UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has released its GNSS-denied navigation kit designed to offer navigation capabilities in challenging environments.

The kit combines UAV Navigation’s attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), the POLAR-300, with its Visual Navigation System, the VNS01, designed to offer unmatched dead reckoning navigation capabilities with minimal drift.

The technology offers users improved navigational accuracy, with error rates …

Iridium Communications Inc. has announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Satelles, Inc., the leader in highly secure satellite-based time and location services that complement and protect GPS and other GNSS-reliant systems. The service, named Satellite Time and Location (STL), is an easy-to-adopt, highly secure solution that increases the efficiency and reliability of timing …

CHC Navigation has launched the RS10, an innovative and affordable handheld SLAM LiDAR laser scanner integrated with a full RTK GNSS receiver.
Designed to improve efficiency across a wide range of mapping and surveying applications, the RS10 provides professionals with a versatile, all-in-one tool for capturing rich 3D geospatial data in both outdoor and indoor environments.
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Scientific Systems, an industry leader in advanced artificial intelligence for defense applications, has announced that it is continuing development of ImageNav™, the company’s non-GPS, image-based, precision navigation software. The company has recently extended and demonstrated its image-based solution during flight operations ranging from 25,000 feet down to 200 feet. ImageNav has been developed for over …

SimActive Inc. has announced the use of its Correlator3D™ product with multi-camera drone payloads for improved 3D mapping. The software allows users to import oblique and nadir camera configurations to develop better 3D mapping products.

Multi-camera payloads on drones, such as the Oblique D2M from Quantum-Systems, are enabling drone mappers to texturize the sides of buildings …