Geoptic undertake Muon Positioning Tests in Finnish Lakes

After Geoptic’s successful field trial of #muon positioning (MuPS) at  The University of Sheffield a few weeks ago, the Geoptic team is now in Finland to empirically test the application of MuPS in underground environments.

In a project co-funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global)and U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (Devcom), Geoptic is joined by Finnish colleagues, Muon Solutions, to address a number of challenges in global positioning in GPS-denied locations.

Through exploiting naturally-occurring radiation produced in the Earth’s atmosphere, known as cosmic ray muons, the MuPS technique utilises a combination of muons and other communications protocols such as acoustic signals as a means of mitigating the requirement for line of sight of communications to determine accurate location information in a variety of GPS-denied environments. MuPS thus reduces the need to closely monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature, salinity, turbidity, etc., which can impact on more traditional positioning techniques.

The Geoptic Infrastructure Investigations Limited and Muon Solutions teams’ next stop is Lake Kilpisjärvi in northern Finland where we will test MuPS in challenging underwater environments!

To read more about how Geoptic is developing MuPS:
https://lnkd.in/eCA7T28Q