Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The 2015 World Congress of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation will take place at a new venue, the Corinthia Hotel, close to the well-preserved historical center of Prague, Czech Republic, on October 20 – 23, 2015. This will be the 15th meeting of all of the member organzations, who will discuss the science and practice of navigation and related technologies.
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China’s BeiDou will accelerate the pace of its development, even as the world’s other three GNSS systems are experiencing delays and difficulties, according to speakers in the opening session of the China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2014) today (May 21) in Nanjing.
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The ninth meeting of the International Committee on GNSS (ICG) will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 10 through November 14 2014.
This meeting is hosted by the European Union and will be organized by the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency (GSA).
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Kai BorreSamara State Aerospace University (SSAU), Russian Federation, will launch an English-language program in GNSS studies this fall, headed by Kai Borre, founder of the Danish GPS Center (DGC) and long-time professor of geodesy at Aalborg University.
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UK emergency call dispatcherEuropeans agree — assisted GNSS or A-GNSS provides the best means for locating emergency callers using mobile phones. Although the question of who should pay is remains to be answered, new regulations aimed at enabling the service now seem inevitable.
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Well, I could have taken up the subject of the deteriorating condition of U.S./Soviet, excuse me, U.S./Russian relations. But there are only so many windmills that I have time to tilt at.
So, rather than tracing the dissolution of bilateral GNSS cooperation in the wake of Russia’s reclaiming the Crimea and, who knows, perhaps eventually a large swath of eastern Ukraine, I thought I’d turn to an only slightly more remediable issue — GNSS carriage requirements.
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Jim Williams, FAA UAS Integration Office. AUVSI photoCompanies hungry to offer commercial services in the United States with unmanned aircraft finally have something to chew on.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has laid out a process whereby a carefully selected set of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) may be granted an exemption to do for-pay flights before the first broad rules for U.S. flying unmanned aircraft are finalized.
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Working on a GLONASS-M satellite at Reshetnev ISSThe Russian GLONASS system, which had appeared to be recovering from a series of organizational and technical problems in recent years, suffered two major disruptions during April.
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"Resilience Navigation" is the theme of the 2014 Arab Institute of Navigation Conference and Exhibition, MELAHA. It will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt on September 1-3, 2014.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 30, 2014. Papers should be submitted electronically as a pdf file to the email address listed below.
The conference topics are:
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The 2014 CERGAL conference will be held at the Art’otel Dresden in Dresden, Germany on July 8 and 9, 2014. The conference will be held in English.
Online registration is now open.
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Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system reportedly suffered another major disruption on Tuesday (April 15, 2014), with eight satellites malfunctioning and another going off the air entirely.
According to the Russian Interfax news agency as reported by the Moscow Times, eight GLONASS satellites malfunctioned for a half-hour period beginning shortly after 1 a.m. Moscow Time.
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Smartphone tracking results from two smartphones. Yellow dotted line, GPS/GLONASS only; green dotted line, GPS/GLONASS/QZSS/BeiDou. Broadcom Corporation image.Just when they thought it was safe to go back into space . . . .
The Russian GLONASS system, which had appeared to be recovering from a series of organizational and technical problems in recent years, appears to have suffered a systemic disruption during the past 24 hours — beginning just past 1 a.m. Moscow time on April 2 (UTC+4) — 6 p.m. EDT on Tuesday (April 1, 2014).
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NovAtel CORRECT with TerraStar precise point positioningNovAtel Inc. has announced that, with the release of its 6.400 firmware, NovAtel CORRECT positioning technology is now available with TerraStar’s precise point positioning (PPP) corrections.
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