Iridium Communications has completed its acquisition of Aireon LLC, operator of the world’s only space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance system. The ...

Pacific Defense has received a U.S. Army contract to develop the next generation of its assured positioning, navigation and timing (APNT) plug-in card, designed to provide reliable navigation for ...

SparkPNT, a subsidiary of SparkFun Electronics, officially launched today as a standalone company in the positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) industry. The company grew out of SparkX, SparkFun’s ...

No audio available for this content. Recent changes in hardware and standards make one-meter accuracy possible, in some cases as soon as this year. The transcript of a talk given to Android developers ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. During a recent infrastructure survey, a handheld scanning system captured a multi-acre property in less than 15 ...

You’ve probably heard of at least one of those terms in any discussion around GPS anti-jam technology for defense. Because they are all terms that describe essentially the same thing: a specialized ...

No audio available for this content. Mason and Dixon were pioneers in bringing geodetic astronomy to the American colonies. Through the efforts of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership, we ...

Exactly a decade has passed since the first major milestone of the GPS-mobile phone success story, the E-911 legislation enacted in 1999. Ensuing developments in that history include: Snaptrack bought ...

Timing from atomic clocks is now an integral part of data-center operations. The atomic clock time transmitted via Global Position System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ...

No audio available for this content. Table 1. Preliminary 2013 U.S. GPS economic benefit estimates. (Chart: GPS World, based on data from author) This article is based on a presentation to the ...

Advanced industrial societies are increasingly reliant on the fantastic capabilities of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) — GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo — and, therefore, increasingly ...

Limited landing area as well as interference due to wind disturbance and wave motion make shipboard landings of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) extremely difficult. Use of UAVs at sea can enhance the ...