The FAA is unlikely to meet its 2015 deadline for integrating UAVs into the National Airspace System, according to a report by the Department of Transportation’s Office.

Supergeo Technologies has announced the investment plan in advanced geographic network applications. The technology collaboration is conducted by Supergeo and the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. The academiaindustry project mainly focuses on the production of geographic network analysis module to increase the coverage of GIS applications…

NNG and Ayana Navigation Solutions have announced scalable navigation solutions for OEMs in India, thus proving that factory-fitted navigation is available for car owners of all categories. India is becoming a fast-growing market for affordable cars. Within the next six years globally, the share of total production accounted for by low-cost vehicles is set to climb to around 20 percent.

The Early Proof of Concept (EPOC) team has successfully tracked the encrypted Galileo E6-B and E6-C signals broadcast by Galileo satellites. As a result, the Commercial Service loop has been closed using both encrypted and non-encrypted signals.

Trimble has introduced a new version of its powerful office software suite used by surveyors and geospatial professionals for processing and analyzing geospatial data—Trimble® Business Center. Version 3.21 introduces new coordinate reference systems and a specialized Advanced Drafting module…

The Office for National Statistics (ONS), UK has used open source tools and GIS mapping software from Esri to create a single source of statistical data that can be easily…

Three model satellite stations based on China’s domestically made Beidou navigation system were shown to the public recently in an industrial estate…

The SPOT 7 Earth-observation satellite, designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space, was launched on 30 June by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle…

Sygic has just introduced the next generation of its GPS Navigation application, available on App Store. Update for Android users will be released in the second half of this year. The new native application, the result of three years’ worth of work, was completely remade from the ground up.

Tests conducted by Rx Networks and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) confirm that Galileo provides real added value to citizens using Location Based Services (LBS). When used in addition to GPS and/or GLONASS, Galileo proved to significantly improve accuracy in challenging environments.