Topcon Positioning Systems has unveiled the HiPer SR — an advanced GNSS RTK receiver that Topcon describes as having “the most compact and lightweight design of any fully integrated precision...
Read More →By Tracy Cozzens Surveyors install and configure a base and rover for a 13,000-hectare survey of the Plains Kogoni in Mali. In the heart of landlocked Mali, between the Atlantic Ocean 800 miles to the...
Read More →Geneq Inc. has announced the SXBlue II GNSS, a GNSS receiver that uses both GPS and GLONASS with SBAS (WAAS/EGNOS/MSAS/GAGAN) to attain 30-cm/1-foot (RMS) accuracy in real-time using free SBAS correc...
Read More →This discussion of current trends in location-enabled mobile devices takes as its foundation the different operating systems (OSs) for those devices. Why? For GPS/GNSS hardware units to be useful, the...
Read More →UC Berkeley researchers have developed a method to provide real-time, high-resolution data in hard-to-map waterways, using GPS. Tossing a robot is Andrew Tinka, with Kevin Weekly. (Photo courtesy of J...
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A U.S. Army camp near Townsville’s suburban areas, circa 1944. By Tracy Cozzens Beneath the surface of a tropical paradise in the city of Townsville on Australia’s Sunshine Coast lies a hidden ma...
Read More →Like a bad week on the stock exchange, LightSquared hit speed bump after speed bump this week. After Monday when the company boldly claimed there would “be a resolution within a month” to ...
Read More →“GPS can no longer evolve fast enough. Satellite-based systems cannot maintain the speed of development now required for the hyper-fast evolutionary pace of modern applications and devices. For pos...
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