LONDON - Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced commercial availability of the SL869-3DR, a GNSS module for global use which leverages information from internal gyros, accelerometers and a barometric pressure sensor to perform dead...
Trimble Launches New Portfolio of Wireless IoT Sensors for Water Monitoring
NEW ORLEANS - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today its Telog® 41 Series of wireless, battery-powered sensors for water monitoring applications. These new Internet of Things (IoT) sensors use innovative, low-power, Long-Range (LoRa® technology) wireless...
UTC Aerospace Systems Awarded Study Contract For Integrating MS-177 Sensor with the USAF Distributed Common Ground System
FARNBOROUGH, England, July 11, 2016 — UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), announced the award of a study contract to complete the integration of its MS-177 sensor system into the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Distributed Common Ground...
Better Long-Range Sensors a Goal of Fundamental Optics Experiments
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A pair of University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers aim to explore fundamental properties of infrasonic optical sensors that could make them more sensitive and accurate over long distances. The results of their research, which...
Sentinel-3A Continues to Impress
The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s in store for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The latest images, which feature Europe and Antarctica, come from the sensor that records...
VectorNav Technologies Introduces VN-360 GPS-Compass
DALLAS — VectorNav Technologies introduced today the VN-360 GPS-Compass heading and position sensor. The VN-360 is an OEM GPS-Compass module that provides an accurate, True North heading solution for systems integrators seeking a reliable alternative to...
ASI Expands Large-Area LiDAR Capabilities with Investment in Leica Geosystems Sensors
NORCROSS, GA, February 2, 2016 — Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Aerial Services, Inc. (ASI), a privately owned small business based in Cedar Falls, IA, has purchased a Leica ALS70-HP LiDAR sensor co-mounted with a four-band, 80 megapixel RCD30 imaging...
IGI Launches a New Version of its AEROoffice & TERRAoffice with Several New Handy Features
Kreuztal, January 20, 2016 — IGI launches the new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice software in version 5.4.50. This new AEROoffice & TERRAoffice version can do coverage maps for scanning sensors. But there is more. For example, the sensor footprint can be...
Sensor Spotlight: senseFly RTK Brings Precision to UAS Platform
Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) manufacturer senseFly was the first to bring RTK survey-grade mapping to a UAS platform with its fixed-wing senseFly eBee RTK in June 2014. This platform is capable of three-centimeter accuracy without the need for ground-control points,...
Specim Releases First Professional Quality Hyperspectral Sensor Range AisaKESTREL for UAV’s
September 15, 2015 — Specim releases first professional quality hyperspectral sensor range, intended for UAV's and other platforms of limited payload size, at InterGEO 2015. AisaKESTREL pushbrooming hyperspectral sensor systems are built to the same strictest data...
