GPS World articles from May 2009

GPS World archives from May 2009

Witness to history.(Viewpoint essay)
May 1, 2009... OVER THE COURSE of a 30-year military career, you get used to being up for some event or other at the break of dawn, or oh-dark-thirty as we fliers like to say. Many of those events have been special, as was the turn on of the L5 GPS...

u-blox announces acquisition of Geotate.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... u-blox Holding AG has acquired Geotate B.V. (a joint venture between Road Group Holding AG and NXP B.V). Geotate develops GPS geotagging solutions based on software GPS technology and related web services. The acquisition represents a...

Attack the course: meeting GNSS challenges 2009-2010.
May 1, 2009... "Scan2map, the real-time airborne laser scanning method developed by our team, creates terrain models with sub-decimeter accuracy directly in flight, while indicating their quality per each point on a 3D grid. This creates economic advantages...

RTK networks.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... The value of precision GNSS augmentation infrastructure is projected to nearly double in the next five years to $504 million (Lorimer, Gakstatter, 2009, GNSS Augmentation Infrastructure and Services Market Report 2009-2013). RTK networks form a...

Precise Point Positioning.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... PPP, like RTK, uses ambiguous carrier-phase measurements--but only from the user's receiver. It needs ultra-precise, accurate satellite orbit and clock information as provided by the International GNSS Service, but does not require...

Mobile-phone applications.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... This category started out as mobile phone navigation apps, but the judges' panel found it too narrow, and broadened it to mobile apps. Location is being used for social networking, navigation, search, and location-aware mobile advertising. ...

Imagery, communications.(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Image-based navigation, including imagery and laser scanning/ranging sensors, will assure seamless transition from outdoor GPS to indoor navigation. Wi-Fi can also do that, but needs a pre-set environment (sensors), while image-based navigation...