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December 8, 2010
GNSS Awards and Honors: NovAtel, Raven, PTTI

As the end of 2010 approaches, many organizations award the special efforts and accomplishments of companies and individuals during the past year. The…

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December 8, 2010
NavCom Technology Extends GNSS Receiver Capabilities

NavCom Technology, Inc., has announced new capabilities for the SF-3050 multi-frequency GNSS receiver and Sapphire GNSS OEM board. In addition to the integrated…

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December 6, 2010
GLONASS Triple Satellite Launch Suffers Rare Failure

A Proton rocket carrying three modernized GLONASS (GLONASS-M) satellites failed to reach orbit following its launch Sunday (December 5, 2010), falling into the…

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December 2, 2010
GNSS Hotspots | December 2010

One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859 1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman…

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December 2, 2010
Measuring GNSS Signal Strength

Q: What is the difference between SNR and C/N0? A: GPS receivers built for various applications, such as handhelds, automobiles, mobile phones, and…

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December 2, 2010
Angelo Joseph

Angelo Joseph is currently a principal systems engineer with Rockwell Collins in Melbourne, Florida, where he works on airborne GNSS receiver design and…

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December 2, 2010
Figure 2: Military PNT — The Way Ahead

Return to main article: Military PNT — The Way Ahead

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December 2, 2010
Jules McNeff

Jules McNeff is vice-president for strategy & programs at Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc., in Vienna, Virginia, USA.

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December 2, 2010
Modeling Phase Noise Effects on Receivers: A History

Return to main article: Local Oscillator Phase Noise In 1966 D.B. Leeson proposed an empirical linear model for the noise spectrum of an…

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December 2, 2010
Jari Nurmi

Jari Nurmi, D.Sc.(Tech), has worked as a professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, since 1999, and is currently in the Department of…

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December 2, 2010
Heikki Hurskainen

Heikki Hurskainen received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and doctoral degree in computing and electrical engineering from Tampere  University of Technology (TUT),…

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December 2, 2010
Marco Detratti

Marco Detratti received the Laurea degree (M. Sc.) in electronic engineering from the University of Perugia (Italy) and the DEA (Diploma of Advanced…

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December 2, 2010
Ville Syrjälä

Ville Syrjälä received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in communications engineering (CS/EE) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. Currently, he is working…

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December 2, 2010
Mikko Valkama

Mikko Valkama received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) in electrical engineering (EE) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. In…

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December 2, 2010
Sarang Thombre

Sarang Thombre is a senior research scientist at the Department of Navigation and Positioning of the Finnish Geodetic Institute. He received his Doctoral…

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