Volume XIX, Issue 2, February 2023

Generation of high resolution geospatial data using airborne topographic LiDAR and digital camera
data

B Sadasiva Rao, G Varaprasad Babu, B Laxman, P Srinivasulu, S Muralikrishnan, R S Mahendra, P C Mohanty, Ch Patanjali Kumar and T Srinivasa Kumar

Employee location tracking in retail stores

Caner Guney, Emre Tuncel and Hakan Ulagan

Performance assessment …

On February 6th, when the earth trembled for a few seconds,
Cities collapsed in southern Turkey and northern Syria,
Thousands perished.
It happened not for the first time and nor will be the last,
But stories unfold in the similar manner in most of the cases.
A repeated reminder to all of us sitting on …

March 2023

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2023

13-15 March
Munich, Germany

www.munich-satellitenavigation-summit.org

RIN Baska GNSS Conference (&
Smart Maritime Workshop)

14-19 May 2023
Baska, Croatia

https://rin.org.uk

GEO CONNECT ASIA

15-16 March, 2023
Singapore

www.geoconnectasia.com

Drones Asia

15-16 March, 2023
Singapore

https://dronesasia.com

Digital …

SBG Systems announces Quanta Plus
SBG Systems has launched Quanta Plus, its latest Inertial Navigation System (INS). It is a small, lightweight, and highperformance OEM product that can be easily integrated into survey systems with LiDAR or other third-party sensors. It is engineered to deliver accurate and reliable navigation data even in the most demanding environments. …

ZF partnership with Beep
ZF unveils its next generation shuttle for autonomous driving in urban environments and mixed traffic at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas/ Nevada, USA. It has announced a strategic partnership with U.S. mobility services provider Beep, Inc. The agreement aims to deliver several thousand shuttles to customers over the …

DroneDeploy support for DJI Mavic 3E
DroneDeploy Flight app now supports autonomous mapping missions on the new DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise (M3E), using the RC Pro Enterprise Smart Controller. This means that, for the first time, DroneDeploy can be installed directly on your smart controller. The Mavic 3 Enterprise’s high-resolution 20MP camera, support for network …

Maxar awarded $192m IDIQ contract
Maxar Technologies has announced that it was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA), worth up to $192 million over five years.
Under the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program contract, it will provide multiple U.S. allies and partners with commercial imagery services consisting of high-resolution …

FAA researching advanced RAIM for GPS approaches
An official evaluation of Advanced RAIM (ARAIM), a GPS technique used in aviation receivers for safer landings and take-offs, is being conducted by the William J. Hughes Technical Center (WJHTC) of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The WAAS Test Team at the technical center has begun to …

Govt of India to launch digital crop survey in 10 states this kharif season
Government of India plans to launch a digital crop survey from the kharif-2023 season across 10 states. In the survey, information on different types of crops sown by farmers in their fields will be collected through an automated process by using …

GNSS-based onboard orbit determination can now reach a similar performance as the DORIS (Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite) navigation system. It lends itself as a viable alternative for future remote sensing missions

Oliver Montenbruck

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‑ und Raumfahrt (DLR), German Space Operations Center, 82234 Wessling, Germany

Florian Kunzi

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‑ und Raumfahrt (DLR), …