Positioning Lidar and the Canadian Geospatial Industry for the Future

The Canadian Geodetic Survey provides the Canadian Spatial Reference System Precise Point Positioning service (CSRS-PPP) to support clients requiring accurate GNSS information.  The service is used internationally and over 1.2 million GNSS files are now process annually. 

The CSRS-PPP service has a kinematic mode that is known to support Lidar data collection.  Some recent statistics on kinematic services will be presented and expo attendees are invited to provide feedback on the service. 

Looking forward the positioning landscape is changing very rapidly.  In particular we see free public-good real-time broadcast PPP services coming soon in many parts of the world.  We will explore some implications of the Galileo High Accuracy Service which is to be fully launched in the EU in only a few months.