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Positioning Australia news
Latest news from the Positioning Australia program.
Ginan brings enhancements and invites collaboration
Ginan, a home-grown and free to use open-source toolkit that determines precise point positioning with centimetre level accuracy based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) observations has now released version 3.
New satellite dish puts Australia in prime position
A ceremony today at Uralla in regional New South Wales marked the completion of the construction of the first of four satellite dishes being delivered under the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) program.
Precise positioning a huge boost to Australian economy: report
Government investment in precise positioning infrastructure will have injected an additional half a billion dollars into the economy by 30 June 2038, according to a new report commissioned by Geoscience Australia.
Ginan brings greater enhancements to precise positioning with version 2 release
Ginan, a home-grown suite of open-source tools that is used to analyse GNSS data in real-time has been given a boost with enhancements to provide users with real-time processing of observations from all the GNSS constellations without differencing or combining the data.
Australia & New Zealand sign major contract with Inmarsat for new SouthPAN satellite service
Every major industry across Australia and New Zealand, from transport and construction to resources and agriculture, will gain positioning and navigation benefits from the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network鈥檚 (SouthPAN) new satellite service.
SouthPAN upgrade delivers improved positioning services to users
Geoscience Australia鈥檚 satellite-based augmentation system, SouthPAN, has reached a new milestone, elevating services to a reliable 99.5% accurate service availability, up from 95% previously.