GPS is good for perhaps 70% of surveying needs. Inertial Navigation is the forgotten friend of GPS. Traditionally complex and expensive, Inertial Navigation has become competitive, easy-to-use and cost-effective. Need...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) appointed Mr. Laszlo Szentpeteri as the new Regional Sales Manager for South-East Europe. Mr. Szentpeteri is born and lives in Hungary. He has over 15...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has announced Gs, a new technology for satellite positioning systems. This development is a receiver technology with Universal Signal Tracking, a system capable of tracking...

Integration continues on its role. New and recent techniques are becoming integrated with older techniques such as the total station. Integration has been going on for years, of course, but...

China has announced plans to build a satellite navigation system that will include up to 35 satellites and be working in the Asian region by 2008. The system, called "Beidou",...

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...

Positioning and navigation by satellites has now become part of everyday life for many citizens all over the globe, and a plethora of (commercial) services rely on the continuous well...

Russia is negotiating with other countries on the possible joint use of Russia's global positioning satellite system Glonass, Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian Space Agency said. "We are...

RICS Geomatics (United Kingdom) will be continuing its series of evening lectures again this session. Each lecture is CPD relevant and may count towards your CPD/LLL quota as specified within...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has presented a new products and solutions that capture and visualise spatial information: the Leica TPS1200+ Total Station, Leica RedLine, Leica GNSS Spider V3.0, Leica SmartRTK, Leica...