--- title: "Resources: Positioning and timing | Nexus Observatory" description: "Resources for the Positioning, navigation and timing platform: field stories, the open specification and the forms that reach the right team." url: https://observatory.global/pnt/resources/ publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc. updated: 2026-11-07 --- [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) / [Positioning, navigation and timing](https://observatory.global/pnt/) / **Resources** # Resources for positioning, navigation and timing. The explainer, field stories, the open specification and the forms that reach the right team, in one place. [Plan with us](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/deployment/) [Areas](https://observatory.global/pnt/areas/) Areas · **5** Technologies · **59** Industries · **6** More presentations ## See it from every side. Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before. [All presentations](https://observatory.global/presentations/) ### In depth [Use case **Highway corridor coverage and safety sensing**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/highway-corridor/) [Use case **Wildfire camera and fire-weather node**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/wildfire-camera/) [Use case **Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/utility-grid-edge/) [Use case **Community cellular and sensing**](https://observatory.global/use-cases/community-cellular/) ### Explainers [Explainer · Communities and rural **Communities and rural** Community cellular coverage on real terrain, fixed-wireless Fresnel clearance, corridors, a remote microgrid sized from its load and interim public-safety broadband.](https://observatory.global/industries/communities/explainer/) [Explainer · Environment and climate **Environment and climate — Sectors** Methane fencelines, acoustic biodiversity grids, flux towers, river sondes and smoke networks: an interactive explainer with the method behind every number.](https://observatory.global/industries/climate/explainer/) [Platform **Positioning, navigation and timing** A wrong timestamp is a wrong answer](https://observatory.global/pnt/) [Platform **Edge compute & AI** The archive is too late](https://observatory.global/edge-ai/) ### Stories [Story · Timing and PNT **Time as infrastructure** A 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only…](https://observatory.global/stories/timing-pnt/) [Story · Mountains and avalanche terrain **Snowpack, slope and signal** Avalanche forecasting reasons about the likelihood and size of avalanches on given terrain. The observations behind it come from a few stations in hard…](https://observatory.global/stories/mountain-avalanche/) [Story · 6G and sensing **Networks that sense** The framework for 6G names integrated sensing and communication as one of its usage scenarios: the same radio that carries data also measures range,…](https://observatory.global/stories/sensing-networks-6g/) ### Places and networks [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Arctic station** A self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.](https://observatory.global/environments/arctic-station/) [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Orbit view** Ground tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.](https://observatory.global/environments/orbit-view/) [Guided tour · Guided 3D tour **Coastal port** Coastal radar and AIS watch the approach, a met-ocean buoy reports the sea state, and crane-side edge compute closes the control loop on a private network.](https://observatory.global/environments/coastal-port/) [Network scene · Private 5G · Port **Private 5G at a container port** Small cells on the yard lighting masts and a sector site on the operations building serve remote-controlled cranes and trucks among steel container stacks.](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/private5g-port/) [Network scene · NTN · Satellite **Satellite direct to device in a mountain valley** Where the valley cell cannot reach, phones on the pass road connect straight to a low-orbit satellite, which relays through its feeder link to a gateway.](https://observatory.global/environments/networks/ntn-d2d/) ### Heritage observatories [Heritage observatory · Germany · 1781 **Hohenpeißenberg Meteorological Observatory** A mountain-top weather station in Bavaria that has recorded without a break since 1 January 1781, started as a node of the first international weather society.](https://observatory.global/observatories/hohenpeissenberg/) [Heritage observatory · United States · 1921 **Caltech Seismological Laboratory** A laboratory in Pasadena that gave earthquakes a number. The Richter magnitude scale of 1935 depended on one instrument type in many places, a lesson as relevant to networks today…](https://observatory.global/observatories/caltech-seismo-lab/) ### Interactive tools [Interactive tool · Plan a site **Field Deployment Studio** Terrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.](https://observatory.global/studio/) **01** Start here ## See it before you plan it. [Overview Positioning, navigation and timing Where and when, with the error bound. Back to the overview →](https://observatory.global/pnt/) [Plan a site Field Deployment Studio Plan coverage, power and timing on real terrain. Open the Studio →](https://observatory.global/studio/) **02** Stories ## Where this platform is at work. Field stories from the network, each with the systems in it and the sources behind it. [Airspace and drones A shared sky below 120 metres Flying beyond visual line of sight turns a drone from a camera on a stick into infrastructure. It needs a command link that holds, an identity others can… Read the story →](https://observatory.global/stories/airspace-drones/) [Orbit Orbits as infrastructure Low orbits are fast and crowded, high orbits slow and spacious. Every choice of altitude is a trade between delay, footprint and how long the satellite… Read the story →](https://observatory.global/stories/orbit/) [Timing and PNT Time as infrastructure A 5G cell must hold its phase within 3 µs of its neighbours, ±1.5 µs of a common reference; a synchrophasor’s one per cent vector error leaves room for only… Read the story →](https://observatory.global/stories/timing-pnt/) [Overview What changes by 2030 Six shifts will reshape how the Earth is observed before the decade ends: networks that sense, models that forecast, foundation models that read imagery,… Read the story →](https://observatory.global/stories/horizon-2030/) **03** Documentation ## The open specification and its tools. [Open Specification Functions, state machines, objects and flows. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/specification/) [Open Developers Software kits, agents and worked examples. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/developers/) [Open Conformance Run the suite, publish the result. Read →](https://observatory.global/protocol/conformance/) [Open Open source What is open, and on what terms. Read →](https://observatory.global/open/) **04** Reach the right team ## Every request has its own form. Each form routes to the team that answers it and names who receives your details. [Form Plan a deployment Tell us the site, the sector and the timeline. An engineer replies. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/deployment/) [Form Request a hardware quote Nodes, racks, power and masts: quantities, site conditions and delivery. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/hardware-quote/) [Form Write to us Not sure who should read it? Choose a department and we route it. Open the form →](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/message/) **05** On this site ## Where to go next. [Positioning, navigation and timing Areas Every area, with its systems and standards. Open →](https://observatory.global/pnt/areas/) [Positioning, navigation and timing Technologies The layered map of what we build with. Open →](https://observatory.global/pnt/technologies/) [Positioning, navigation and timing Architecture Layers, functions and evidence. Open →](https://observatory.global/pnt/architecture/) [Positioning, navigation and timing Industries The industry sites built on this platform. Open →](https://observatory.global/pnt/industries/) ## Bring us the site. We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details. [Plan a deployment](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/deployment/) [Contact](https://observatory.global/pnt/contact/) [Nexus Observatory](https://observatory.global/) **Positioning, navigation and timing** . Where and when, with the error bound. 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