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Despite its impressive legacy of success driving many essential position, navigation and time (PNT) capabilities, GPS is not an infallible system and requires improvement to meet new threats, needs and PNT challenges, some of which go beyond GPS's obvious vulnerability to interference and dependence on an aging satellite constellation...
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We are pleased to announce that the Leica Jps (Jigsaw Positioning System) installation at Newmont Boddington Gold (NBG) in Perth, Western Australia, has won the coveted "Ancillary Equipment" Award from Mining Magazine for 2012.
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Leica Geosystems Mining, has begun to sell -- and ship to their global mining customers -- the world's first Locata-powered positioning systems. The Leica Jps (the Jigsaw Positioning System -- Powered by Locata) is the first positioning system to integrate global satellite navigation signals like GPS, and Locata's ground-based GPS-like networks.
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Leica Geosystems Mining is proud to announce the appointment of Mr Dave Goddard as Portfolio Manager for the Leica J3autonomous (Intelligent Machine Systems) product portfolio. In this role, Mr Goddard will be responsible for all business development, commercialisation and product management functions for the Leica J3autonomous product family, spearheading the ongoing solution development for remote control, tele-operated, semi-autonomous and fully autonomous mining.
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Leica Geosystems Mining partner in robotic and autonomous mining - ASI - has been awarded a U.S. patent for their unmanned convoy system. Being sold into mining as J3truck guideline, the convoy system can be applied to truck convoys on long-haul routes.
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After 17 years of research and development and 92 patents, Canberra-based company Locata is celebrating final acceptance of its system as a “gold standard” reference positioning system for the US air force.
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When is close, close enough? That depends. If you’re referring to a friendly game of horseshoes the answer could be several feet. However if you’re referring to the United States Air Force’s new-generation “gold standard” for GPS test capability — the Ultra High Accuracy Reference System — the answer is mere centimeters. This article describes the operational requirements, design, installation, and demonstration testing of the non-GPS–based positioning system (NGBPS)subsystem of the UHARS for the Central Inertial and GPS Test Facility.
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Leica Geosystems Mining and Locata Corporation are proud to announce the extension of their exclusive technology partnership in the Mine Machine Automation and Mine Fleet Management Market until 30 June 2014. The extension guarantees the ongoing, commercial provision to the global mining industry of the Leica Jigsaw Positioning System (Jps), powered by Locata technology.
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Leica Geosystems announces that customers and prospective users will be convening for the international Hexagon 2012 conference, June 4-7 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV and that registration is now open. Once again, by bringing together the latest design, measurement and visualization technologies and user communities from Leica Geosystems, Intergraph®, Z/I Imaging, ERDAS, Hexagon Metrology and NovAtel, Hexagon 2012 promises to provide more than 3,000 attendees with an experience of unprecedented scope and value.
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Leica Geosystems Mining has announced an exclusive industry partnership with Locata Corporation Pty Ltd to provide the mining industry with the world’s only high precision radio positioning system that is not reliant on GPS.
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