A range of solutions are vying to replicate what GPS does outdoors in an indoor environment, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to “terrestrial” GPS, plus many others. Which one is likely to...
Handling the Biases for Improved Triple-Frequency PPP Convergence By Denis Laurichesse Precise point positioning (PPP) can be considered a viable tool in the kitbag of GPS positioning techniques....
In the latest update of its Motion Tracker product portfolio, Xsens has added active heading stabilization (AHS) to its core sensor fusion algorithms on the MTi 10-series and MTi 100-series. Both...
By Hans-Georg Büsing, Ulrich Haak, and Peter Hecker Future safety-relevant driver assistant systems demand vehicle state estimations accurate enough to match the position within a road lane, which...
It Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive By Alison Brown, Jarrett Redd, and Mark-Anthony Hutton GNSS signal simulators can be expensive and beyond the limited budgets of many researchers. In this...
Improving Navigation Continuity Using Parallel Cascade Identification By Umar Iqbal, Jacques Georgy, Michael J. Korenberg, and Aboelmagd Noureldin To reliably navigate with fewer than four...
On November 18, a Consultation Event will take place in Brussels on the subject of receiver technology. The event is being held to inform the stakeholders of the European GNSS receiver community...
Bruce Carlson, president of Carlson Software, and William “Butch” Herter talk about the company’s new BRx5 GNSS Receiver and Surveyor2 data collector, among others,...
CAST Navigation of Tewksbury, Massachusetts introduced its SGX GPS Satellite Simulator. With its compact size — 7 × 11× 3 inches — and weighing in at just over 4 pounds, the SGX is CAST’s...
By Fabio Dovis Fabio Dovis When subjected to very strong interference, a GNSS receiver can be totally blinded and stop working. This is often the scope of intentional jammers. However, in a number...
By Thorsten Lück, Günter Heinrichs, IFEN GmbH, and Achim Hornbostel, German Aerospace Center This article discusses the GALANT adaptively steered antenna array and receiver and demonstrates the...
Editor’s note: GPS World Innovation editor Richard Langley has co-authored a study, described below, exploring how irregularities in Earth’s upper atmosphere can distort GPS...
NovAtel’s FlexPak6D enclosed GNSS receiver. NovAtel Inc. has announced the FlexPak6D enclosed GNSS receiver, a flexible dual-antenna solution for application developers seeking a...
Loctronix ASR-2300 Loctronix Corporation, a provider of unified positioning solutions for GNSS-challenged environments, is making available its new software-defined radio (SDR) module, the ASR-2300,...
We appear incompletely before you this month. A funny thing happened on the way to the presses: we discovered that we had more content than pages in which to squeeze it. “All the news that fits to...
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...
The radio spectrum is about to get even busier, as Europe’s Galileo satnav system starts services, at the same time the European Space Agency (ESA) tests novel satellite-based telecommunication...
Photo: peeterv/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Complexity and Context: Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, Henry Martin, and Kimon Voutsis,...
By Frank van Diggelen, Global Locate, Inc. This update to a frequently requested article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy...
Seven technologies that put GPS in mobile phones around the world — the how and why of location’s entry into modern consumer mobile communications. By Frank van Diggelen, Broadcom Corporation...
