GPS drone (UAS) with GoPro camera; Creative Commons image courtesy Don McCullough
This week in GPS is a weekly link roundup of (mostly) GPS related odds and ends, from GPS Tracklog and other places around the Web. This week’s featured image is of a drone, because it’s been a rather busy week in the world of drones. Read some of the headlines for this, and other news, below!
From GPS Tracklog
Satellite Stuff
- UK could be shut out of super-accurate EU GPS system it helped to build
- Lockheed Hit by U.S. Air Force for More GPS III Satellite Flaws
- KU Leuven: Galileo signals will become more difficult to falsify
- Galileo Commercial Service Implementing Decision enters into force
- Emergency 112 calls in Europe saving lives with GNSS
Garmin
- Garmin opens regional HQ overseas
- EASA approves Garmin G5 electronic flight instrument for certificated aircraft in Europe
TomTom
Geocaching
GPS in the news
- Sheriff Warns Highway 50 GPS Detours May Lead To Worse Conditions
- Can GPS or tire spikes stop wrong-way drivers?
- GPS snow plow tracking possible, but not available in RI
- Suspect in killing of Ohio State student was being monitored by GPS, reports say
- GPS Leads Deputies to Stolen Semi in Helendale
The business of GPS
- The changing face of defense PNT
- GPSdome Conducted Successful Tests of its GPS Protection Against Jamming and Spoofing
- Geoscience Australia, Lockheed collaborate on multi-GNSS SBAS research
Drones
- Amazon Plans to Drop Packages With Parachutes From Drones
- Dubai to launch passenger-carrying taxi drones that fly themselves at 1,000 ft
- Verizon just acquired a drone company
- House OKs new rules on use of drones
- France is now using golden eagles to take down rogue drones
- Robot bees vs real bees – why tiny drones can’t compete with the real thing
- Kenya has approved the commercial use of drones
Going mobile
- Strava and Runkeeper bring GPS tracking to Android Wear 2.0
- Dateline’s Keith Morrison’s voice now on GPS for Waze App
- Garmin Connect Mobile app for Windows 10 updated with great new features
Just Geo
- Darwin The Geologist In Galápagos
- Trump’s border wall could face a geology problem
- Scotland’s geology will not allow for successful fracking, says academic
- Syracuse University professor makes major impact with research about how oxygen came to Earth’s atmosphere
- Female pioneers in geology
- Nagpur in race for centre of excellence in geology exploration and mining
- Geology students, mine workers hold rally at DENR office
