The number of people killed in pleasure craft accidents in Norway has been relatively stable for the last 10 years ranging between 38 and 24. In 2015 the number was 37 and in 2016, 27 (Berntsen, 2017). The reduction in deaths by 2016…
Mass-market applications, ranging from self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to handheld smartphones, are increasingly demanding high-precision from GNSS integrated with other enabling navigation sensors…
In Mongolia, several Continuous GNSS stations are operated and managed by different agencies, private companies and national scientific institutions and these stations have been built for purposes such as topography, cartography, cadastral surveying geodynamic, mining and crustal movement monitoring.
Volume XV, Issue 3, March 2019
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The GPS Week Number Rollover is coming – 5 things you should know
Guy Buesnel
SDGs, Digital Tools and Smart Cities
Zhixuan (Jenny) Yang, Abbas Rajabifard
Mine Surveying in Finland – Education
and Professional Practices
Pasi Laurila
Large scale topographic mapping based on UAV and aerial
photogrammetric technique
M Juraidi Ahmad, A Ahmad and K D Kanniah
2D-based indoor mobile …
When notion of safety crashes
Two crashes within a short span of 5 months.
In October it was PT Lion Mentari Airlines’ Flight 610, Indonesia
And now Ethiopian Airlines Group Flight 302.
Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jet was in service.
Passenger comforts, technologically advanced, cheaper to run,
fuel efficient, …
Wish air safety was a prime …
April 2019
Commercial UAV Expo Europe
8-10 April
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
www.expouav.com/europe
Pacific PNT
8-11, April
Honolulu, HI USA
www.ion.org
European Navigation Conference 2019
9 – 12 April
Warsaw, Poland
http://enc2019.eu
FIG Working Week 2019
22 – 26 April
Hanoi, Vietnam
http://www.fig.net/fig2019
XIII International Navigation Forum & NAVITECH-2019
23 – 26 April Moscow, Russia
http://glonass-forum.com
AUVSI Xponential 2019
29 April – 2 May
Chicago, United States
http://www.auvsi.org/events/xponential/auvsi-xponential-2019
May 2019
13th Annual Baska …
Trimble announces next generation mixed-reality device
Trimble has announced a new wearable hard hat compatible device that enables workers in safety-controlled environments to access holographic information on the worksite—the Trimble® XR10 with HoloLens 2. It is the first device created with the Microsoft HoloLens Customization Program and integrates the latest spatial computing technology into a …
Transformation in autonomous marine operations using robotic arm
Marine-i, the EU funded programme set up to boost marine innovation in Cornwall, has made a grant award to specialist marine technology company, Submarine Technology Ltd (STL). STL has opened a new office in Penryn, Cornwall, UK, to focus on designing and building their futuristic robotic arm, …
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for GPS pioneers
This year’s £1m QE Engineering Prize has been won by four individuals who played key roles in developing GPS. The Americans Brad Parkinson, James Spilker Jr, Hugo Fruehauf, and Richard Schwartz were all present at the London ceremony held to announce the honour.
Dr Parkinson said it …
Microsatellite contract to Space Flight Laboratory
The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded a C$15 million contract to Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) for development of multipurpose microsatellites to support Arctic surveillance. Upon successful completion and testing of the prototype, two additional microsatellites will be …
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