Hemisphere GPS (Canada) has been announced winner of the Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Leadership Foundation Award for its outstanding commercial achievement in science and technology in the businesses over...

NOAA will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 global positioning satellites in Earth orbit, which is vital to ensuring the accuracy of GPS data...

A USA Air Force Modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, was launched successfully on 20th December from Cape Canaveral Air Force...

Up to 70% of land in Japan is covered by forest. Since the second world war many forests have been planted with cedar and nurtured for their high productivity. However,...

Have you ever wondered about the GPS signal-tracking capabilities ‘L1P, L2E'? One of our readers asked our specialist for an explanation, and this is what he replied. We received the...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has released the Leica GMX901, a GPS receiver with integrated antenna and ground plane, specially developed to monitor sensitive structures such as mines, slopes, bridges, dams and...

Excessive groundwater extraction in the Bandung Basin has led to rapid sinking of the water table and is hypothesised as the main cause of land subsidence. Periodical GPS surveys were...

KOREC (United Kingdom) has launched a new system that makes RTK cm precision GPS a viable solution for the mapping market. By combining a Trimble RTK GPS Receiver, Trimble’s VRS...

Magellan Z-Max.Net has has been qualified for the new French GPS Reference Network Teria. Originally planned by the Ordre des Géomètres-Experts (French Surveyors Union) to facilitate the work of its...

Strata (United Kingdom) has launched their new PocketPenmap and new Penmap GPS. Now users can do full RTK (GPS and Glonass) surveys on their mobile phone and PDA, in an...