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Canada approves BVLOS drone flights with Iris

March 31, 2020 - By

MVT Geo-solutions, in partnership with Iris Automation, has been granted the first beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) by Transport Canada using only onboard detect-and-avoid (DAA) systems. The approval was granted based on the utilization of Iris Automation’s DAA system, called Casia, which provides commercial drones with automated collision avoidance maneuvers. The waiver permits flights within the Unmanned Aircraft... read more

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Product review: Rugged tablet tackles survey tasks

March 31, 2020 - By

Technology continues to develop and put more capability, data storage and ease of use into many professional’s hands, and surveyors are no different in their needs. Spatial data collection has become an important task in the diverse service world of today’s surveyor with a variety of platforms, sensors and techniques being used to provide this operation. The movement toward completing... read more

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Controlling coronavirus with a mobile app to trace contacts

March 31, 2020 - By

A team of medical researchers and bioethicists at Oxford University published results in Science that offer further understanding of coronavirus transmission. The evidence is enabling several international partners to assess the feasibility of developing mobile apps for instant contact tracing in record time. If rapidly and widely developed, the mobile apps could help to significantly slow transmission rates and support... read more

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PCCW Global and UniStrong to link GNSS tech with telecoms, airports

March 31, 2020 - By

PCCW and Unistrong will collaborate on developing GNSS technologies and services for the telecommunications and aviation industries. PCCW Global is the international operating division of HKT, a Hong Kong telecommunications service provider. Beijing UniStrong Science and Technology Corporation Limited is a navigation and positioning company. The collaboration intends to link satellite positioning to 5G mobile networks to provide positioning data... read more

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USDOT seeks university to help secure automated navigation

March 31, 2020 - By

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced competitive grant solicitation for a new University Transportation Center (UTC) specifically on Highly Automated Transportation Research. “People will not be comfortable getting into an automated vehicle or with platooning driverless trucks heading down the highway if they think… their GPS might be spoofed,” according to Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department... read more

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European GNSS Agency provides list of COVID-19 apps

March 30, 2020 - By

The European GNSS Agency, based in Prague, is providing on its website a list of location-enabled applications that it considers potentially useful in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The applications range from those helping public authorities understand the dynamics of the outbreak to supporting citizens in their everyday lives by checking supermarket lines. The apps are sorted into four categories:... read more

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Contingency Ops, GPS III SV02 receive Operational Acceptance from USSF

March 30, 2020 - By

The Space and Missile Systems Center achieved a major GPS milestone on March 27 with the Contingency Operations (COps) program and GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 02, both of which received U.S. Space Force’s Operational Acceptance approval. COps is an upgrade to the current GPS Operational Control System to operationally command and control GPS III satellites. These satellites are the... read more

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Final steps underway to operationalize new GPS M-code signal

March 30, 2020 - By

U.S. Space Force, Lockheed Martin upgrade Operational Control System (OCS) and refresh GPS constellation with new satellites. The final steps to fully enable the ultra-secure, jam-resistant military code (M-code) signal on GPS are now underway. As part of the U.S. military’s effort to modernize GPS, the U.S. Space Force has been steadily upgrading its existing GPS Ground Operational Control System... read more

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