Applanix, based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, develops and manufactures a line of Inertial Navigation System products.

The company's Position and Orientation Systems (POS) are used worldwide for a variety of applications such as aerial survey and mapping, remote sensing, road profiling, GIS data acquisition, and hydrographic surveying.

[1] Applanix, founded in February 1991 as Applied Analytics Corporation, is a spin-off of Honeywell's Advanced Technology Centre.

In its first two years of its operation, Applied Analytics provided engineering services in integrated inertial systems and real-time image processing for aerospace.

Trimble expected the acquisition to extend its technology portfolio and enable increased robustness and capabilities in its future positioning products.