NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has been granted temporary authorisation by the European Space Agency (ESA) to sell Galileo/Giove-A receivers to a limited number of specified companies, making NovAtel one of the...

Altus Positioning Systems (CA, USA) has launched the APS-3 GNSS Surveying receiver. Based around Septentrio's AsteRx2 RTK board the APS-3 offers both GPS and Glonass RTK in a highly flexible...

During the Intergeo 2006, Trimble (Germany) has announced they will launch the Trimble VRS service for Germany in December. The commercial subscription service will provide surveyors, civil engineers and geospatial...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has announced IPAS PPP, a new post processing software package within the IPAS product family. It provides high accuracy position and velocity determination using the data from...

The classical geodesist’ dream of a dense, accurate, reliable and homogeneous countrywide levelling control network is a luxury even for the richest countries and will probably remain a dream. Prior...

Topcon Europe Positioning (The Netherlands) has released the GMS-2 Pro, an integrated distance meter, offset measurement, an image height/width measurement and a high level of mobility in the well known...

Canada’s Differential GPS (CDGPS) correction service has received a timely commitment from federal, provincial and territorial government sponsors to continue its nation-wide broadcasts improving GPS accuracy until at least 2010....

The beginning of 2008 - the January issue of GIM International is already lying on your desk- and more than a thousand men and women from nearly fifty countries are...

The fifth Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2007 took place from 6th to 8th March 2007 in the famous ‘Residenz München’, Munich, Germany. The summit was established as the European and...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has appointed Colin Maclellan into the newly created position of vice president and general manager. Coincident with Mr. Maclellan’s appointment, NovAtel executives Farlin Halsey and Graham Purves...