News and blogs

News and blogs.

24.4.2019

News

International acknowledgement to FGI’s calibration services

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) and five other Finnish organizations were acknowledged internationally for their metrological activities.
18.4.2019

News

More ambitious improvements of social responsibility

The National Land Survey's social responsibility report for 2018 has been published.
27.3.2019

Blog

Gravity measurements in Antarctic summer

Geodetic and geodynamic research takes the research scientist around the world, sometimes as far as Antarctica. Last November, I did absolute gravity measurements in summery Antarctica.
27.3.2019

Service message

DGNSS-palvelussa häiriö

An error has occurred in DGNSS service on 27th of March. This affects single station DGNSS-mountpoints DGNSS and DG_XXXX (e.g. DG_MET3). The cause for this error is being investigated.

Mountpoints DGNSS_VERKKO, DGNSS_VERKKO3 and DGNSS_VERKKO12 are working normally. https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/maps-and-spatial-data/positioning-services/dgnss-service
12.3.2019

News

Can weather be forecasted by crowdsourcing mobile phone data?

Researchers at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI are investigating the possibilities of forecasting weather by crowdsourcing mobile phone data.
22.2.2019

News

Arvo Kokkonen continues as the director-general of the National Land Survey

The Arvo Kokkonen continues as the director-general of the National Land Survey.
15.2.2019

News

Anna satellite has been marked healthy

FinnRef stations around Finland report that four new Galileo satellites have been marked healthy for navigation and positioning services since 11 February 2019. One of the satellites is nicknamed Anna, after the child who won the Galileo Children's Drawing Competition in Finland.
14.2.2019

News

Statistics: Real estate purchases decreased from the year before

The National Land Survey of Finland compiled the real estate prices and number of purchases of 2018.
6.2.2019

Service message

Interruption in the use of positioning services 6.2. 15-16

Positioning services (RINEX-, DGNSS- and RTK-services) have service outage on Wednesday 6.2. between 15 - 16 due to maintenance activities.
4.2.2019

News

Techniques for autonomous navigation will improve safety at sea

Tallink Grupp’s ship Megastar will take part in research project for autonomous ships.

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