Volatus Aerospace has completed the first flight tests of its V-Cortex AI Flight Controller and Autonomy Operating System, demonstrating that an aircraft equipped with the Canadian-developed platform can maintain flight without GNSS, external navigation sensors,…
RIEGL has introduced the miniVUX-4UAV, a lightweight airborne LiDAR scanner designed for UAV-based surveying, topographic mapping, and high-resolution 3D data collection. The new sensor made its debut at INTERGEO 2026 in Munich, Germany, expanding the…
India’s space agency, ISRO, is preparing to launch the NVS-03 navigation satellite between October 15 and 20, 2026, as it works to restore the positioning capabilities of its NavIC satellite navigation system. The spacecraft will…
Trimble has introduced a new generation of high-precision OEM GNSS receivers built around its Maxwell 8 architecture, adding stronger protection against jamming and spoofing, significantly more processing power, improved vibration tolerance and hardware designed with…
Elecrow has introduced the ThinkNode M9, a standalone LoRa mesh communication terminal built around an ESP32-S3 processor and Semtech LR1110 transceiver, combining off-grid messaging, multi-constellation GNSS positioning and a physical QWERTY keyboard in a phone-sized…
Trimble has launched the ST30 smart target, a new surveying device that combines a 360-degree prism, inertial measurement unit, GNSS receiver and automatic rod-height measurement in a single field system. Announced September 15, 2026, during…
Leica Geosystems has launched the new Leica GS11 GNSS smart antenna alongside its Leica X-PAD surveying portfolio, adding dual-camera visual surveying, augmented reality stakeout, image-based point measurement and in-field verification to a receiver designed for…
Apple has quietly removed GLONASS support from the Apple Watch Ultra 4, reducing the number of supported global and regional satellite navigation systems while retaining the dual-frequency positioning architecture that has become one of the…
Trimble Geospatial has started teasing a new hardware launch scheduled for September 15, 2026, using a campaign built around the phrase “Something Smarter Is Coming” and close-up images that reveal very little about the device…
Topcon has released MAGNET Office 2026.0 and MAGNET Field 2026.0, bringing its professional surveying software back under the MAGNET name while adding AI assistance, voice commands, ArcGIS Online connectivity and new GNSS diagnostic tools. The…
OSCP has introduced NavigationGate, a compact inertial navigation processing unit designed to keep vehicles, aircraft and autonomous platforms navigating when GNSS positioning becomes degraded, jammed or completely unavailable. The Montreal-based inertial sensor manufacturer opened pre-orders…
High-precision GNSS is finding a new role in vehicle crash reconstruction, where centimeter-level positioning can determine how accurately investigators document debris, tire marks, road features and other evidence before a scene changes or disappears. Origin…