Eyes Over Satellites: US Firms Build Vision-Based Tech to Replace GPS

A partnership between two US tech firms is looking to put cutting-edge visual capabilities into aerial and ground platforms, giving them precise coordinates in environments where GPS fails.

Niantic Spatial, a San Francisco–based geospatial AI firm, joined forces with spatial intelligence company Vantor to deliver a unified positioning platform that fuses their core technologies.

For ground forces, Niantic enables visual localization by aligning live camera feeds against its extensive map library, calculating a soldier’s position and orientation based on what they see.

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