Hemisphere

What Hemisphere does

Hemisphere serves four primary segments: agriculture (precision farming guidance and steering), construction and mining (machine control and earthworks), marine (heading and positioning compasses), and OEM (boards and antennas embedded into third-party products). It holds 37 granted patents with 28 additional pending. Revenue is generated through a mix of hardware sales (receivers, smart antennas, OEM boards, antennas, rugged devices), Atlas subscription-based correction services (Basic, H30, H10 tiers), and bundled application software (GradeMetrix, SiteMetrix, LandMetrix, Earthworks OEM). Distribution runs through a global dealer network of 94 dealers across 55+ countries plus direct OEM embedment relationships, with named OEM partnerships including Calian Group, Carlson Software, CPAC Systems AB, C-Nav Positioning Solutions (Oceaneering), and Inteq Distributors. The company maintains ISO 9001:2015 certification and operates offices in the US (Tempe, Hiawatha), Canada (Calgary), and Australia (Brendale).

Name

Hemisphere

Legal name

Hemisphere GNSS, Inc.

Website

https://hemispheregnss.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hemisphere GNSS designs and manufactures high-precision satellite positioning and heading products — OEM boards, receivers, smart antennas, the Atlas L-band correction service, and rugged field devices — serving agriculture, construction, marine, and OEM customers globally. A wholly-owned subsidiary of CNH Industrial since 2023.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

GNSS Positioning Technology

NAICS

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (334511), Satellite Telecommunications (517410)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Wholesale-Electronic Parts & Equipment, Nec (5065)

akta.pro primary industry

GNSS/GPS Navigation & Augmentation Systems (IMABAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Marine Navigation Systems (ECDIS, Radar, GNSS, AIS) (IMAJAJAE), Satellite, GNSS & Positioning RF ICs (HDAHAMAJ), Satellite Network Operations & Capacity Services (NOC, Capacity Leasing, Managed Payload Services) (HDAIAJAI)

Keywords

• High-precision GNSS receivers
• Satellite positioning technology
• RTK GNSS engine
• GNSS correction services
• Precision agriculture equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Scottsdale

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Hardware Products: Sale of GNSS receivers, smart antennas, OEM boards, and rugged devices. Products include Vector, Vega, Phantom, and Eclipse branded receivers and boards sold to OEM customers and end users through dealer network.
2. Atlas Correction Services: Subscription-based GNSS correction service delivered via L-band satellites. Provides positioning accuracies from sub-meter to sub-decimeter levels (4cm RMS). Service tiers include Atlas Basic, Atlas H30, and Atlas H10 with varying accuracy levels.
3. Software Solutions: Application software solutions including GradeMetrix for construction machine control, LandMetrix for agriculture OEM solutions, and SiteMetrix for construction site management. Sold as integrated solutions with hardware.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hemisphere GNSS designs and manufactures high-precision satellite positioning and heading products, including OEM boards, GNSS receivers, smart antennas, antennas, and rugged tablets/terminals, sold under brands such as Vector, Vega, Phantom, Eclipse, Crescent, and Outback Guidance. The company sells the Atlas GNSS global L-band correction service on subscription tiers (Atlas Basic, H30, H10) with sub-meter to 4 cm RMS accuracy, and licenses application software solutions (GradeMetrix, SiteMetrix, LandMetrix, Earthworks OEM) for machine control, construction site management, and agriculture guidance. Customers include OEMs and end users in agriculture, construction and mining, marine, and OEM integration markets across 55+ countries.

Product overview

Hemisphere GNSS offers a comprehensive portfolio of high-precision satellite positioning and heading products, services, and technologies for agriculture, construction & mining, marine, and OEM applications. The portfolio is organized around core hardware categories (OEM Boards, Receivers, Smart Antennas, Antennas, Advanced Rugged Devices) and software solutions (Application Software including GradeMetrix, SiteMetrix, LandMetrix, Earthworks OEM). The company's flagship technology offerings include the Athena RTK GNSS engine, Atlas GNSS Global Correction Service (an L-band correction service with three tiers: Basic, H30, H10), Eclipse and Vector positioning technologies, and advanced features like aRTK, SureFix, Tracer, BaseLink, SmartLink, Cygnus, Lyra II, and Aquila ASICs. The company also wholly-owns Outback Guidance, a precision agriculture brand. Products support multi-GNSS constellations (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, IRNSS, QZSS) and are distributed globally through a dealer network in 55+ countries. Hemisphere is part of CNH Industrial (NYSE: CNHI).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Athena™: State-of-the-art RTK GNSS engine for high-precision positioning
• Atlas®
• Crescent®
• Eclipse™
• Outback Guidance®
• Vector™

Products and services

• OEM Boards OEM integration boards including Vega series compass boards (Vega 28, 40, 60), Phantom series positioning boards (Phantom 20, 34, 40), and SBX-4 DGPS Beacon OEM Board. Built on next-generation ASIC technology with multi-GNSS constellation support (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, IRNSS, QZSS) for integration into third-party products by equipment manufacturers.
• GNSS Receivers Application-specific GNSS receivers for marine, construction, mining, and survey. Portfolio includes Vector VR1000 (construction & mining, 1059 channels), R632 (marine/construction/survey base station with Atlas L-band corrections to 4 cm and RTK baselines up to 50 km), Vector VS1000 (marine), and Vector VS-i8 Inertial Navigation System (marine with Honeywell sensor fusion).
• GNSS Smart Antennas Integrated GNSS receiver-plus-antenna products combining a GNSS receiver with an integrated antenna for plug-and-play deployment. Includes Vector VR500 (construction & mining), C631 (multi-frequency with Athena RTK engine, 2 cm accuracy), Vector V200/V123/V133/V500 marine compass solutions (0.27° to 0.75° heading accuracy), A631 (next-generation multi-frequency), and S631 (survey-grade with L-band and RTK baselines up to 50 km).
• GNSS Antennas Standalone GNSS antennas for land and marine applications. Portfolio includes A42 and A43 multi-frequency multi-GNSS antennas (GPS L1/L2/L5, GLONASS L1/L2, BeiDou, Galileo) and A65 millimeter-accuracy antenna with Calian XF Filtering technology for interference rejection.
• Advanced Rugged Devices Ruggedized tablets and terminals designed for field conditions. Includes IronTwo Rugged Terminal (Intel Celeron N3350, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB M.2 SSD, Windows or Linux, 1920 x 1200 touchscreen) and HT20 Full Rugged Tablet (Intel HD Graphics, Windows 10, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, 7-inch 1280 x 800 touchscreen).
• Application Software Solutions Software toolkits and applications for agriculture, construction, and OEM customers. GradeMetrix provides machine control & guidance positioning systems for dozer and excavator earth-moving. SiteMetrix provides construction site management software paired with the C631 RTK base & rover. LandMetrix OEM Agriculture Solution Toolkit provides application software and hardware for OEMs to build agriculture guidance and control systems. Earthworks OEM Machine Control & Guidance Solution toolkit enables manufacturers to build branded GNSS-based machine-control IP.
• Atlas GNSS Global Correction Service Industry-leading GNSS-based global L-band correction service delivering correction signals via L-band satellites at accuracies ranging from sub-meter to sub-decimeter levels (down to 4 cm RMS). Leverages more than 200 reference stations worldwide for global landmass coverage. Subscription tiers include Atlas Basic (50 cm 95% / 30 cm RMS), Atlas H30 (30 cm 95% / 15 cm RMS), and Atlas H10 (8 cm 95% / 4 cm RMS) on multi-year contracts. Features include Atlas AutoSeed rapid re-convergence and global ionospheric modeling.
• Outback Guidance Precision Agriculture Steering Solutions Precision agriculture steering solutions designed, manufactured, and sold by Hemisphere's wholly-owned subsidiary Outback Guidance, based in Hiawatha, KS, USA. Sold through a global dealer channel as part of Hemisphere's precision-agriculture portfolio.

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Case New HollandcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2026Case New Holland partnered with EUSPA and Hemisphere to test Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) for precision agriculture at the New Holland campus in Spain. The three-hour test demonstrated 3-6 cm horizontal accuracy and 1.18 cm pass-to-pass accuracy, confirming the service's potential to generate savings for farmers.
• Calian Group Ltd.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026Hemisphere GNSS and Calian Group jointly released the A65 GNSS antenna, a next-generation precision positioning solution. Calian handled antenna architecture and RF front-end engineering while Hemisphere provided application insight, system integration requirements, and field performance validation across agriculture, marine, survey, and machine control markets.
• C-Nav Positioning Solutions (Oceaneering International)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with C-Nav Positioning Solutions, a division of Oceaneering International, for marine positioning solutions.
• CPAC Systems ABminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership expansion with CPAC Systems AB for technology integration.
• Inteq Distributors LLCminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistribution agreement with Inteq Distributors LLC for product distribution.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Septentrio (Hexagon): Septentrio specializes in high-precision GNSS receivers and OEM boards for industrial, marine, and survey applications — a direct technology competitor to Hemisphere's Eclipse, Athena, and Vector product lines.
• Trimble: Trimble is the most directly comparable competitor in high-precision GNSS positioning, with broad offerings across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and marine. Trimble Agriculture and Trimble Civil Construction compete head-on with Hemisphere's OEM hardware and Atlas correction service.
• Topcon Positioning Systems: Topcon is a major competitor in precision agriculture and construction GNSS, offering OEM positioning modules, machine control systems, and correction services that overlap with Hemisphere's agriculture and construction segments.
• NovAtel (Hexagon): NovAtel, part of Hexagon's Geosystems division, supplies high-precision GNSS OEM boards, receivers, and correction services (TerraStar) directly competing with Hemisphere's OEM boards, receivers, and Atlas positioning.
• u-blox: u-blox designs and manufactures GNSS chips and modules for OEM applications including industrial, automotive, and consumer markets. It overlaps with Hemisphere's lower-precision tiers and competes in OEM design wins for integrated positioning.

Emerging players

• CHC Navigation: CHC Navigation is a Chinese GNSS equipment maker that has scaled quickly in surveying, mapping, and construction positioning. It is an emerging competitor in adjacent precision segments where Hemisphere's smart antennas and antennas compete.
• Carlson Software: Carlson Software integrates GNSS receivers with surveying and machine control software; it is listed as a Hemisphere integration partner and operates in adjacent channels in land surveying and construction.
• ComNav Technology: ComNav Technology manufactures high-precision GNSS OEM boards, receivers, and handheld devices with global distribution. It competes with Hemisphere in OEM boards and survey/marine/machine control markets.

Others

• Calian Group: Calian is an antenna technology partner (co-developed the A65 GNSS antenna with Hemisphere in 2026). It is a supplier-type peer providing antenna architecture and RF front-end engineering that complements Hemisphere's positioning stack.

Broad incumbents

• AGCO (Fuse / Valtra / Massey Ferguson): AGCO is a global agriculture equipment OEM that competes with CNH Industrial and embeds precision positioning in its tractors. As a customer and competitor in the same OEM channel, AGCO provides a useful comparable for the ag precision positioning market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A2 records

Investments

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