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July 10, 2011
2011 East Coast Seminars: NavtechGPS

NavtechGPS will offer its 2011 east coast GNSS technical seminars at the Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland from Monday, July 11 through Friday,…

By Inside GNSS


July 8, 2011
NTIA Asks FCC to Delay LightSquared Rollout

Lawrence E. Strickling, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) [Updated July 9, 2011] The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on July 6…

By Inside GNSS


July 7, 2011
Sixth International Committee on GNSS Meeting Begins September 5 in Tokyo

Mita Kaigisho, site of the ICG-6 meeting ICG-6, the sixth meeting of the UN’s Sixth Meeting of the International Committee on GNSS, will…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2011
ESA International Summer School on Navigation Satellite Systems 2011

Galileo Test and Development Environment (iFEN photo) The 2011 International Summer School on GNSS will take place July 20 to July 30 in…

By Inside GNSS


July 5, 2011
Lockheed Martin Team Completes GPS IIIB System Design Review

GPS III satellite. Lockheed Martin illustration Lockheed Martin has announced the successful, on-schedule completion of a system design review (SDR) for the second-phase…

By Inside GNSS


July 5, 2011
UAV-g 2011: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics

ETH Hönggerberg from the south (Hannes Röst photo) The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) sponsors this conference and exhibition on UAVs and…

By Inside GNSS


July 2, 2011
FCC Invites Comment on LightSquared Interference to GPS

Individuals and organizations wishing to comment on the recently released technical working group (TWG) report on LightSquared’s interference to GPS as well as…

By Inside GNSS


July 2, 2011
LightSquared GPS Interference Report and Recommendation to FCC Fuels the Fight

LightSquared submitted a 318-page report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday (June 30, 2011) on the months-long effort of a technical working…

By Inside GNSS


July 2, 2011
Cars on the Road!

FIGURE 1: System architecture Cooperative vehicle safety applications should preferably have two-meter horizontal accuracy and six-meter vertical accuracy, all with a 95-percent availability….

By Inside GNSS


July 2, 2011
GLONASS-K for Airborne Applications

FIGURE 1: GPS/GLONASS L1 frequency band As is well known, Galileo will become the European complement to the U.S. Global Positioning system. But…

By Inside GNSS


July 1, 2011
Verification Testing

A GNSS signal simulator is mainly used to simulate GNSS signals transmitted by navigation satellites, propagated through the Earth’s atmosphere, and received by…

By Inside GNSS


July 1, 2011
GPS Interference Testing

Anechoic chamber test site at U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) facility in Patuxent River, Maryland Interference can pose a threat to the…

By Inside GNSS


June 30, 2011
Summer Dreams: Case Western Wins Robotic Lawnmower Contest

2011 Case Western Reserve team winning robotic lawnmower A team from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio took home the top $15,000…

By Inside GNSS


June 30, 2011
USA Challenge Competition Seeks Satellite Navigation Apps

This is a 1993 photo of Walter, a German astronaut. He exemplifies the fearless approach to experimentation and the spirit of fun that…

By Inside GNSS


June 28, 2011
Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation

Astroclock This colloquium will explore the implications of redefining UTC in astrodynamics, astornomy, geodesy, navigation, remote sensing and related fields.

By Inside GNSS


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