The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded BAE Systems an £89 million contract to enhance front-line connectivity for military personnel, linking small reconnaissance drones, combat vehicles, fighter jets, aircraft carriers and military commands.
Modern battles are fought across land, sea, air, space, cyber and electronic warfare. Rapidly evolving technologies mean each domain is highly contested so …

Hexagon has announced a landmark agreement with leading diversified mining company Mineral Resources (MinRes) to provide an autonomous haulage solution for a fleet of 120 fully autonomous road trains in Australia, which will transform safety, productivity and sustainability in the region. 

The world-first, fully autonomous road trains are a full-site, truck-agnostic solution. The addition of unmanned …

Volume XIX, Issue 9, September 2023

Testing the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) at a High Latitude and under Ionospheric Scintillation

Melania Susi, Daniele Borio, Althaf Azeez, Jihye Park, Kinga Wc˛ zka and Ignacio …

Says Sherman Lo, President of the Institute of Navigation (ION). He shares his views on a range of issues in an interview with Coordinates

Sherman Lo

Senior research engineer at the Stanford GPS Laboratory. He also is executive director of the Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time (SCPNT) and a Stanford instructor. His research work focuses …

October 2023

FIG COMMISSION 7 Annual Meeting 2023

2-4 October
The Netherlands
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Integration between RIEGL and StriekAir engineering
The renowned VUX-12023 laser scanner from RIEGL has been seamlessly integrated into the innovative VTOL CarryAir by StriekAir engineering GmbH from Germany. During its inaugural flight, this remarkable duo successfully captured accurate data of the ground structure.
The RIEGL VUX-12023 laser scanner …

Hydrogen fuel storage solution for UAVs
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) embarked on a year-long collaboration with Honeywell Aerospace in 2023 to prototype and support the commercialization of a novel cartridge-based hydrogen fuel storage solution for UAVs. The project, Fuel Additives for Solid Hydrogen (FLASH) …

Tirupati, India Smart City Project
NEC Corporation India has launched the latest Smart City project in Tirupati, India.
It is implementing ICT solutions throughout the city and setting up a City Operations Centre (COC) in Tirupati. The ICT solutions, including integrated services and a Unified Command and Control Centre, …

In this article, the results obtained assessing the Galileo HAS performance at high latitudes in a period of intense ionospheric activity during the ongoing 25th solar cycle are presented

Melania Susi

Ph.D. in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy from the University of Nottingham, UK, where she was also a Marie Curie fellow. After being a scientific technical …

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-create data-driven innovations in agriculture and food systems to support smallholder farmers. Under this MoU, both organizations will work to improve the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers by sharing open-source data …