On the eve of 2006 Galileo finally became tangible reality. Launched from Balkonur, Kazakhstan, atop a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle, the first Galileo-In-Orbit Validation Element (Giove A) was rocketed beyond Earth’s atmosphere...

Mark Newman has been appointed as European business development manager for the Hemisphere GPS product range. According to CSI Wireless (Canada) and Sadaret (UK) the new post has been created...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offer oversize opportunities for monitoring and managing many facets of our vulnerable world. Particularly in developing countries,...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...

It is likely to be 2012 before the Galileo system itself is fully operational on a stand-alone basis, says this month’s interviewee Owen Goodman, and Galileo will never be a...

Trimble (CA, USA) has acquired intellectual property assets from privately-held The XYZs of GPS, Inc. (MA, USA), in an all-cash transaction. The XYZs of GPS develops real-time GNSS reference station,...

NovAtel Inc. has released its first production standard Galileo-ready receiver and antenna. The new L1L5E5a receiver offers superior 16 channel tracking of GPS L1/L5, Galileo L1/E5a and SBAS signals in...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) launched the Leica GX1230 GG and Leica ATX1230 GG sensors for surveying applications as well as the GRX1200 GG Pro sensor for reference station networks. The new...

Version 1.51 of Leica MobileMatriX has been released; it now fully supports a Multi-Sensor GIS. Within a Multi-Sensor several sensors, like TPS, GPS, Levels and Laser Range Finders, can be...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) announced the release of Leica GradeSmart 3D (V5.2), a smart machine automation dozer and grader solution for the construction industry, and the DigSmart 3D V.2.2, a smart...