Goes on Developments in the LightSquared saga came fast and furious in June; highlights are listed below and briefly recapped in the adjacent news story. It will be dated by the time you ...
Read More →There is so much going on around the world in GNSS applications and developments that when we try to report what’s going on in a particular location, all we can really do is provide a snapshot. Each...
Read More →Landing airplanes with GPS is not a new concept. People were demonstrating the feasibility back in the early 1990s. But landing transport airplanes in commercial airline service is something that’s ...
Read More →When I first visited Beijing a few years ago, I came there from a stop in India. This was just before the Olympics in 2008, but there were signs then of big-scale preparations in terms of highway infr...
Read More →How GLONASS helps fill in gaps in GPS coverage for a user with a combined GPS/GLONASS receiver. When the Russian GLONASS system lost three new satellites in a recent launch failure, did this long-sta...
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Using the Augmentation System with GPS-Equipped Mobile Phones By François Boullete, Boris Kennes, Michaël Mastier, and Lee Banfield GPS corrections from the European Geostationary Navigation Overl...
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A new method enables the mobile phone to compute its own position using acquisition assistance data with increased resolution in some of the fields. It benefits network operators as they can deliver t...
Read More →This article is more on the theme of how much R&D and investment it takes to stay in the GNSS game. I was pleased to recently talk with Hemisphere, headquartered in Calgary, about some of the feat...
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