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FAA Issues First Commercial UAS Authorization over Land
Like it or not, as a person who works with geospatial data, UAS (unmanned aerial systems such as drones and UAVs) are in your future. The upside of said technology for “quick and dirty” mapping is...
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Live Event Webinar Follow-up: Answering Your Questions from the 2014 Esri...
A few weeks ago at the Esri 2014 International User conference in San Diego, California, we conducted our first live event webinar from a Plexiglas booth sitting among many of the 14,000+ attendees...
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All Eyes on Galileo
The year 2014 is most certainly the Year of Galileo. After rising up from near elimination in 2008 due to much confusion about how to fund it, the European Union, that same year, decided to allocate...
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Which Industry Will Be the Largest Consumer of RTK Technology?
In September, I attended the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ conference in Tampa, Florida. Downtown Tampa, location of the 2014 ION GNSS+. The ION GNSS+ conference is a gathering where many of the...
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Trimble Dimensions Provides Focus on Range of Satellite-Based Correction...
The 2014 Trimble Dimensions User Conference is being held in Las Vegas this week. With more than 4,000 attendees, this year’s Trimble Dimensions User Conference was the largest ever and, I must say, a...
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What Happened to Piksi, the $995 RTK GNSS Receiver on Kickstarter?
A little more than a year ago, Swift Navigation started a Kickstarter campaign for a $995 RTK GNSS receiver named Piksi. The goal was to raise $14,000 for the project. By the time the Kickstarter...
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GNSS: The New GPS
First of all, on behalf of all of us here at GPS World magazine, allow me to welcome you to 2015. We wish you a healthy and prosperous new year! I’d like to start out the new year stating the obvious...
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What Exactly Is GPS NMEA Data?
You may have heard about “NMEA data” with respect to GPS. NMEA is an acronym for the National Marine Electronics Association. NMEA existed well before GPS was invented. According to the NMEA website,...
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Live Event Webinar Follow-up: Answering Your Questions from the 2014 Esri...
A few weeks ago at the Esri 2014 International User conference in San Diego, California, we conducted our first live event webinar from a Plexiglas booth sitting among many of the 14,000+ attendees...
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All Eyes on Galileo
The year 2014 is most certainly the Year of Galileo. After rising up from near elimination in 2008 due to much confusion about how to fund it, the European Union, that same year, decided to allocate...
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Which Industry Will Be the Largest Consumer of RTK Technology?
In September, I attended the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ conference in Tampa, Florida. Downtown Tampa, location of the 2014 ION GNSS+. Photo: GPS World The ION GNSS+ conference is a gathering...
View ArticleEric Gakstatter Gives InterGeo 2014 Synopsis
Eric Gakstatter, contributing editor for GPS World and Geospatial Solutions, gives an overview of InterGeo 2014, held October 7-9 in Berlin.
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Trimble Dimensions Provides Focus on Range of Satellite-Based Correction...
The 2014 Trimble Dimensions User Conference is being held in Las Vegas this week. Photo: Trimble With more than 4,000 attendees, this year’s Trimble Dimensions User Conference was the largest ever and,...
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What Happened to Piksi, the $995 RTK GNSS Receiver on Kickstarter?
Photo: Piksi A little more than a year ago, Swift Navigation started a Kickstarter campaign for a $995 RTK GNSS receiver named Piksi. The goal was to raise $14,000 for the project. By the time the...
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GNSS: The New GPS
First of all, on behalf of all of us here at GPS World magazine, allow me to welcome you to 2015. We wish you a healthy and prosperous new year! I’d like to start out the new year stating the obvious...
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What Exactly Is GPS NMEA Data?
You may have heard about “NMEA data” with respect to GPS. NMEA is an acronym for the National Marine Electronics Association. NMEA existed well before GPS was invented. According to the NMEA website,...
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Going beyond GPS is the new order of the day
The Trimble Dimensions conference. Times have changed, and the technology landscape is much, much different today than it was as recently as ten years ago when GPS was the driving-force technology for...
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How to use structure from motion to produce 3D models
Structure from motion (SfM) is a photogrammetric range imaging technique for estimating three-dimensional structures from two-dimensional image sequences that may be coupled with local motion signals,...
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3D GNSS data and the GEOID
As high-precision GNSS horizontal and vertical data becomes less expensive to collect, greater attention must be paid when reconciling vertical datasets. In 2013, I wrote two articles entitled...
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Esri cultivates mobile GIS apps
I’ve attended a couple of Esri events these past couple of months. They are on the move. For a big software company (est. $1 billion in annual revenues), they are reasonably nimble. Of course, if...
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