Category Archives: GNSS/Location Tech
Stepping Down
Surveyors sorry to see NSPS executive director Curt Sumner retire As word filters throughout the surveying community that National Society of Professional Surveyors executive director Curt Sumner is stepping down, accolades for the job he’s done over more than two decades in the position come pouring in. “Curt has been a friend and colleague for...
Italy and NASA to Land First GNSS Receiver on the Moon
A 2023 lander in the moon’s Mare Crisium will carry the first GNSS receiver to that planet’s surface: the Navigation Early Investigation on Lunar surface (NEIL) receiver with software-defined radio (SDR) technology. The receiver will spring from agreements between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian...
Geospatial Adventure, eh?
Racing the weather to establish a second-order control network in the Great White North in the early days of GPS
Out to Sea with Dr. Larry Mayer
Long-time oceanographer shares insights about mapping the ocean floor and the innovative technology needed to do it.
How Deep Learning For Remote Sensing Produces Quicker, Higher-Quality Results
As the volume, velocity, and variety of the data generated to address worldwide geospatial needs has steadily grown, advances in the systems and algorithms needed to produce spatial and temporal resolution data have not kept pace.
The Growing Use of Drones… In Crime Scene Investigation
With the sky darkening over an empty parking lot by the railroad tracks in Las Vegas, Nevada, the group of law enforcement professionals leaned in to hear Douglas Spotted Eagle, founder and director of educational programming at Sundance Media Group and a well-known industry figure, explain how drones would be used to capture the simulated...