The SOF offers a number of benefits for its users. The SOF XML format is well understood and defined by schema, allowing programmers to write code that can interpret the SOF without misunderstanding

John W. Lavrakas

President, Advanced Research Corporation, Newport, Oregon, USA

Background
In 1999, United States Space Command stood up the GPS Operations Center (GPSOC), a GPS …

The impact of COVID-19 is most dramatic in the slow down of workforce training, education, and research at universities

Chris Rizos

Emeritus Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a co-director of the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Lab at UNSW. Chris is presidentelect of the International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG)

At first …

China launches last BeiDou satellite
China recently launched the last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite, carried by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, is the 30th BDS-3 satellite and the 55th of the whole BeiDou satellite family. The launch marked …

Availability of Ground Control Points for surveying and engineering projects is a major challenge in developing countries including Nigeria…

Today, the world is experiencing a jump in GNSS/RNSS capabilities and services, advancing beyond the decades-long monopoly of GPS, and to some extent GLONASS, in providing worldwide positioning and timing services.

“All of my life I’ve spent trying to learn how to produce living structure in the world. That means towns, streets, buildings, rooms, gardens, places which are themselves living or alive…

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is one of the best finding of the twenty century world technologies…

As Coordinates readers, you appreciate the value of knowing where you are and what time it is, along with the best route to your destination…

Remote sensing relies on hardware, software and workflow processes to deliver consistent and useful imaging products for a broad range of applications…

As the use of ADAS and Autonomous Driving technology grows in automotive, so does the dependency on navigation and safety technologies that accommodate it. One of the core technologies used for navigation is GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite System.