Averna, a developer of test solutions and services for electronics device-makers, has acquired 100 percent of U.S.-based Nexjen Systems for an undisclosed amount.
Nexjen Systems is a full-service integrator with expertise in mechanical test systems, RF automated test equipment, industrial control, measurement and monitoring systems, and automation control panels.
Nexjen Systems, a division of Jenkins Electric Company, was created in 2005 to service Jenkins Test & Measurement customers in the southeast region. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nexjen Systems is a National Instruments Alliance Partner.
Nexjen Systems’ president, Darren Lingafeldt, and vice president, Brian Esque, will continue to participate in the day-to-day operations and expansion plans as Averna employees.
“Averna is extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of Nexjen Systems and welcomes its employees to the team,” stated François Rainville, vice president of sales and marketing for Averna. “Nexjen Systems represents an exceptional opportunity to expand Averna’s presence in the Eastern USA in each of our major market segments as well as tap new resources, solutions, and expertise to offer an extended Test & Quality Solution portfolio.”
Darren Lingafeldt, president for Nexjen Systems, added, “We are delighted to join the Averna team and provide our long-standing customers with additional opportunities to deliver their test and quality projects worldwide as well as benefit from Averna’s renowned global support.”
Septentrio will showcase its latest GNSS systems and software solutions for GIS professionals at the 2016 Esri User Conference in San Diego, June 28-30, with a special focus on the rapidly growing market for drone-based aerial survey.
The AsteRx-m UAS by Septentrio.
At center stage will be Septentrio’s suite of products designed specifically for aerial surveys. They include the compact AsteRx-m UAS onboard GNSS receiver and GeoTagZ high-accuracy drone positioning software, which is optimized for automatic interface with Esri ARCGis and Drone2Map platforms.
“Demand for drone imagery is booming in the GIS marketplace as a fast and efficient alternative to ground-based surveys for applications such as mapping, photogrammetry, infrastructure inspection and natural disaster monitoring,” said Neil Vancans, vice president of Septentrio Americas. “To meet that demand, we are bringing to market a range of hardware and software solutions that will make it easier than ever for Esri users to capture, georeference, process and visualize drone-captured imagery.”
Septentrio is also introducing new firmware for its versatile NR2 GNSS receivers and the PinPoint-GIS utility software for terrestrial applications. NR2 V1.2.0 offers a host of new connectivity features, including direct dial-up, dynamic DNS, base-rover Wi-Fi point-to-point connection and other new features that will streamline field work. PinPoint-GIS has also been enhanced to provide seamless integration with Esri’s Collector for ArcGIS.
“Septentrio is pioneering the way by which Esri users collect data,” said Gustavo Lopez, product manager at Septentrio. “GeoTagZ and PinPoint-GIS bring more accuracy and flexibility into the field by combining the power of Septentrio’s GNSS products with the user-friendly interface of Collector for ArcGIS. From the air to your own device, you are guaranteed accuracy and reliability in your GNSS positioning by using GeoTagZ to georeference aerial photos and PinPoint-GIS to harness the power of GIS data.”
Esri User Conference attendees are invited to visit Booth 2633 for a first-hand look at Septentrio’s solutions for the full range of aerial and ground-based GNSS solutions for GIS, including the new-generation APS-3G multi-constellation RTK receiver, which was just introduced to the market.
u-blox’s has revealed its latest receiver, the miniature Untethered Dead Reckoning (UDR) EVA-M8E.
Measuring 7 millimeters by 7 millimeters, the EVA-M8E is designed to provide positioning for small-sized vehicle trackers. It provides untethered dead-reckoning performance without any electrical connection to the vehicle, using low-cost inertial sensors.
The EVA-M8E offers continuous positioning even before GNSS signals have been received, improves accuracy when GNSS signals are weak, and enables continuous low-latency positioning at 20 hertz to track highly dynamic events, the company said.
The EVA-M8E enables maximum flexibility in end-product design, requiring only a direct connection with the micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) inertial sensor and SQI Flash memory. It adapts automatically to installations anywhere within a vehicle. It supports very low stand-by current consumption.
UDR with adaptive signal strength compensation helps reduce the effects of small antenna and poor installations, which means the EVA-M8E can support extremely small after-market road-vehicle applications such as usage-based insurance and theft alarms.
Along with all u-blox M8 receivers, the EVA-M8E supports GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS and SBAS constellations. It further provides superior positioning accuracy in urban canyons, tunnels and parking garages.
“The EVA-M8E enables innovative products and services for high-volume after-market telematics,” said Andrew Miles, product manager of dead reckoning at u-blox. “It also complements the main highlight of the NEO-M8U UDR module, which is ease-of-use.”
The C93-M8E enables immediate evaluation of the u-blox’s Untethered Dead Reckoning technology in most vehicle applications.
EVA-M8E samples and the C93-M8E are available now. The modules will be in full production in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Hemisphere GNSS has announced the Eclipse P326 and P327, first in a line of new and refreshed low-power, high-precision, position and heading OEM boards. The boards are the latest addition to the company’s Eclipse series of products.
The multi-frequency, multi-GNSS Eclipse P326 and P327 are based on an innovative platform that integrates L-band and receives Atlas GNSS corrections on a single small board, the company said. Designed with this new platform, the overall cost, size, weight and power consumption of the P326 and P327 are significantly reduced.
The Hemisphere GNSS P326 board, a drop-in upgrade for many Hemisphere products.
The P326 and P327 support 394 channels and are scalable board solutions that offer centimeter-level accuracy in either single-frequency or full performance multi-frequency, multi-GNSS, Atlas-capable mode.
The small form factor (41 x 71 millimeters) 34-pin P326 module is a drop-in upgrade for many Hemisphere products. The P327 module (41 x 72 millimeters) is a drop-in upgrade for standard 20-pin modules from other manufacturers.
“Our continuous commitment to innovation in GNSS solutions allows our OEM partners to take their products to the next level,” said Jennifer Keenan, product marketing manager at Hemisphere GNSS. “With integrated L-band for Atlas support, future output rates of 50 Hz, and tracking of 394 channels in such a small form factor, our OEM boards have never been this appealing to system integrators.”
The latest technology platform enables simultaneous tracking of all satellite signals including GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo and QZSS, which the company said makes it a robust and reliable solution, while the updated power-management system efficiently governs the processor, memory and ASIC — important for multiple integration applications such as handheld and battery-powered devices.
Spirent Communications plc, a manufacturer of test equipment and services for improving positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system performance, today announced the new Spirent GSS6450 RF record and playback system.
RF record and playback systems capture the rich, real-world radio frequency environment and bring it into the lab. This enables receiver, system and application technology developers to optimize performance and robustness.
The GSS6450 uniquely combines high-resolution, 16-bit-wide band sampling in a highly portable unit measuring 22 x 20 x 7.3 centimeters and weighing only 2 kilograms. The high-resolution capability means it can capture a more detailed RF environment, including RF interference, complex atmospheric scintillation and space weather impacts on the GNSS signal, so users can improve receiver performance against these signals.
With its compact size, the GSS6450 is designed for capturing data in the field such as on foot or in vehicles, and easily portable when traveling.
“The GSS6450 offers high resolution in a small self-contained battery powered unit,” said Rahul Gupta, commercial segment lead for Spirent’s positioning division. “Until now, high-resolution record and playback systems have been mains powered and not designed for in-field use. The GSS6450 changes that, enabling a range of signal powers and characteristics to be sampled, recorded, brought into the lab and replayed.”
It offers a choice of 4-, 8- or 16-bit I/Q quantization, and a 10-, 30- or 50-MHz recording bandwidth. Up to four GNSS frequency bands can be recorded simultaneously, making the GSS6450 suitable for a wide range of applications, from testing new devices, such as wearable tech and unmanned vehicles, to chipset development using new GNSS frequencies, and high-end system test.
The 16-bit I/Q quantization option gives up to 96 dB of dynamic range, so it also can be used for interference analysis and improving receiver resilience to GPS jamming.
The GSS6450 is also capable of recording additional non-RF sources including inertial sensor outputs, dead reckoning, and up to four video streams. Long recordings are achieved using up to 4 terabytes of on-board storage. An additional 8 terabytes of RAID storage can be added externally.
Amazon and Walmart are making plans toward faster delivery of goods by drone, while TV dramas bring drones into their stories. And evaluation and test of technologies to protect airports and aircraft from unwanted drone incursions is picking up speed — while sense-and-avoid technology takes big steps forward toward integration of drones in the U.S. National Airspace.
Amazon and Walmart. Amazon is working hard to enable deliveries using drones — even advocating a “high-speed” transit zone 200-400 feet above ground level. Delivery drones can then zoom between warehouse and customer carrying goods so orders show up super quick, right on your doorstep.
Proposed Amazon drone-traffic-control system.
Drone-traffic-control would be automated — too many drones over too many cities to use conventional air-traffic control. With a buffer zone of 100ft above drone traffic and regular manned aircraft, and no-fly zones around airports, low speed localized drone-traffic would transit from the high speed area to the delivery point. And recreational model aircraft and other drones would be limited to flying in designated areas, or up to 200ft within drone-traffic-control segments. Amazon seems to indicate that the technology to enable all this is already pretty well there — it’s selling the concept and developing the regulations which will take the most time.
So not wanting to miss out on automation using drones, Walmart is now talking about using drones in warehouses to monitor stock levels. Inventory control currently uses manual stock-taking which takes up to a month for just one pass through a large facility — while a complete stock count is possible in one day using hi-res drone-camera data.
Walmart warehouse.
To keep pace with the competition for its on-line business, its essential for Walmart to avoid out-of-stock and overstocked items, and tight, rapid inventory control is the key. So drones in warehouses, and data analytics is where they are headed.
Walmart is already looking for approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to test home delivery using drones, so it may not be long before their drones get out of the warehouses and start testing how to fulfill online orders, too.
NCIS New Orleans. I was just thinking about this month’s drone update article while imitating a couch potato watching TV last evening, when NCIS New Orleans airs a show built around drones. A Predator pilot uses his day-time skills frying drone operations to search for a missing person. He buys an “undetectable drone” from a couple of drone geeks and makes aerial maps around his base. There were segments of simulated Predator operations, protests about overseas drone operations, an octocopter on the street in New Orleans and a DJI hobby drone flown on camera by a young boy. Other than a couple of technical errors, the show demonstrated just how much drones are now becoming part of our daily life, and how much the public is hearing about UAV technology.
And talking about undetectable drones — the FAA is using its Pathfinder Program to investigate a defensive system to protect airports from drone incursions. The FAA will evaluate a UK system known as Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) developed by Blighter Surveillance, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems— the system is claimed to be able to detect, track, disrupt and defeat drones.
AUDS system.
National Airspace. Increasingly concerned about reports of UAVs flying too close to an airport or to manned aircraft the FAA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been searching for a system that can defend against drones.
The AUDS system uses electronic scanning radar, precision infrared, daylight cameras and specialist video tracking software to detect and track even small drones up to six miles away. An inhibitor then disrupts the drone radio control signals. The whole sequence of detect, track, disrupt, defeat process typically only takes 8-15 seconds. And the system has already undergone over 400 hours of ‘live’ testing against small UAVs.
In addition, the MITRE Corporation — a technical service organization which supports several U.S. government agencies — is investigating products and technology to detect and stop drones, through a funded competition called “Countering UAS Challenge”. Eligible solutions need to detect small airborne UAS, and discern and interdict those that are perceived as threats, forcing them to be recovered safely with an intact payload. MITRE has now selected eight finalists who will compete in live flight tests in August to determine the winners of a $100,000 prize package.
So although efforts are underway to protect airports and aircraft from wayward drones, the bad press that drones have been getting recently might not all be appropriate. The FAA recently released drone sighting data for March this year which has now been analyzed in some detail by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA). AMA found that within the 582 drone sightings reported only 3.3% appear to involve near-misses or close calls.
Drone Sightings. Given that over a million drones were sold during the 2015 Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday season, it does appear that drone “sightings” are on the decline, and related reports to law enforcement also appear to be going down. So its possible that the FAA drone registration program, and the industry-FAA Know Before You Fly have positively improved the operation of drones by the public.
And while we’re all looking for ways to detect and deter drones from the ground, General Atomics (GA) has announced the successful operational testing of an airborne anti-collision radar system which includes GA’s Due Regard Radar (DRR) and Honeywell’s Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and Sensor Tracker. Tests were carried out aboard a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Guardian UAS, a maritime variant of the Predator B.
GA’s Due Regard Radar (DRR) drone.
During encounters with a Cessna fixed wing aircraft and a Blackhawk helicopter, safe separation was ensured between the UAV and the other traffic. Overland testing began at the GA facility near Palmdale, California, and concluded over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The tests confirmed that the pilot of the UAV had as a clear picture of surrounding air traffic as if he was flying in the cockpit of a manned aircraft. The tests also confirmed operational compatibility between the DRR radar and the maritime surface search radar carried by the Guardian UAV.
This is a significant step forward — albeit on a military drone — towards technologies which will ultimately enable integration of UAVs into the U.S. National Airspace. If we are also getting recreational operators to be more mindful of safely operating their hobby drones, and we can also prevent unwanted encroachment on airports and manned aircraft, then plans for delivery drones might also begin to make some progress.
TU-Automotive announced the 2016 winners of the TU-Automotive Awards at a reception in Novi, Michigan, held before the June 8-9 TU-Automotive Detroit trade show. The 10 winners were selected by 30 expert judges in 10 categories.
The award categories showcase specific aspects of the connected-car industry. The winners were selected by 30 top industry experts and judged based on the following criteria: innovation, industry engagement, user experience and market update.
“We launched the TU-Automotive Awards in December of last year with the objective of recognizing innovation and success across the globe from companies established and new,” said Ruthana Foulkes, managing director at TU-Automotive. “We received a record number of nominations this year — over 400 in total. And we would like to thank and congratulate every company for taking part in this process. The quality of entries as always was incredibly high.”
The 2016 TU-Automotive Awards winners are:
OEM of the year – Joint winners: Volvo Car Group and Ford Motor Company
Telematics Service Provider of the year – Wireless Car
Lochbridge, a provider of automotive connectivity services and solutions, is presenting and exhibiting at TU-Automotive Detroit 2016, held June 8-9 in Novi, Michigan.
Through the company’s keynote presentation, newly released maturity model and suite of connected solutions, Lochbridge will demonstrate how OEMs need connectivity to create a competitive edge.
Lochbridge’s keynote presentation, “Are Your Connected Cars Ahead of the Curve?,” will unveil a new model that maps connected-car investments to the core outcomes of connectivity — loyalty, differentiation, monetization and quality. Delivered by Raj Paul, vice president of IoT & Connected Services, the presentation will show how connected solutions — including predictive analytics, OTA updates and digital integration — can be leveraged to achieve these outcomes. Using this model, Paul will present an industry scorecard to highlight how well OEMs today are applying connected solutions to gain a competitive edge. Lochbridge’s keynote presentation is scheduled at 2 p.m. ET on June 9.
At TU-Automotive Detroit 2016, the Lochbridge team will also be showcasing a suite of new connected vehicle solutions at booth 204:
Risk Analytics: Demonstrating how usage-based insurance (UBI) progresses in parallel with the future world of urban mobility where drivers will carry a “lifetime-driving-score.” In collaboration with Harris Corporation integrating the Helios environmental intelligence platform, traditional driving behavior data, such as hard braking and accelerating, is combined with real-time contextual data, such as road conditions and environmental conditions.
App Certification Ecosystem (ACE 2.0): Providing a cloud based “virtual bench” that allows developers to bring new ideas to life faster while offering OEMs control of the application development, certification and support process.
IoT Device Management Platform: Enabling car manufacturers to extend new vehicle enhancements and manage recalls through a single solution. The solution provides OEMs a robust device management and Over-The-Air capability (OTA) supporting upgrades en masse or at an individual level.
Fleet Management: Integrating Oracle’s IoT Cloud Service platform, the new fleet concept demonstrates how device tracking, management and analytics can be deployed with rigor rapidly.
Hands-on demonstrations of all four connected solutions will be available at Lochbridge’s exhibit at booth 204.
“It’s no longer about developing new and cool features. Connected car solutions need to provide automakers a competitive edge in the market and help create a great customer experience,” said Romil Bahl, Chief Executive Officer, Lochbridge. “We are excited to debut our new model and a suite of solutions that will allow our automotive clients to unlock new opportunities, drive growth and create value.”
Google has announced that raw GNSS measurements will be available to apps in the Android N operating system, which will be released later this year. This means pseudoranges, dopplers and carrier phase will be obtainable from a phone or tablet computer.
The announcement came during Google’s I/O 2016, its three-day developer conference which was held May 18-20. The specific announcement occurs during a video summary of the conference, shown below.
“This is groundbreaking,” says Steve Malkos, a technical program manager at Google. “It is the first time in history that a mobile application will have access to the raw GPS measurements. This is beneficial to many, but especially the phone makers, because they can use these measurements to help them in their performance testing. And if you ever had a bright idea on how to use GPS measurements, now’s your time to shine.”
Malkos co-wrote “The Fashion Demands of Always-On: Ultra-Low-Power, High-Accuracy Location for Wearable GNSS Devices: From Host-Based to On-Chip” in the December 2014 issue of GPS World, and “Putting the (ultra-low) Power in GeoFence” in the November 2013 issue. His blog post in the upcoming July 2016 issue will include more information about the new Google development, including a hands-on demonstration course to be offered at ION-GNSS+ 2016 in Portland, Oregon in September.
Android N is the codename of an upcoming release of the Android operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 9, with factory images for current Nexus devices, as well as with the new Android Beta Program which allows supported devices to be upgraded directly to the Android N beta via over-the-air update. The stable release of the operating system is expected in mid-2016.
Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. It features technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. Google I/O began in 2008. The “I” and “O” stand for input/output, as well as the slogan “Innovation in the Open.”
It’s funny sometimes how things work out. I had just been preparing to take up in this column an issue raised last September at the ION-GNSS+ Plenary Session. Literally at the very moment I set pen to paper, notice of an extremely positive response to the problem arrived in my inbox. Hypercoincidental as it may be, market forces can and do work in mysterious ways, inexorably driving forward progress.
The issue arose during “lightning talks” as track chairs gave brief overviews of material to be presented in the following days. That’s when Paul McBurney tackled the gorillas.
A former eRide co-founder and now CEO of GopherHush Corp., a location analytics company, he chaired the Mass Market Application track. As he described market players — GNSS chip providers, sensor providers, indoor location providers, app providers and operating system (OS) providers — he made this statement: “The OS providers are the 800-pound gorillas that we have a hard time getting into this room. They have to support their fusion layers over a wide range of handsets and devices. They often end up competing with the apps makers they enable.”
A couple of those gorillas were in the room, in fact, and at least one more prominent GNSS figure has since joined their band. We’re talking Google and Apple, in case you hadn’t guessed.
McBurney’s point, as he later elaborated to me: “The OS manufacturers are really driving/owning the requirements/feature set of the mass-market chip providers. If they wanted carrier phase to drive RTK in the OS, everyone would have to step up to provide it, and these chip makers would lose their advantage in providing that to higher paying customers. If chip makers aren’t able to play, they are relegated to the crumbs of the rest of the market. Even car navigation is barely 1/10th of mobile. OS providers also dictate where/how sensor fusion/indoor location is performed. Sensor chip providers are in the same boat.”
I’d been thinking on and off about this situation since September, and as said was about to trumpet a call for the gorillas to come down out of the mist — or wherever they reside — to collaboratively and constructively join the PNT community. That’s when this message popped in through the electronic transom:
“Google I/O was this week and we announced we will open pseudoranges (raw GPS measurements) to application developers. If you want, I can do a blog post for you on this for the next magazine.”
Well, you bet I do! Look for it in the July issue. This is big news indeed. Check the website for a bit of elaboration in the meantime, and for the link to a YouTube video of the Google I/O announcement.
McBurney has further thoughts on this development, and you’ll see some of those next month as well. For now, he opines, “I was thinking that Google opening up pseudoranges shows that, while they wield huge power, they still understand the advantage of being open. A clear distinction from Apple.”
Tallysman, a manufacturer of high-performance GNSS antennas, has introduced two additions to its VeraPhase line of precision antennas.
The VP6300 is a triple-band antenna for reception of GPS L1/L2/L5, GLONASS G1/G2/G3, BeiDou B1/B2 and Galileo E1/E5a+b (1165MHz to 1254MHz + 1560MHz to 1610MHz).
The VP6200 is a dual-band antenna for reception of GPS L1/L2, GLONASS G1/G2, BeiDou B1/B2, Galileo E1 and the L-Band correction services (1195MHz to 1254MHz + 1525MHz to 1610MHz).
Both antennas have been calibrated by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and are designed for high-precision applications such as real-time kinematic (RTK), precise point positioning (PPP) and other applications where precision matters.
For OEM manufacturers, the antennas feature an available, uncommitted printed circuit board (PCB) for integration of custom electronics such as precision GNSS receivers.
According to Tallysman, these antennas fill out the VP6x00 product family with precision at a cost-effective price point. Both of these new products feature the same patented VeraPhase technology as in the VP6000 all-band reference antenna.
VeraPhase technology is proven to have the lowest axial ratios from horizon to horizon across all frequencies, very tight Phase Centre Variations (PCV), superior gain and extremely high efficiency.
The new antennas feature a highly linear LNA with robust pre-filtering to minimize desensing from high-level out-of-band signals such 700MHz LTE and other cellular band signals.
Size, weight and power designed for smaller unmanned platforms
MB-Two module by Trimble.
The MB-Two GNSS module delivers highly accurate GNSS-based heading plus pitch or roll in an advanced industry standard form-factor for system integrators. The module’s embedded Z-Blade GNSS technology uses all available dual-frequency GNSS signals equally, without any constellation preference, to deliver fast and stable centimeter-accurate position and heading information. The MB-Two is designed for a wide variety of applications such as unmanned, agriculture, automotive, marine and military systems. The MB-Two features an enhanced dual-core GNSS engine with 240 channels capable of tracking L1/L2 frequencies from the GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou constellations. The GNSS engine supports Trimble RTX correction services, including CenterPoint RTX and RangePoint RTX, delivered worldwide via L-Band satellite. The MB-Two combined with CenterPoint RTX delivers centimeter-level positioning without requiring a local base station or VRS network.
High performance, uninterrupted positioning for vehicle applications
The S1722DR8 GNSS dead-reckoning receiver, compared to a U.S. penny.
The S1722DR8 GNSS dead-reckoning receiver integrates a three-axis gyroscope/accelerometer and barometric pressure sensor with a GNSS receiver. Using wheel speed data from a vehicle, the S1722DR8 achieves 100-percent coverage. It can be flexibly mounted in any orientation, and does not have to be placed horizontally as do conventional dead-reckoning solutions that use a single-axis gyroscope. Its auto-calibration feature simplifies installation, while the short calibration time upon first use improves the user experience. The barometric pressure sensor provides highly accurate altitude information, which is useful for differentiating floor levels of multi-story parking garages or stacked highways.The S1722DR8 measures 17 x 22 millimeters. It offers continuous navigation even in GPS-signal-denied environments such as tunnels or underground parking lots.
The HX-DU1603D rover radio is an advanced, high-speed, Bluetooth-enabled wireless data link designed for GNSS/RTK (real-time kinematic) surveying and precise positioning. It is a lightweight, ruggedized UHF receiver for digital radio communications between 410 and 470 MHz in either 12.5- kHz or 25-kHz channels, which can be widely used in GNSS/RTK surveying and GNSS precise positioning systems. The HX-DU1603D is equipped with a Bluetooth transceiver for cable-free communications with external devices. It features an internal, rechargeable battery for ease of use and portability that allows long operational hours. Its display screen and buttons can be used to configuration parameters such as frequency, protocols, power display, serial port baud rate and air baud rate. By deploying the technology, users can instantly communicate with GNSS precise positioning receivers that share the same protocols throughout the world. The rover radio HX-DU1603D joins the line of Harxon products that include 25W base radio HX-DU8602T with simplex and 35W base radio HX-DU8608D with Duplex.
EyesMap3D generates accurate 3D models and point clouds, measured directly from images. It allows users to create high-density points clouds with textures achieving a realistic 3D model appearance. It is able to measure accurately on the images to generate true orthophotos, and geo-reference and scale the results. eyesMap3D users can use their cameras, mobile phone or camera drone to capture images. The program is compatible with most popular software packages on the market. The goal of maker eCapture is to allow the user to easily generate and work with 3D models and photogrammetric tools, while maintaining data quality.
Averna, a developer of test solutions and services for electronics device-makers, has acquired 100 percent of U.S.-based Nexjen Systems for an undisclosed amount.
It’s funny sometimes how things work out. I had just been preparing to take up in this column an issue raised last September at the ION-GNSS+ Plenary Session. Literally at the very moment I set pen to paper, notice of an extremely positive response to the problem arrived in my inbox. Hypercoincidental as it may be, market forces can and do work in mysterious ways, inexorably driving forward progress.
