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May 27, 2012
Figures 1 & 2: Truth on the Range

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May 27, 2012
Table 1: Truth on the Range

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May 26, 2012
Tom Willems

Tom Willems works as a GNSS Engineer at Septentrio. He has been involved in GNSS research since 1998. In 2006, he received a…

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May 26, 2012
Desiree L. Craig

Desiree L. Craig is the chief program manager for the 746th Test Support Squadron and the 46th Test Group at Holloman Air Force…

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May 26, 2012
Elmar Brockmann

Elmar Brockmann is head of “Geodetic Bases and Permanent Networks” at the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) where he is responsible for the…

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May 26, 2012
Stanford and Aalborg Announce Summer Workshop on GNSS Positioning for the Future

A number of GNSS experts from the United States, Denmark, Norway and China will lead a weeklong workshop on the future of satellite-based…

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May 25, 2012
Demystifying GLONASS Inter-Frequency Carrier Phase Biases

EQUATIONS 1 -11 GLONASS currently uses a frequency division multiple access (FDMA) technique to distinguish the signals coming from different satellites in the…

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May 24, 2012
How do GNSS-derived heights differ from other height systems?

FIGURE 2: Example of a national geoid (upper diagram) and a correction surface for the transformation from the new orthometric height system to…

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May 24, 2012
Difference Correlators

Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter…

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May 24, 2012
GPS Receiver Specifications

An increasingly urgent call to certify performance of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers is being heard from several sectors of the national political…

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May 24, 2012
Truth on the Range

Typical Rack-Mounted UHARS System A next-generation “truth” reference system for the U.S. Air Force (USAF) — the Ultra High Accuracy Reference System (UHARS)…

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May 24, 2012
CGSIC: 2012 Civil GPS Interface Committee Meeting

The Civil GPS Interface Committee (CGSIC) will meet during the ION GNSS 2012 conference at the Nashville Convention Center in Tennessee, USA on…

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May 23, 2012
SpaceX ISS Mission Relies on GPS Technology

SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon launch on May 22, 2012. NASA/Alan Ault The unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft currently attempting to visit to the International Space…

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May 23, 2012
GPS-Aided Monitoring of Parolees: No Privacy Issues, Just a Large Addressable Market

STOP GPS-based monitoring device (Updated May 22) Amid a growing controversy over GNSS-aided tracking of private citizens, a recent study sponsored by the…

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May 23, 2012
Inertial Sensors and Systems 2012

An afternoon at the 2011 symposium The Inertial Sensors and Systems symposium will take place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe,…

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