Hexagon’s Geosystems division has announced HxGN SmartNet in Great Britain (GB) now supports additional GNSS satellite signals from the European Galileo and Chinese BeiDou constellations, providing added value for subscribers....

A short provision in the larger Islands Act bill passed by the Scottish Parliament in July 2018 now requires government mapmakers to put the Shetland Islands where it belongs. Tavish...

DJI, a world leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, has announced the global rollout of the Phantom 4 RTK, a high-precision aerial survey drone that combines centimetre-level navigation...

Ordnance Survey (OS) has just updated its geodetic infrastructure. Mark Greaves, Lead Consultant at Geodesy, describes these developments and takes a look at shorter and longer-term geodetic issues for surveyors....

Trimble has announced that Galileo and BeiDou observation data will be included with Trimble VRS Now subscriptions in North America. Powered by the Trimble Pivot Platform GNSS Real-time network software, the...

The theme of this issue of Geomatics World is GNSS. Geodesy was once very much in the domain of surveyors but today the use of satellite data for positioning is...

Richard Groom summarises some of the interesting papers from the FIG Congress focussing on GNSS, Hydrography, 3D Cadastre and mapping. GNSS – Detecting Cycle Slips Roberts and Hancock (TS03E) presented...

COVER STORY The cover shows one of the Galileo satellites. Image courtesy of ESA. This issue contains the following articles: PREPARATIONS FOR FUTURE GNSS EUROPEAN DATUM 1950 - A HISTORY...

Trimble has announced the launch of a new model of its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, the Trimble R10 Model 2. Designed to help surveyors in a wide range...

Geneq Inc. has announced the SXblue F90, a multi-constellation GNSS receiver with very high level technology integration. The receiver hopes to fulfil the current surveyor’s demands in terms of performance,...