Product profile
Trimble Applanix POS AV
Applanix POS AV is a GNSS-inertial positioning and orientation system for airborne direct georeferencing. It synchronizes mapping sensors and supports real...
Facts
- Company
- Applanix
- Product type
- component
- Status
- commercial
- Website
- https://applanix.trimble.com/en/products/hardware/applanix-pos-av
About Trimble Applanix POS AV
Applanix POS AV combines survey-grade GNSS and inertial sensing to calculate the position and orientation of airborne cameras, lidar, radar and imaging systems. It supplies exterior-orientation data during flight and logs measurements for refined post-mission georeferencing.
POS AV 310, 510, 610 and AVX 210 configurations provide different orientation performance and installation sizes. POSPac Complete adds CenterPoint RTX, boresight calibration and lidar or camera quality-control tools. The system supports crewed survey aircraft, helicopters and larger UAV mapping platforms.
Market context
GNSS/INS Module, https://images.ctfassets.net/9k5dj5b59lqq/7fN94Ovgc8Ux4Pt4oVBf6B/e12021e53810d828f0ab5d4751e64b56/pos-av-hero-image.png, exact official POS AV product image served through the official Contentful image transform, components, GNSS/INS Module, navigation_modules, components, gnss_ins_module, components
Summary
Type: GNSS/INS system
Core: POS AV
Function: Direct georeferencing
Audience: Aerial surveyors
Specifications
- alignment
- full in-air alignment
- antenna
- Low-profile FAA-certified GNSS L-band antenna
- applications
- aerial cameras, lidar, imaging sensors and synthetic-aperture radar
- correction_service
- optional Trimble CenterPoint RTX
- data_logging
- internal and removable USB
- environmental_design
- Compact, rugged, low-power airborne construction; exact envelope varies by model
- family_smartbase_xy_accuracy
- 0.02 m RMS across POS AV 310, 510, 610 and POS AVX 210 m
- family_smartbase_z_accuracy
- 0.05 m RMS across POS AV 310, 510, 610 and POS AVX 210 m
- gnss_receiver
- survey-grade, multi-frequency
- interfaces
- Ethernet, RS-232, event time marks and removable USB logging; exact interfaces vary by model
- positioning
- GNSS + INS direct georeferencing for airborne sensors
- post_processing
- Applanix POSPac Complete
- sensors_summary
- survey-grade multi-frequency GNSS receiver with inertial technology
- software
- Applanix POSPac Complete post-processing
- variants
- POS AV 310; POS AV 510; POS AV 610; POS AVX 210
Operations
- Environment
- survey aircraft, airborne mapping payloads, UAV operations
- Primary user
- airborne surveyors, mapping integrators, sensor manufacturers
- Role
- position and orientation, direct georeferencing, airborne sensor localization
- Product detail
- GNSS/INS Module, https://images.ctfassets.net/9k5dj5b59lqq/7fN94Ovgc8Ux4Pt4oVBf6B/e12021e53810d828f0ab5d4751e64b56/pos-av-hero-image.png, exact official POS AV product image served through the official Contentful image transform, components, GNSS/INS Module, navigation_modules, components, gnss_ins_module, components
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Trimble introduces POS LVX+ and POS AVX RTX mobile-mapping systems — 2025-10-08
- Trimble introduces Applanix POSPac Complete — 2025-10-02
- Applanix launches Trimble APX RTX for UAV mapping — 2024-09-24
- Applanix POSPac Cloud integrates with DroneDeploy reality capture — 2024-02-12
- Applanix POS LVX becomes ROBORACE positioning technology — 2021-02-04
- Applanix becomes a wholly owned Trimble subsidiary — 2003-07-07