Applanix announces POSPac Cloud for mobile mapping
Applanix, a Trimble Company, has introduced its POSPac Cloud software for directly georeferencing data collected from cameras, LiDAR, multi-beam sonar and other sensors on mobile platforms. An online version of Applanix’ industry leading GNSS-Aided Inertial POSPac MMS™ post-processing desktop software, POSPac Cloud is optimized for air, land and …

Mouser – Tracker enables GPS-based IoT projects
Mouser is the Wio Tracker from Seeed Studio. It is an open source gateway that allows for faster GPS solutions for the IoT by tracking nearly any moving thing and uploading that data wirelessly. For added speed and flexibility, the tracker features 99 GNSS receiver channels for quicker …

Factory-Fit Machine Control Solution for Sumitomo Excavators by Trimble
Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo) has announced selection of Trimble as Sumitomo’s preferred technology provider for machine control solutions. Sumitomo will offer the Trimble® Earthworks Grade Control Platform for Excavators as a factory-fit machine control solution for the Japanese market.
Sumitomo will offer two options …

A Japanese H-2A rocket launched Japan’s third Michibiki satellite to join a constellation of navigation aids to improve positioning services across the country…

EarthSense to provide Real Time Air Quality Monitoring
EarthSense Systems is equipping commercial delivery vehicles with air pollution sensors as part of a project to test the performance and emissions of low-carbon lorries. Using their state-of-the-art Zephyr air quality monitoring sensors, it will collect real-time pollution measurements to help develop zero-emission running strategies for a …

Icaros and Agrowing announce Integrated Drone product
Icaros Inc., a leading provider of aerial imaging software, and Agrowing, a leading supplier of multispectral sensors and analytics software, have announced an integrated drone product that bundles Icaros’ OneButton software into Agrowing’s solution stack, automating the entire workflow from image capture through generation of fully indexed orthomosaic …

SpaceX notches 15th landing after launching overdue Formosat-5
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched a long-delayed remote sensing satellite for the government of Taiwan Aug. 24, executing another first stage landing in the process. Formosat-5 was built by Taiwan’s space agency, the National Space Organization, known by the acronym NSPO. The 450-kilogram spacecraft was the …

Russia, China to set up pilot zone to test national navigation systems
Russia and China are set to establish a pilot zone to test the Russian GLONASS and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation systems on passenger and freight transportation routes going through Kraskino – Hunchun and Poltavka – Dongning checkpoints on the border in Russia’s Primorsky …

China plans space-based, solarpowered telecom drones: Report
A research institute affiliated with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp is developing the project “Feiyun,” which means “flying cloud,” the Global Times reported, citing another report in the Science and Technology Daily. The network will be based in “near space”, it said, adding the system will be …

Google’s Waze launches navigation app for car dashboards
Waze is bringing its navigation and traffic monitoring app to more than 100 models of car as it expands its satnav software beyond smartphones.
The app will be available in cars that use Android Auto, Google’s dashboard software, including models from BMW, Vauxhall, Renault, Ford and Volkswagen …