Septentrio is demonstrating a Galileo receiver providing position, velocity and time information (PVT) based on the European Galileo Satellite signals, at the ION GNSS conference in Fort Worth Texas. This...

Hydrographers require accurate three-dimensional positions of the survey vessel and typically use differing methods for resolving the horizontal and vertical components. GNSS, such as the Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS),...

Articles selected for this issue give a taste of the present day ‘surveyor’s world’ (this issue’s theme) - a world which is evolving. One of the co-authors of “Refloating the...

Veripos has introduced an enhancement to its services by increasing transmission power from Inmarsat's Indian Ocean Region satellite, resulting in fully redundant high-power delivery of GNSS augmentation data throughout its...

Veripos has expanded its operations with the establishment of a base in Singapore as a focal point for meeting rapidly growing user requirements for its services throughout Asia-Pacific regions. The...

The theme of the 2008 FIG Working Week is "Integrating Generations", which addresses many of the issues facing surveyors in the next years. These include questions related to the need...

Over the last twenty years Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have revolutionised navigation. Integrated devices are capable of providing time, position, height, direction, heave and attitude, to accuracy of a...

Trimble will launch its Trimble VRS Now service for Germany in December. The commercial subscription service will provide surveyors, civil engineers and geospatial professionals with instant access to Real-Time Kinematic...

On behalf of the entire Hydro international team, may I wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year. And to those readers who celebrate the start of a new year...

Satellite positioning has solved many positioning problems/aspects in our profession, and developments resulting in, for example, higher accuracy are not at an end yet: we look forward to GPS and...