December 2017
The generation of well geo-referenced floor plans and application in indoor navigation system Guang-Je Tsai, Kai-Wei Chiang, Min-Chuan Tsai, You-Liang Chen and Jhen-Kai Liao | Performance evaluation of Single Baseline and Network RTK GNSS Reha Metin ALKAN, Murat OZULU and Veli ĚLÇĚ | Crowd monitoring through WiFi Data Ciro Gioia, Francesco Serm i, Dario Tarc hi and Michele Vespe | Are administrative boundaries in Google maps correct? S Vasantha Kumar | Deformation analysis of the Balkan Peninsula from GPS data 2011-2016 Keranka Vassileva, Georg i Valev and Mila Atanasova-Zlatareva | UAS in India: From a ‘no fly zone’ to a ‘fly zone’ | CONFERENCE 3D Australia 2017 | Interview Stuart Woods
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NAVIGATION
The generation of well georeferenced floor plans in indoor navigation system
Guang-Je Tsai, Kai-Wei Chiang, Min-Chuan Tsai, You-Liang Chen And Jhen-Kai Liao
In order to improve the accuracy of the indoor floor plans generated by sketch maps, this study turns to the robot mapping technique with the portable mapping system to produce highly accurate floor plans...
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GNSS
Performance evaluation of Single Baseline and Network RTK GNSS
Reha Metin ALKAN, Ě. Murat OZULU And Veli ĚLÇĚ
In this study the performance of Single Baseline and Network RTK systems were evaluated and the attainable static accuracies were compared to each other...
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POSITIONING
Crowd monitoring through WiFi data
Ciro Gioia, Francesco Sermi, Dario Tarchi And Michele Vespe
The research pointed out the feasibility of crowd monitoring through WiFi positioning. The huge amount of data gathered during the JRC Open Day 2016 by 20 WiFi access points deployed within the Ispra site were cleaned and processed to analyse people flow and estimate the number of participants to the event....
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MAPPING
Are administrative boundaries in Google maps correct?
S. Vasantha Kumar
Google maps are extensively used now-a-days in various scientific applications. However the question of accuracy of the maps needs to be explored especially when dealing with the political boundaries or borders between states or nations...
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GEODESY
Deformation analysis of the Balkan Peninsula from GPS data 2011-2016
Keranka Vassileva, Georgi Valev and Mila Atanasova-Zlatareva
The present work is an extended study of the surface movements of the territory of Bulgaria over the territory of the Balkan Peninsula (BP) and mainly of its central and southern part...
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UAV
UAS in India: From a ‘No Fly Zone’ to a ‘Fly Zone’
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced draft regulations / civil aviation requirements (CARs) on civil use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), commonly known as drones on November 1, 2017. Readers may go through the draft and comment...
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Industry news
 
GNSS update
 


The most powerful LabSat yet! – LabSat 3 Wideband   DoT in India exempts feature phones from GPS installation diktat


Special Academic Discount Program by NTLab for GNSS boards!   Russia vows to support the Philippines transport development


Precision is going to be simpler, cheaper, faster! –NT1065 by NTLab   Air Force accepts delivery of GPS Next Generation Operational Control System


Tersus announces BX316D   China adds 2 satellites to Beidou


Trimble Expands CenterPoint RTX FAST Correction Service   Australia launches regional SBAS positioning trial


Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Unveils Safe City Framework   Indian Railways to use GPSenabled fog safety devices


"3-D mobile mapping will grow as we meet the needs of our growing population"   Lockheed Martin assembles third US Air Force GPS III satellite


NovAtel partners with Esterline on aviation GNSS receiver   Aiming at the future together: PENTAX!


Harris completes navigation payload for GPS III satellites   No UK firms for European space contracts due to Brexit uncertainty


Hemisphere GNSS enhanced Atlas system   Galileo satellites readied for December launch


Autodesk and Esri Partnership    
 
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