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ION Announces Annual Award Winners, Fellowships

January 31, 2014 - By

The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Annual Awards during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) 2014 in San Diego, California, January 27-29. ION also announced the recipients of the 2014 fellow memberships. Awards The ION Annual Awards Program is sponsored by The Institute of Navigation to recognize individuals making significant contributions or demonstrating outstanding performance relating to the art... read more

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New DX-200 Expands Robotic Working Range, Features Hybrid Versatility

January 31, 2014 - By

Sokkia Corporation is offering enhanced abilities and versatility to its DX series of total stations with the introduction of the DX-200 in the North American market. When configured for hybrid positioning, the DX-200 has the ability to use both GNSS positioning and optical positioning data simultaneously. The standard Sokkia Hybrid Robotic System includes the DX, GRX2 GNSS receiver and MESA... read more

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Exelis Reaches GPS OCX Milestones for Navigation and Encryption Software

January 31, 2014 - By

Exelis has successfully completed several software upgrades for the new Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System, or GPS OCX.  Integration and testing were recently conducted on iteration 1.5 of the OCX navigation, encryption and Mission Upload Generator, or MUG, software. The new version of GPS software will help ground controllers better understand the satellites’ exact positioning in space.... read more

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Telenav Acquires skobbler to Tap into ‘Wikipedia of Maps’

January 30, 2014 - By

Telenav, Inc., announced today that it has acquired skobbler GmbH, the European-based navigation company with the highest rated OpenStreetMap (OSM)-based GPS navigation apps in the world. With this acquisition, Telenav brings the most successful OSM navigation experts in the world together as one team — including the founder of OSM, Steve Coast, who joined Telenav in 2013 — and becomes... read more

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Telenav Acquires skobbler to Tap into the ‘Wikipedia of Maps’

January 30, 2014 - By

Telenav, Inc., announced today that it has acquired skobbler GmbH, the European-based navigation company with the highest rated OpenStreetMap (OSM)-based GPS navigation apps in the world. With this acquisition, Telenav brings the most successful OSM navigation experts in the world together as one team — including the founder of OSM, Steve Coast, who joined Telenav in 2013 — and becomes... read more

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How Atomic Clocks Work — with Jello

January 30, 2014 - By

The EngineerGuy, author of educational books, demonstrates how atomic clocks work, and discusses their use in GPS, with the help of Jello. read more

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Applanix Conducts Successful Test Flight of Professional Mapping UAS

January 29, 2014 - By

Applanix Corporation and American Aerospace Advisors have completed a successful series of test flights of AAAI’s RS-16 platform equipped with Applanix’ DMS-UAV aerial photogrammetry payload. This is the first successful mission for a long-endurance UAS (unmanned aerial system) capable of producing professional-grade, directly georeferenced mapping imagery for civilian applications such as pipeline monitoring, power line and emergency response mapping. Tests... read more

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Lockheed Martin Powers on Second GPS III Satellite in Production

January 29, 2014 - By

The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System (GPS) recently turned on power to the bus and network communications equipment payload of the program’s second satellite designated GPS III Space Vehicle 2 (SV-02). The successful powering on of GPS III SV-02, on December 19, 2013, at Lockheed Martin’s Denver-area GPS III Processing Facility (GPF),... read more

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