NovAtel Inc., an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of precise positioning technology, today introduced the latest addition to their SMART antenna line. The SMART-MR10 is the first in a new family of GPS+GLONASS L1+L2+L-band integrated receiver and antenna products. Housed in a rugged enclosure,...More>>

Topcon Positioning Systems, Aerotec LLC, and Laser Technology, Inc., have created a joint vegetation management solution designed to allow utility foresters to use GPS to identify and locate conductor-vegetation clearance problems quickly and accurately, Topcon said.More>>

Modern machines such as wood harvesters can automatically cut trees and remove branches, but an expert is still needed to plan a thinning and to mark the trees to be felled. The process can be accelerated if the forest ranger can virtually mark trees to be cut, using geographic coordinates instead...More>>

Averna (Palo Alto, California) has released the URT 5.2 test platform, which includes a commercially available 3x50 MHz Wideband Record & Playback solution targeting precision GNSS markets such as survey, agriculture, and earthworks.More>>

NovAtel has introduced five new models to its low-cost, L1 OEMStar receiver card product line and four new models to the OEMStar supported FlexPak-G2 enclosure product line.More>>

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey – the official U.S. government source for determining precise latitude, longitude and elevation – announced it is undergoing a modernization effort that takes into account advances in GPS and other technologies.More>>

Tallysman Wireless Inc., of Ottawa, Canada, has released the TW2400 Magnet Mount GPS/GLONASS Antenna. The TW2400 is a professional-grade GNSS antenna covering the GPS L1, GLONASS L1 and SBAS (WAAS, EGNOS & MSAS) frequency band (1574 to 1606 MHz). It is designed for precision industrial,...More>>

OmniSTAR announced results of a receiver test in which two OmniSTAR 9200G2 receivers ran in parallel for two days, restarting every hour. One receiver processed OmniSTAR proprietary SBAS-supplied corrections for both GLONASS and GPS. The second receiver only worked with GPS corrections.More>>

Geneq Inc. announced it has integrated a DGPS Beacon receiver inside their SXBlue II GPS product. Named the SXBlue II-B GPS, it expands the SXBlue II GPS sub-meter mapping performance to over 38 countries around the world wherever a DGPS beacon transmitter is broadcasting.More>>

NOAA's National Geodetic Survey announced the approval and release of a document titled "National Geodetic Survey User Guidelines for Single Base Real-Time GNSS Positioning." More>>