Taking the Search out of Search and Rescue By David W. Affens, Roy Dreibelbis, James E. Mentall, and George Theodorakos In 1997, a Canadian government study determined that an improved search and...
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is conducting a 12-year project, called Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum (GRAV-D), to redefine the vertical datum of the United...
U.S. Capitol Building. (Photo: RNTF) Last week, 27 members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai. In it, they urged him...
The long-awaited signal interface control document (ICD) for China’s growing GNSS will appear this month, according to representatives of the system who spoke in a “Compass: Progress, Status, and...
Off-the-Shelf Antennas for Controlled-Reception-Pattern Antenna Arrays By Yu-Hsuan Chen, Sherman Lo, Dennis M. Akos, David S. De Lorenzo, and Per Enge INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley THE...
Navigation and positioning test system supplier Spirent Communications this week introduced a software suite for the STR4500 GPS simulator, enabling users to generate their own test cases based on...
To meet the challenges inherent in producing a low-cost, highly CPU-efficient software receiver, the multiple offset post-processing method leverages the unique features of software GNSS to greatly...
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of GNSS signals for timing and navigation,...
Affordability, Capability, and Back-to-Basics Acquisition Headshot: Keoki Jackson By Keoki Jackson The history of GNSS shows each year has always been more successful than the year prior, and in...
Swiss-based u‑blox, a provider of GPS/GNSS and wireless semiconductors, has achieved successful satellite positioning using China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. According to u-blox, the...