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AusIndustry Recognises Locata's Success

Wednesday, 25 January 2012 | www.ausindustry.gov.au

For the past decade the founders of Canberra's Locata Corporation have been convincing sceptics they have invented what is widely considered…

FAA Presentation to US PNT Advisory Board

Wednesday, 9 November 2011 | Leo Eldredge, US PNT Advisory Board

Paper presented to the US President's Position, Navigation and Time (PNT) Advisory Board by Leo Eldredge (Satellite Navigation Manager,…

World first mine positioning

Wednesday, 19 October 2011 | Cole Latimer, Australian Mining Magazine

It’s no small thing to say that Global Positioning Systems (GPS) have changed the world. From guiding smart missiles down the streets of…

Australians make a big splash at ION-GNSS 2011

Sunday, 16 October 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

At ION-GNSS on 20-23 September 2011, in Portland, Oregon, Australians made quite an impact, or in sporting parlance ‘punched above their…

Locata Log… is Australia ready?

Sunday, 9 October 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

Locata Corporation is a small Australian company based in Canberra that is making a big splash. It is the cover story of the September issue…

Getting a fix on indoor GPS

Friday, 7 October 2011 | Chris Jablonski, ZDNet: Emerging Technologies

There is no de facto standard for an Indoor Positioning System (IPS), but commercialization is underway using a mixed bag of technologies…

Locata Log… the Locata ‘ecosystem’

Tuesday, 4 October 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

In published material related to the dynamic developments within the wireless communications and mobile telephony world there is regular…

Leica Geosystems Mining/Locata

Monday, 3 October 2011 | Construction Equipment Magazine

Leica Geosystems Mining has announced an exclusive industry partnership with Locata Corporation Pty Ltd to provide the mining industry with…

Locata Log… this changes everything

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

Is Locata truly an original technology, or a recycled pseudolite concept (which is people’s first reaction)?

Locata Log… don’t just believe me!

Saturday, 24 September 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

I have not been to ION-GNSS for several years. You can imagine my reaction when I heard that Locata Corporation was going to go all out to…

The UHARS Non-GPS Based Positioning System

Friday, 23 September 2011 | ION GNSS Technical Paper. Angelo Trunzo, 746th Test Squadron, USAF and John Amt, Locata Corporation

The Ultra High Accuracy Reference System (UHARS) is the 746th Test Squadron’s next generation reference system, currently under…

Kiss your GPS goodbye

Thursday, 22 September 2011 | Earthmover & Civil Contractor Magazine Newswire

Leica Geosystems have announced an exclusive industry partnership with Locata Corporation to provide the mining industry with the world’s…

Spime Watch: Locata TimeTenna

Wednesday, 21 September 2011 | Bruce Sterling, Wired Magazine

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but these press releases have some extraordinary claims.

Locata Log… on the Big Stage

Sunday, 18 September 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

I will remember the 1st September 2011 for a long time. Nunzio Gambale, CEO of Locata Corporation, a small hi-tech company based in…

Australian Breakthrough is GPS Game Changer

Sunday, 18 September 2011 | Prof. Chris Rizos, Geoinformation Systems Blog, UNSW

Australian company, Locata Corporation, has developed the world’s first autonomous, ground-based positioning system that works to…

Monaro Tests for U.S. Military System

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 | ABC Local Radio

There are many enterprises that go on in rural backyards that may surprise the neighbours but who would have thought that an important US…

Monaro Plays Key Role in Military Device

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 | ABC Online

The Monaro region in south east New South Wales is playing a major and unheralded role in the development of a new high tech positioning…

Leica Jps - Powered by Locata

Friday, 2 September 2011 | Leica Geosystems

Leica Geosystems’ next generation, ground-based, high precision Leica Jigsaw monitoring and GPS guidance solution unearths site…

Locata: A New Constellation

Thursday, 1 September 2011 | Eric Gakstatter, Tony Murfin, William Shears, GPS World Magazine

From a technological perspective, Locata has created something completely new: the capability to autonomously create a GPS-style system on…

Device Assists GPS Locators

Tuesday, 2 August 2011 | Investors.com

Startup Locata installs a network of book-sized devices called LocataLites across an area of several miles.

Locata Develops Ground-Based GPS Devices

Tuesday, 2 August 2011 | Tiffany Kaiser, DailyTech.com

Current GPS tech uses satellites to pinpoint a device's location, but Australian company Locata has developed ground-based location…

A Novel Ground-Based GPS System From Locata

Tuesday, 2 August 2011 | Andy Choi, Azosensors.com

Locata Corporation has developed small ground based transmitters that help cars locate their position with high accuracy.

Ultrafine Location Fixes

Monday, 1 August 2011 | Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review

A new location technology accurate to a few centimeters will refine location-based services and unlock another wave of novel ideas...

Augmented Reality: Locata Registration

Monday, 1 August 2011 | Wired Magazine, Wired Magazine

Small ground-based transmitters that mimic GPS satellites help receivers find their position with high accuracy.

Ground-Based Tech to Fill GPS Black Holes

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 | Dani Cooper, ABC Science Online

An Australian company is poised to take advantage of growing frustration at the limitations of satellite-dependent global positioning…

ION Exhibit Hall is My Beat

Monday, 18 July 2011 | Tony Murfin, GPS World Magazine

On the ION exhibition floor, Locata is making a return to the public scene and there are promises of an open ICD offering compatible…

Locata's Terrestrial GPS

Monday, 4 July 2011 | Directions Magazine

Locata, a terrestrial positioning company, has been working in "stealth-mode" for the last few years supplying ground-based, radio-location…

The Need for an Alternative PNT

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 | ICAO Report on Locata Alternative PNT

A paper delivered to the Navigation Systems Panel of the Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal on 19 May, 2011, suggesting that…

Australian GNSS - A Snapshot

Wednesday, 18 May 2011 | Tony Murfin, GPS World Magazine

In a continent the size of Australia, a country which is connected by so many lines of communication and commerce to so many other GNSS…