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Weekly News Links: 10/30/2020

See the New Riegl VUX-120 Lidar Sensor YellowScan Launches Updated Mapper Product MGISS Helps Urban Surveyors with Ultimate Accuracy The Future of LiDAR is Critical to the Future of Our World China Experiencing a Drone ‘Revolution’ in Agriculture The Dashcam Built for Mapmaking Swift Navigation’s Production-Grade SSR Service is Now Available Across Two Continents

Fergus Noble

Co-founder & CTO, Swift Navigation California, USA The three co-founders of Swift Navigation—Colin Beighley, Timothy Harris, and Fergus Noble—all are under forty years old and all deserve a place in our Outlook selection. By using the highly scientific method of a series of coin flips, we have chosen to profile Fergus Noble, but actually this...

The Rise of Value-packed RTK

Barriers are being removed for adaptable and inexpensive, high-precision GNSS. Many of you may be familiar with traditional base-rover applications for RTK such as surveying and mapping—with precision that typically comes with a large price tag. However, Swift Navigation provides a multi-frequency, multi-constellation, fully RTK-capable GNSS receiver called the Piksi Multi with a smaller price...

Dynamic Environment Data Collection

Swift Navigation’s Piksi® Multi is a multi-band, multi-constellation GNSS receiver that supports GPS L1/L2, GLONASS G1/G2, BeiDou B1/B2 and Galileo E1/E5b for RTK measurements and positioning and SBAS for robust sub-meter positioning in non-RTK mode. Critical to the accuracy of—and continuous improvements to—Swift’s receivers is ongoing testing in varying dynamic environments and conditions. This testing...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 5/12/17

MKS’ Ophir® Business Unit Introduces Smallest, Lightest Weight, Continuous Zoom Lens for Drones & UAVs Swift Navigation and Carnegie Robotics Announce Duro, a Ruggedized Version of Piksi Multi Announcing UgCS Mapper – in-field mapping software requiring no internet connection Septentrio launches AsteRx-m2 OEM GNSS Receiver Alta Devices Adds Solar Tech to Drones/UAV’s to Extend Flight...

xyHt News Links: 10/14/16

Delair-Tech Announces Acquisition of Trimble’s US drone company Applanix Announces POSPac MMS 8 Featuring Post-Processed Trimble CenterPoint RTX Service for High-Accuracy Mobile Mapping Brand-new Optech Polaris terrestrial laser scanner launches at INTERGEO 2016 Teledyne Optech unveils the ultra-light Maverick for mobile asset mapping Orbit GT unveils Mobile Mapping Feature Extraction v17 features microdrones™ Offers Full...