Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The nearby Tampa Theatre. The 1926 movie palace still plays its Wurlitzer organ before showsThis will be the 27th international technical meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation. It is the world’s largest and oldest GNSS conference, founded in 1987 as the ION GPS conference.
The conference is now called ION GNSS+ to highlight its expanded emphasis on GNSS and the rapidly evolving field of alternative navigation methods.
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A cloud-based solution for analyzing and visualizing athletic training data on mobile devices has won this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).
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Russia, which suffered a launch failure in July that cost it three GLONASS-M satellites, plans to launch four more by the end of this year and four more in the latter half of 2014 — part of an overall plan to place a total of 12 satellites into orbit by the end of 2015.
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BeiDou-2 Is Born
The year before the main release, China surprised the global community when it published just a test version of the promised ICD for the BeiDou-2 B1 open signal. In this document, the modulation scheme for the signal was confirmed and the pseudorandom code generator for the ranging signal was described.
After skipping a year, the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit will reconvene on March 25, 26 and 27 in Der Residenz, München in Bavaria. The 2014 event will include a parallel track on Copernicus, the European Commision’s Earth Observation Program. Registration is now open at the web address below.
The opening plenary panel at 5 p.m. on Tuesday will discuss "GNSS-New Challenges."
The technical program will cover:
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Music right around the corner
This will be the 26th international technical meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation. It is the world’s largest and oldest GNSS conference, founded in 1987 as the ION GPS conference. With new signals and frequencies coming on line with modernized GNSSs, antennas play a more crucial role than ever in receiver system design. Antennas are often an overlooked or undervalued aspect of GNSS user equipment.
September 3, 2013
GNSS Antennas with Chris Bartone
Dr. Inder Gupta, The Ohio State UniversityChris Bartone, Ohio University
Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Hein, head of Europe’s Galileo Operations and Evolution.
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The sixth European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing will take place at the University FAF Munich in Germany on December 5 and 6, 2013.
EquationsDuring the past two decades, the Global Positioning System, together with other GNSSes, has become an essential element of the global information infrastructure, with myriad applications in almost every facets of modern businesses and lifestyles, including communication, energy distribution, finance and insurance, and transportation. Ever-growing dependence on GNSS creates strong incentives to attack civil GNSS, for either an illegitimate advantage or a terrorism purpose.
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IFEN GmbH, in partnership with WORK Microwave, have announced the release of software update v1.9 for their NavX-NCS GNSS multi-frequency simulator product line.
A key enhancement to the NavX-NCS solution is comprehensive support of China’s BeiDou-2 navigation satellite system, according to the companies. By enabling real-time simulation of second-generation BeiDou satellite signals, NavX-NCS expands a user’s GNSS signal capability beyond GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) constellations.
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With a key Galileo patent dispute now set to enter its third year the European Union (EU) is moving to monitor GNSS patents around the world — a move that should give it insight into the competitiveness of European positioning, navigation, and technology (PNT) companies and a heads-up about future intellectual property (IP) issues.
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Logan Scott, LS ConsultingSometimes GNSS spoofing seems a bit like UFOs: much speculation, occasional alarms at suspected instances, but little real-world evidence of its existence.
As far back as 2001, a U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center report suggested that as GPS further penetrates into the civil infrastructure, “it becomes a tempting target that could be exploited by individuals, groups or countries”.
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