The Ordnance Survey (OS) has re-measured the Scottish peak of Ben Nevis to find it’s a metre taller than previously thought and now stands at 1,345m. The actual difference from the last official mea...

In June 2015, CRS Press released the 4th edition of GPS for Land Surveyors written by Jan van Sickle. When reviewing this book, which is aimed not at researchers but at practitioners, Mathias Lemme...

Remote GeoSystems, specialised in geospatial full motion video (FMV) solutions, has announced direct support in all LineVision cloud, server and desktop applications for the world’s most popular UAV...

Juniper Systems is offering the Archer 2, a budget-friendly, easy-to-use sub-metre GPS solution using Esri ArcPad, Effigis’ EZSurv Post-Processing software and its ultra-rugged handheld computers. T...

DroneMetrex, an Australian manufacturer of the TopoDrone photogrammetric mapping UAV systems, has introduced a solution for directly georeferenced mapping from UAVs. According to the company, the diff...

Tallysman, Canada, has introduced the TW5340 smart antenna. This antenna pairs Tallysman's Accutenna technology antenna with STMicroelectronics’ Teseo II receiver. This combination makes this smart ...

OxTS will show its new GPS-aided inertial navigation system xNAV500 at this year's AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference in Orlando, USA, from 13-15 May 2014. The new xNAV500 represents an addition worth ...

Juniper Systems’ Archer Field PC was recently used to measure the elevation of a never-before-climbed peak in the remote Myanmar Himalaya. The peak, Mount Gamlang Razi, has historically been known a...

The US President, Barack Obama, has signed a bill prohibiting Russia from constructing any stations in the country that could improve the precision of GLONASS, the Russian alternative to GPS. This was...

During the US shutdown, around half of the more than 5,500 GPS datasets processed with the aid of Geoscience Australia’s AUSPOS global positioning system were from institutions and individuals based...