A geo window on Africa
Image: Esri/Joint Research Centre/CARTO Since 1990, the urban population of Africa has doubled, with more than 80 percent of its denizens living in urban areas. Urbanization can contribute to...
View ArticleSeen & Heard: Bats, buses and cows
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. Photo: Adrià López-Baucells Batman...
View ArticleWingcopter wins World Bank drone challenge for emergency delivery
German drone manufacturer wins two prizes at renowned Lake Kivu Challenge in Rwanda On May 5, the organizing committee of the Lake Kivu Challenge announced the results and named Wingcopter the winner...
View ArticleASECNA, Thales provide African early SBAS open service
Service opens a new era of satellite navigation performance augmentation in the Africa and Indian Ocean Region The Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) has started to...
View ArticleSeen & Heard: The new Mayflower, the Africa split
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry. The Mayflower autonomous ship....
View ArticleTopcon GNSS to assist Bridges to Prosperity efforts in Africa
A shipping container with several pieces of key GNSS and survey instrumentation is bound for the East African country of Rwanda. The equipment, an in-kind donation from Topcon Positioning Group, will...
View ArticleJoint venture expands SBAS for business development in Africa
A team of companies and government agencies is developing satellite services provided by ASECNA’s A-SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) for Africa and the Indian Ocean. Besides the current SBAS,...
View ArticleComNav helps bring GNSS benefits to Africa
ComNav Technology Ltd. is providing GNSS technology to Africa for projects in land mapping, continuously operating reference station (CORS) construction, precision agriculture and other fields,...
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