Following the Town Hall session held on 9 September 2024 by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability, Land Surveyors Board (LJT) and Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia (JUPEM), we are compelled to express our deep concerns regarding the amendment to the Licensed Land Surveyors Act 1958 (Akta Jurukur Tanah Berlesen 1958) and …

EISCAT Scientific Association has been providing access to high-latitude incoherent radar scattering facilities and other instrumentation for scientific, non-military purposes since the 1980ies.

This strategic partnership gives Neuraspace, a European-born global leader in space traffic management (STM), access to radar observation time for monitoring space objects. It will also provide advanced ionospheric and atmospheric measurement data, …

Chile and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Space Activities for Peaceful Purposes, to promote joint programs and projects in space matters within the framework of the State during the visit of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as reported by the Chilean government through its Presidential Press page.

The agreement was signed …

The Army released a Request for White Papers (RfWP) to develop new CMFF prototypes, enabling cost and space savings and quicker technology insertion into its combat vehicles and platforms.
CMFF—short for C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) CMOSS Mounted Form Factor—is the Army’s effort to more easily and rapidly equip ground vehicles and aviation platforms …

NextNav, a leader in next generation positioning, navigation, timing (PNT) and 3D geolocation, announced today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a public notice seeking comment on its innovative spectrum solution in the Lower 900 MHz band (902-928 MHz band).
On April 16, NextNav filed a rulemaking petition asking the FCC to open this proceeding to reconfigure …

CACI International Inc has announced that it was awarded a ten-year expertise contract valued at up to $450 million to support the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC), an operational center of U.S. Space Forces – Space and the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) center of excellence for navigation warfare (NAVWAR). CACI will provide 24/7 operations support, …

SkySat data has been leveraged by the government of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB), to enhance urban planning initiatives nationwide. In collaboration with Planet, Aetosky (formerly known as SkyMap Global) has implemented an advanced urban planning system.This turnkey solution integrates AI-enabled change detection technology with our high-resolution satellite imagery, exemplifying a …

The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) framework contract for upgrading the pan-European hydrological reference dataset EU-Hydro has now kicked off. The aim with the EU-Hydro suite of products is to provide a key reference suite for hydrological applications across Europe, while also still being a reference dataset for mapping within the Copernicus services. Several new …

The European Defense Fund (EDF) and the Ministries of Defense of Estonia and Finland have awarded a $6 million investment to Project BadB, a consortium led by KrattWorks, an Estonian defense technology company. The project focuses on developing advanced navigation solutions for land and aerial vehicles that operate independently of GNSS.

Project BadB aims to address …

Swift Navigation and Calian, have partnered to integrate precise positioning into location-based products across a variety of industries.

Autonomous vehicles and robots are complex and costly to build. Developers must integrate advanced hardware and software, do extensive testing and validation, maintain complex infrastructure, and calibrate diverse components and systems to ensure seamless compatibility. To address these challenges, Calian’s …