News and blogs

News and blogs.

20.4.2018

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Pekka Halme appointed as Development Director

The National Land Survey's Development Director Pekka Halme continues in his position.
17.4.2018

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Interruption in the use of positioning services 17.4. 16:00-17:00

Positioning services (RINEX-, DGNSS- and RTK-services) possibly have service outages on thursday 4.4.2018 between 16-17 due to maintenance activities. We apologize for possible trouble.
13.4.2018

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Looking for solutions to navigation problems in the Arctic

The quality of navigation in the Arctic region faces many challenges. For example, aviation cannot take full advantage of satellite navigation, because satellite coverage in the north is less extensive than it is in areas such as Central and Southern Europe.
12.4.2018

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Five picks from the Social Responsibility Report

The National Land Survey reports on its social responsibility for the fourth time this spring.
11.4.2018

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Indoor navigation improves security in urban environment

The Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) at the National Land Survey and the Norwegian research centre SINTEF are going to launch a collaborative project to develop situational awareness in security operations taking place in the urban environment and indoors.
10.4.2018

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More frequent updates of topographic map data

From now on, changes to the Topographic database will be updated more frequently in our services.
4.4.2018

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Interruption in use of positioning services 4.4. 16:00-17:00

Positioning services (RINEX-, DGNSS- and RTK-services) can have outages on Thursday 4.4.2018 between 16-17 due to maintenance activities.
27.3.2018

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World Heritage meeting at the northernmost world heritage site in Finland

The National Land Survey of Finland will organise a World Heritage Seminar at the Fell Lapland Visitor Centre in Hetta, Enontekiö on 12 April 2018. The Fell Lapland Visitor Centre was chosen as the site of the seminar, because from there it is only a short distance, as these things are measured in Lapland, to the northernmost world heritage site in Finland, the Struve Geodetic Arc station point at Stuorrahanoaivi.
23.3.2018

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Validating PNT performance of the Aurora Snowbox intelligent road

Soon autonomous cars will be tested under Arctic conditions in Lapland, but first we must determine the quality of the Finnish-Norwegian test section. If the test section is top class, car manufacturers will start using it.
16.3.2018

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Significant benefits from 3D geoinformation

The use of 3D geoinformation has rapidly developed in recent years.

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