Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Time is short — the European Satellite Navigation Competition, aka Galileo Masters — is seeking the best GPS and GNSS applications ideas for this year’s contest. The deadline has been extended one week to Sunday, July 8.
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Central area, Emperors Palace convention center and resortThe Geo-Information Society of South Africa will hold its 2012 conference and exhibition, GISSA Ukubuzana*, on October 2, 3 and 4 at the Emperors Palace Convention Centre, Jones Road, Kempton Park in Gauteng. A free shuttle bus is available every 20 minutes from Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo (ORTIA) airport to the convention center.
The theme is "An African Dialogue: Geomatics for Infrastructure Development and Service Delivery."The keynote speaker will be Dean Angelides, ESRI’s corporate director for international operations.
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Northern Jutland PeninsulaA seven day workshop on GNSS and Positioning for the Future will be held at a Jutland (North Sea) resort in Denmark from August 27 through September 2, 2012. It is open all those with an interest in satellite positioning and navigation but limited to the first 50 registered participants.
The workshop will cover GNSS basics, new satellite navigation systems, arctic navigation, intelligent transportation systems and environmental monitoring, with lectures by international experts in those fields. The program and full list of lecturers are available on the event website.
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FIGURE 2: Example of a national geoid (upper diagram) and a correction surface for the transformation from the new orthometric height system to the old height system (lower diagram). Country is Switzerland. Geoid undulations range from 45 to 55 meters in ETRS89 and from -5 to +5 meters in the national System CH1903+. Lower diagram: Correction surface to transform from the new orthometric height system (LHN95) to the old height system LN02 with corrections from -0.10 to 0.55 meters.Q: How do GNSS-derived heights differ from other height systems?
A: Height estimation using GNSS always seems to be trickier than horizontal coordinate estimation.
Why?
On the one hand, the GNSS technique has error sources that are more critical in the vertical direction. Height estimates are weaker because of a combination of satellite geometry, the presence of strong correlations to other parameters, such as atmospheric delays, and the antenna phase center model applied during data analysis.
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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 Pyramid, a Karlsruhe landmarkIEEE’s giant robotics conference comes to Karlsruhe, Germany in 2013, with the theme "Anthropomatics-Technologies for Humans."
The event will take place at the Karlsruhe convention center (Knogresszentrum Karlsruhe) on May 6-10, 2013.
The conference covers every possible aspect of robotics development from body form and movement, programming and learning, hardware and software to lots of positioning, navigation and timing aspects.
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Billed as the "First International Conference" on new trends and applications of GNSS, this new event is sponsored and organized by the Space Science Center at Cairo University.
It will take place at Cairo University in Giza city from September 1 to 4 2012. The conference language is English.
Paper abstracts are due by July 15, midnight Cairo Standard Time. Submit them online at the website below.
With more services and signals, the GNSS landscape is changing and new trends and applications must be considered.
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High Gate in Old Town, OlsztynThe 2012 IGS workshop will take place at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland from July 23 to 27.
The topic areas are:
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One of the natural wonders of Jeju island.The 2012 Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, previously known as the GNSS Workshop, will be held on November 8 and 9 at Phoenix Island resort on Jeju, Korea.
The general chair is Philho Peter Park, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.
The event has been held since 1994, when Korea’s GPS Technology Council (now GNSS) was established.
While the English language website has some information on deadlines and conference history, information on papers and registration is available in Korean only.
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Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation OfficeChina will launch another three satellites for the BeiDou-2 (Compass) system by the end of the year, according to officials speaking today (May 18, 2012) at the China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2012) in Guangchou.
Meanwhile, in comments quoted by People’s Daily Online edition, the system is expected to be adopted by some of China’s neighboring countries in the next year or two. People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
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IFEN GmbH has announced that the company has enhanced its NavX-NCS multi-GNSS RF constellation simulator product line to support China’s Compass/BeiDou-2 GNSS system.
Together with its WORK Microwave partner, IFEN has added the BeiDou B1 civil signal to its current suite of GNSS signal generation capabilities, which include GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, and SBAS. The companies used the modulation scheme and signal specifications outlined in accordance with the latest version of the Compass/BeiDou Signal in Space Interface Control Document.
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Two Beidou-2 MEO satellites go up on a Long March rocketChina successfully launched two Compass satellites into space at 4:50 a.m. Beijing Time on Monday, April 30 (20:50 UTC, April 29).
Designated Compass M3 and M4, these are the 12th and 13th of its second-generation Beidou-2 spacecraft to reach orbit and the second and third middle-Earth-orbiting (MEO) spacecraft launched by China’s GNSS program.
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Last year’s Satellite Navigation Conference, held in Shanghai.Opening Day Video (CNTV)
The CSNC, now in its third year, is an open platform for academic exchanges in the field of satellite navigation. Its aim is to encourage technological innovation, accelerate GNSS engineering and boost the development of the satellite navigation industry in China.
The conference will be held May 15-19 2012 at the Poly World Trade Center, Exhibit Hall 6, in Guangzhou, China.
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