Article By: Art Kalinski

Two weeks ago I gave a presentation, at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting. This is one of those mega-meetings attended by almost anyone involved in the transportation related professions. TRB is part of the National Research Council jointly administered by the National Academy...More>>

Article By: Axelle Pomies, Gard Ueland

The 21st century today faces and will continue to encounter many new societal challenges, all mutually interdependent: health, environment, agriculture, ageing population, personal security, public and civil protection, safe and efficient transport and mobility, citizen rescue, land management,...More>>

Article By: Logan Scott

Thousands of man hours and millions of dollars later, we finally have the 975-page GPS Technical Working Group (TWG) report, confirming what five minutes of back-of-the-envelope calculation predicted. Hooray for our side, good job GPS Industry Council; we’ve won the war and the foe is vanquished,...More>>

Article By: James D. Litton

Precise positioning of many different kinds of vessels and other equipment depend upon satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) of GNSS, principally GPS and GLONASS at this time. The applications range from exploration to production and delivery of hydrocarbons to shore-based installations and...More>>

Article By: Randall Luthi

Dear Chairman Genachowski: The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), which represents approximately 270 member companies involved in outer continental shelf (OCS) energy production throughout the United States, is gravely concerned over the pending allocation of Mobile Satellite Services...More>>

Article By: Tony Murfin

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 snapshot is simply a momentary picture captured at a single location — there really could be an...More>>

Article By: Alan Cameron

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 passage from that 18-year-old “Quality Control For Differential GPS in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration” article:...More>>

Article By: Rob Lorimer

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. More>>

Article By: Rob Lorimer, Geoff Roberts

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>>

Article By: Eric Gakstatter

I received some feedback on my last column entitled "What’s the Difference Between a Used Car Salesman and a GPS Salesman?" Most of the comments were positive in that the technical content was reasonably deep and thorough. However, I did receive a couple of e-mails from folks who were offended by...More>>