Rob Lorimer

It is with some sadness that I write my last Professional OEM newsletter. I am leaving the GPS World team to take up a new role with Australia’s national science agency the CSIRO where I will be a director in the Oceans research flagship. In many respects this is a return to my roots as it was...more >>

Thanks to all who attended last month’s webinar on the application of positioning in open-pit mining. As usual, in this month’s newsletter we will provide the webinar poll results and also try and answer the questions we were unable to get to during the hour.

Open-pit mining (also called open-cut, open-cast, and strip mining) has historically been an early and innovative adopter of new positioning technologies. Some of the earliest examples of fitting GPS to heavy earth-moving machinery occurred in the U.S., Australian, and Canadian mining industries in...more >>

GPS and GIS have been a big focus for me over the last six months, and the output is a new market report, the abstract of which is available in the GPS World white paper section (The Global Market for GNSS Augmentation, Infrastructure and Services 2009-2013.) The headline is, according to the most...more >>

I am writing this month’s column after spending two weeks immersed in the European GNSS scene, first at the Galileo Application Days in Brussels then the Munich Navigation Summit. Our editor-in-chief will be covering the latest information from the systems providers, so I will focus on European...more >>

Thanks to all who attended our GPS/mapping webinar on January 28, with additional thanks to sponsor Hemisphere GPS and moderator Eric Gakstatter. As promised, this month’s editorial will expand on some of the topics raised during the Q&A session as well as look at the poll results. For those of...more >>

An overview of the GPS/mapping market is this month’s topic and also the subject of a GPS World webinar scheduled for January 28. My colleague Eric Gakstatter provides great insight into the application of GIS/mapping technology in both the Survey Scene newsletter and the recently relaunched...more >>

December traditionally brings a time to appraise the old year nearly ended and peer into the mists from which the new year will soon emerge. December 2009 has particular importance as it marks the end of a decade in which GPS became a consumer item, and GNSS indelibly entered the consciousness of...more >>

Listening in on October’s webinar, “What industry wants from GNSS,” a couple of comments by Sara Materson of Novatel regarding professional GNSS resonated with me. The first was that professional OEM GNSS is starting to commoditize; the second was regarding the growing importance of Internet...more >>

It’s all over for another year. Although the number of exhibitors was down (I estimate by about 15-20 percent) and some exhibitors had downgraded their booth size, there did seem to be a cautious optimism on the floor of the exhibition hall at ION 2009.