Under a recent Australian Government production demonstration contract, GPSat Systems has continued with both capability expansion and commercialisation of it’s GRIFFIN precision J&S geolocation technology. Unlike other commercially available RF/RFI telecommunications spectrum monitoring equipment, GRIFFIN is uniquely optimised for working with extremely weak GPS RF satellite signals, well below the ambient RF noise floor. By …

Drawing on over two decades of experience with the industry-standard survey and GIS field software, SurvPC, Carlson Software has introduced their Android-based field solution for construction layout.
Carlson Layout, a completely new program, represents a streamlined solution that allows fast, efficient layout capabilities for construction professionals using total stations or GPS receivers such as the Carlson CR+ series of …

Atmos UAV, the fast-growing Dutch drone manufacturer that develops high-end VTOL fixed-wing drones for surveying and mapping applications, has introduced a series of upgrades in Marlyn’s flight planning and control software, MarLynk. The new features will be available for new and existing users.
Amongst a long list of improvements, the two features which according to the …

Orolia Defense & Security has been granted security approval by SMC Production Corps. for BroadSim MNSA (Modernized Navstar Security Algorithm). BroadSim is the only software-defined GNSS simulator on the market to receive such approval, marking an industry first.
Additionally, Orolia delivered their first batch of MNSA M-Code to multiple customers in late August. BroadSim MNSA joins …

Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp. (NYSE: RTX), has been selected by Boeing to provide its proven NAV-4500 navigation receivers for the T-7A Red Hawk, the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) new advanced pilot training system in development by both Boeing and Saab.
This award builds on previously announced Collins Aerospace positions on the …

Bentley Systems, Incorporated has announced that its Acceleration Fund has invested in launching Virtuosity, a Bentley company. Virtuosity exclusively offers Virtuoso Subscriptions that bundle — with a Bentley infrastructure modeling, simulation, or construction application — the virtually delivered services of Virtuosity’s experts to accelerate and advance the success of an infrastructure practitioner.
Virtuoso Subscriptions are now available, at virtuosity.com, for …

Blue Marble Geographics® has announced the immediate availability of version 22 of the Global Mapper® and Lidar Module® Software Development Kits (SDK). The new releases incorporate many of the new features from the version 22 release of the desktop software, including a dramatically faster rendering of tiled online sources (especially in 3D), support for creating point, line, or …

SBG Systems is highly involved in supporting future engineers in their challenges and skill learning. The company has built a specific program to sponsor student teams participating in competitions as well as specific discount to Universities and Research Centers on inertial sensors and post-processing software.
SBG Systems accompanies future engineers in their challenges. The company offers …

The IHO has released a new edition of the Standards for Hydrographic surveys (S-44). In addition to surveys to support the safety of navigation, these standards can be adapted for oil and gas, renewable energies, dredging, geophysics, and geotechnics.
By clarifying the required levels of accuracy, they will help define the requirements in terms of technology, time and human …

The Mau Forest Complex in the Rift Valley in Kenya is the largest indigenous montane forest in East Africa. A hunter-gatherer community lives sustainably in the forest. However, encroachment and illegal allocation of the forest has left large parts cleared for settlement, agricultural use and logging.  This illegal activity has decimated more than a quarter …