About Diane Sofranec
Diane Sofranec is an award-winning writer, editor and marketer. She has more than 30 years of experience editing and writing for technical print publications and 15 years of experience editing and writing for e-newsletters and websites.
Posts by Diane Sofranec
SpaceX launched into orbit for the U.S. Space Force the fifth GPS III satellite (SV05) on June 17. GPS III SV05 eventually will replace one of the legacy GPS IIR satellites.... Read more»
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are something of a Swiss Army knife for the surveying and mapping communities. Commercial applications continue to grow, with UAVS — known as drones in the... Read more»
Avalanches can be a danger for skiers as well as for the resort towns that welcome them. For protection, towns erect steel fences to act as barriers along the ski... Read more»
UAVs provided Synergy Geomatics with the safest and most effective way to survey and map a 2,400-acre open-pit mine, and collect about a gallon of water from the bottom of... Read more»
Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) orbs guide 50-ton robots carrying containers at the Ports of Auckland. In a world-exclusive report, GPS World visited with officials at the Ports of Auckland,... Read more»
The UAV market has been growing rapidly for the past several years, especially in the U.S. with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 107 regulations becoming active in August 2016.... Read more»
The ability to capture and evaluate truth on the ground through aerial imagery is an ever-growing industry, thanks to the proliferation of UAVs and access to imagery on demand and... Read more»
The CHCNAV P330 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) UAV has been deployed to complete orthophoto acquisition with a resolution of 15–20 centimeters of the city of Xichang in the Sichuan... Read more»
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