All you need to know about the performance of Europe’s Global Navigation Satellite System
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) provide services to billions of users around the world for various applications. This has resulted…
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Alt PNT: Don’t Forget the Time
Exploring the esoteric world of precision timing by “following the White Rabbit”. By Gavin Schrock, PLS While most in the…
Accuracy and precision [Part I] : Are you being rigorous with your data?
This article is the first part of a series about accuracy and precision, which briefly covers common factors that affect…
Application of Weights in Surveying Measurements
We all know that some measurements are better than others, even in the same survey. For example, if we are…
Canadian Geospatial Briefing June 21st, 2021: Apple Maps Cars; Population growth and Housing issues; Elizabeth Cannon’s honorary degree; Saskatchewan’s growing opioid deaths maps; Modernizing COMPSTAT at the Vancouver Police Dept.
Here’s Where Apple Maps Cars are Collecting Images in Canada this Summer Two years ago, a fleet of Apple Maps…
Why Does New GNSS Gear Seem So Great?
Some of the most profound gains in the performance of high-precision GNSS have come in just the past few years—no…
Progress in Addressing GPS/GNSS Vulnerabilities
An overreliance on GPS/GNSS for positioning, navigation and timing applications underscores key vulnerabilities. Defense, security, safety, commerce, and critical infrastructure…
GeoVerra makes a significant investment in new equipment, providing the most up-to-date technology for its clients.
Edmonton, AB (November 16, 2020) – At the beginning of November, GeoVerra took possession of over 100 pieces of new Trimble…
Global Positioning System (GPS): How does it Work?
I recently read about the delay of China’s BeiDou mission and how, instead, China chose to launch a fifth satellite…
GeoIgnite 2020 Video: Canadian Geodetic Survey: Canada’s response to United States’ change of reference frame.
In this presentation, Calvin Klatt talks about how the U.S. reference system modernization effort will replace the North American Datum…
Your International Geospatial Briefing for August 31st: Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2; Everest survey succeeds; Underwater heat blob growing in the Arctic; China Launches Beidou; Amazonian Tribe Applies Location Intelligence
Trimble and Totalmobile Awarded HS2 Contract from Civil Engineering Contractor EKFB Trimble and Totalmobile have developed the first cloud-based vehicle…
Elexicon Energy and Quantum Spatial Canada Pilot Comprehensive Mobile Mapping Project
Elexicon Energy (Elexicon) was formed in April 2019 by the merger of Veridian Connections and Whitby Hydro Electric Corporation. Owned…
