As the world becomes more unpredictable, the case for Canada’s self-reliance in critical infrastructure is stronger than ever. One of the biggest gaps is in satellite navigation. Positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) have become core […]
GPS (Global Positioning System) – United States Operational Date: 1978 (Initial operational capability), 1995 (Full operational capability) GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) – Russia Operational Date: 1982 (Initial operational capability), 1996 (Full operational capability), 2011 […]
Dr. Calvin Klatt, PhD, Natural Resources Canada’s Director Canadian Geodetic Survey spoke on Positioning Lidar and the Canadian Geospatial Industry for the Future during a livestream presentation at Lidar CANEX 2023, on Tuesday, April 25, […]
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide services to billions of users around the world for various applications. This has resulted in the need for monitoring the performance of GNSS as part of the service provision […]
I recently read about the delay of China’s BeiDou mission and how, instead, China chose to launch a fifth satellite as part of their China High-resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS). This occurred in late August and […]
ESRI users will receive Sentinel-2 Image Services free Imagery from the Earth Observation Satellite Sentinel-2 is available through the Living Atlas, included with all ArcGIS online subscriptions, and will now be available to all ESRI ArcGIS […]
Since December 15, 2016, the new Galileo global satellite navigation system has been up and running. Unfortunately, there are some technical difficulties on the horizon, having to do with the clocks that are on […]
Let’s take a step back and have a look at what happened this year. To be honest, it was pretty hard selection. There are way too many things happening at this point around the world. […]