Category Archives: GNSS/Location Tech
Elena Kruzhkova
Engineering Manager at Topcon Positioning Systems “What is the latest firmware?” is a refrain many in the high-precision positioning community are quite familiar with. For GNSS equipment, firmware is what keeps your equipment current with changes in constellations and orbit and clock resources, but more often it’s new developments and algorithms (you may be benefitting...
Sandy Kennedy
Director and Chief Engineer for Core Cards at Novatel The heart and soul of high-precision GNSS equipment—for survey rovers, precision agriculture and machine guidance, defense, airborne and mobile mapping systems, etc.—are the receiver boards and, specifically, the core cards. For NovAtel, a major producer of standalone and OEM GNSS hardware, components, and solutions, the development...
Bruno Bougard
R&D Director at Septentrio GNSS technologies reach deep into nearly every aspect of our lives, from consumer to commercial to scientific—and no segments of GNSS markets are more technically demanding than high-precision OEM customers and scientific communities. Bruno Bougard is a very capable young fellow who, along with his amazing team at Septentrio (one of...
Ryan Gariepy
Ryan Gariepy – CTO, Clearpath Robotics – Canada We learned about Ryan and his company, Clearpath Robotics, while researching developments in robotics for our June 2015 cover story. Robotics is no longer just about the mechanics of propulsion and control of payload devices; navigation, intelligent and autonomous navigation, and proximity sensing and feature recognition are where...
Sid Nair
Sid Nair – Senior Director, Marketing and Product Management, Teletrac-Navman – California, USA There’s a lot of talk about “the internet of things,” or IoT, but of great and lasting value is “the internet of where things are”—how better to manage assets and processes spatially. There are all sorts of ideas of how to make...
Shannon Hixon
Shannon Paul Hixon – Product Manager (High End) NAFTA, Leica Geosystems Inc. – Colorado, USA If you are a customer of Leica surveying products, you probably know the name Shannon Hixon well; he has often been the go-to guy for advanced end-user inquiries, but more recently Shannon has moved into product management. Shannon graduated from...