News and blogs

News and blogs.

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.
20.12.2018

News

Markku Poutanen is the new president of the Nordic Geodetic Commission

Professor Markku Poutanen of the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI of the National Land Survey was elected on December 19 as the new president of the Nordic Geodetic Commission (NKG) for the next four years.
15.11.2018

Blog

Modernizing the Mining Industry

The KAIVOS (Efficient & safe identification of minerals) project was established as a Business Finland funded venture with FGI (Finnish Geodetic Research Institute / Paikkatietokeskus), Aalto University and VTT, with the final goal to realize a fully automated mineral recognition and positioning system to help mines locate and differentiate between minerals and know their locations at all times with unpresented accuracy.
7.11.2018

Blog

Does the future of spatial data lie in open-source point cloud ecosystems?

Spatial data is a hot topic today: more and more parties and applications use location-based data. We can talk about a trend and even an "explosion of spatial data". Finland wants to be a part of the development. In the report on spatial data policy, which is being circulated for comments, the aim is that Finland will become the world's leading country in the use of spatial data.
24.10.2018

Paikannuspalvelut

Interruption in the use of positioning services 24.10. 15-17

Positioning services (RINEX-, DGNSS- and RTK-services) have service outage on Wednesday 24.10. between 15 - 17 due to maintenance activities. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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