Articles in the GNSS Category

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Dec 2020 | No Comment

The Horizon 2020 (H2020) GREENPATROL project has developed an autonomous robotic solution that has the ability to navigate inside greenhouses while performing early pest detection and control tasks. This paper describes the main developments…

Dec 2020 | No Comment

In the first phase of the Covid-19 crisis, many countries of the European Union (EU) introduced severe measures limiting the free movement of persons and goods across borders. The objective of these measures was the contention of the spreading of the virus…

Sep 2020 | No Comment

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 …

Sep 2020 | No Comment

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 …

Jul 2020 | No Comment

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 …

Jun 2020 | No Comment

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

May 2020 | No Comment

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.

Mar 2020 | One Comment

“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…

Feb 2020 | No Comment

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

Feb 2020 | No Comment

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…