Signal Sentry™ 1000, an Exelis product that detects and locates GPS interference sources, was deployed and tested during GPS jamming trials that occurred at UK in Aug’14. It was able to detect and geolocate stationary and moving jammers in both open and obstructed environments…

India will, for the first time, join hands with China to develop remote sensing satellites. Right from the initial days of its space programme in the 1960s, India had collaborated with the US, USSR (now Russia) and some European countries, but ISRO never had a tie-up with China….

The Russian Transport Ministry has been made the authorized federal body of executive authority for the creation, organization and ensuring functioning of the ERA-GLONASS automated information system. The large-scale ERA-GLONASS project was launched in Russia in 2011.

Software developers from around the world were recognized at the UN Climate Summit for their ingenuity in devising life-saving apps for use in reducing

NovAtel Inc. has added the IMU-ISA- 100C as an inertial measurement unit (IMU) option to its SPAN GNSS+INS line of positioning products. It is a high-performance, near navigationgrade IMU designed for platform stabilization, general-purpose navigation, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and ground mobile-mapping applications.

Tamil Nadu, India would be the fi rst state in the country to integrate GIS mapping with the education management information system to check on school drop…

The Russian government may turn noncommercial Partnership GLONASS, which will provide services on the basis of the state accident emergency response system ERA-GLONASS, into a joint stock company and sell a minor stake in it to attract investment…

China recently has successfully launched a remote-sensing satellite to carry out scientific experiments and provide early alerts about natural disasters. The Yaogan XX satellite…

Swift Navigation has developed a GPS module that comes at a fraction of a cost of competing chips with the same accuracy. To do so, it’s raised $2.6 million in funding to get its low-cost GPS modules embedded into a whole bunch of new devices. And while highly accurate GPS chips are already available for up to $10,000, Swift Navigation makes and sells its chips for about $500. http://techcrunch.com/

Headwall has launched a fully integrated remote sensing solution, combining hyperspectral and LiDAR sensors on a small Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). The UAV is a multi-rotor UAV (four wings with two props per wing).