Tag: GNSS

Help to define the future of Australian precise positioning capabilities

Help to define the future of Australia’s precise positioning capabilities

Users and experts in ‘location’ are being asked to come forward and help define the future of Australia’s precise positioning capabilities including the data, information and standards that will be available to Australian industries and the greater community.

Geoscience Australia’s Positioning Australia program and its partners FrontierSI, Curtin University and Positioning Insights, have opened a registration asking for volunteers to take part in the Request for Insights (RFI) which will be asking for input on how precise positioning services are being used multiple sectors across Australia.

If your organisation needs to position any ‘asset’ – whether it be a person or pet, tractor or train, boat or bull, car or container, plane or plant – this team are interested in hearing use cases from across all sectors of industry, and in any use of positioning that provides useful information for your operational or business activities.

The insights received will help shape the next generation of standards and protocols in Australia’s development of high accuracy positioning services.

Registrations are open now, and it is expected that successful applicants will start receiving links to the online Questionnaire from mid-December to early January next year.  The Insights campaign will be open to feedback until mid-February 2021.

If you are interested to contribute to this RFI, please register your interest here: https://survey.typeform.com/to/oXnDnULW

You can also register via the following QR Code.

QR-Code to access the Registration

 

Hello (Positioning) World!

Yes, yes, the title screams of newby to the blogosphere, and well it is true – this is my first blog posting, and yes, I did use a template.

Why a(nother) blog?

‘I can’t get my head around this whole GPS thing.’

Most people.

Many people I meet find ‘this whole GPS thing’ overwhelming especially as they have very little clue what ‘it’ actually is beyond a ‘couple of satellites up there’. GPS is not just the that powers your satnav device, reassures you with a blue dot on Google Maps, or let you hungrily track the delivery driver bring your family-size triple cheese and pepperoni pizza. Its reach and impact on our daily lives goes further. A lot further. A country mile further. That made me think there is an opportunity here…..

Making GPS/GNSS resources more accessible

So my goal with this blog is to share my observations and insights about the complex GNSS positioning activities going on around us which impact our lives – directly and indirectly, openly and discretely. It will have:

  • some links to useful resources on what GPS is (as well as GNSS),
  • links to the main GNSS players in different industries, and
  • a few up and coming startups doing amazing things in and for positioning.

Helping you ‘get GPS’

Whilst my (longwinded) corporate motto is ‘Empowering Organisations with the best insights around GPS / GNSS / RTK positioning solutions and technologies for today’s location-driven world’, I hope this blog will help you ‘get GPS’. To better understand is being done to give you ‘your location’ faster, more accurately and more reliably.

Wonderings and wanderings, ramblings and ruminations

Along the way, I plan to share some other things that interest me (the Categories in the blog might give this away) such as:

  • Technology – GNSS, new inventions and gadgets
  • Space and Spatial – satellites and their sensors, all things measurement and geospatial
  • Travel – flying, exploring
  • Fun stuffs – craft beer, LEGO

Let’s Go!

Thanks for joining me on this journey to keep track of GPS and how it is affecting our world today and tomorrow – Let’s Go!