Oh, yes, to be sure — they are really impressive numbers: the steep upward curve of unit and dollar (or euro or ruble or renminbi) sales volumes now that GNSS has hit the big time.
Whether it’s $25 billion today or $68 billion in 2010, the worldwide market has really taken off since consumers have discovered — almost by accident, in many cases — the amazing power of GNSS-driven products and services.
Ah, consumers. The mass market.
Rich! We’ll all be rich beyond our wildest imaginings!
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Cruising around out here in Oregon, far outside the D.C. Beltway on the golden sunset side of the American dream, listening to the radio, I realize I have a little signal availability problem of my own sometimes.
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Historians sometimes speak of the Axial Age, referring to an ancient era that saw the coincident appearance of major religious and philosophical movements in widely scattered regions of the world. It represented a turning point in the course of human affairs.
This first decade of the 21st century may prove to be the Axial Age of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) community. Consider these signs and portents:
The U.S. Global Positioning System is poised to regain its momentum and sense of direction.
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Spirent engineers and other GNSS professionals present papers on new developments in GNSS. Customers will present real-life case studies and Spirent Positioning Technology…
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Human Engineering is an occasional feature that profiles GNSS engineers in industry, academia, the military and government. Want to know someone’s favorite equation?…
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Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems – Japan Civil Aviation Bureau Augmentation systems are designed to improve one or more qualities of a GNSS system or…
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The third CNES-ESA workshop on GNSS signals and signal processing will provide an overview of the Galileo and other GNSS signals, characteristics, and…
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“GNSS Solutions” is a regular column featuring questions and answers about technical aspects of GNSS. Readers are invited to send their questions to…
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This regular Inside GNSS column explores the technical and scientific themes that underpin Global Navigation Satellite System programs and applications. It features analyses…
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The Polish Naval Academy and Institute of Navigation and Hydrography will host the XVI International Scientific and Technical Conference for The Role of…
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Professor Vidal Ashkenazi is chief executive of U.K.-based Nottingham Scientific Ltd, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was the…
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Professor František Vejražka graduated with a master of science degree in engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University…
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In 2007, Linyuan Xia was appointed as a leading professor at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, where he conducts research and teaches…
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