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Differential Gps Technology News

08 Jun 2005

CSI-made MX 575 is Type-Approved as DGPS for SOLAS

Brunswick Corporation. MX 535 Transponder -- with all three linked to a junction box. Hemisphere GPS division. carriage requirements, according to standards established by the IMO. half-meter long, together with CSI's MBL-3 beacon antenna. Marine for some time. Trinity Solution. Hemisphere GPS has been producing for MX since 2003. customers include the U.S. Coast Guard. Hemisphere GPS President Rick Heiniger. be called the next wave in navigation," said MX Marine President Greg Konig. corrections. global customer base that includes both the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards. multipath-resistant antennas in a single enclosure a half meter long. unexpected DGPS signal outages. multipath-resistant antennas in two separate enclosures. accuracy. being much more affordable.

31 Mar 2003

Seaway Corporations Open Waterway to Mandatory AIS

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) and the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) opened the binational waterway’s 45th navigation season. This season marks the beginning of mandatory Automatic Identification System (AIS) use on commercial vessels entering waterway in North America to employ this technology as a requirement for transit. “AIS represents a significant improvement in marine transportation navigation, integrating vital navigation data long available through our Vessel Traffic Control Centers (VTCCs) with electronic chart display technology at the fingertips of officers on the bridge,” said SLSDC Administrator Albert Jacquez.