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Auto Regulators Seek to Shape Navigation Devices and Apps
November 27, 2013

Auto Regulators Seek to Shape Navigation Devices and Apps

Highway safety officials are crafting guidelines aimed at pushing manufacturers to make portable electronic devices — including cell phones, hand-held navigation receivers, and navigation apps — less likely to distract drivers. They may face some push back, however, from members of Congress who are already questioning whether GNSS devices should be included under the proposed standards.
 

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China Satellite Navigation Conference 2014 Planned for Nanjing

China Satellite Navigation Conference 2014 Planned for Nanjing

Academician Sun Jiadong, Chairman of CSNC 2014

The organizing committee for the fifth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2014) is inviting papers for presentation at the event, scheduled May 21–23 in Nanjing.

The annual event is China’s largest and most comprehensive high-level satellite navigation academic conference. Abstracts need to be submitted by November 30 and full papers, by December 30.

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5th Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS
November 18, 2013

5th Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS

The Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam

The fifth Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS will take place at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam from December 1-3, 2013.

Registration has closed.

The December 1 GNSS Tutorial Session will be "GNSS Positioning Technology".

On December 2 and 3, sessions will be devoted to GNSS applications, a group discussion on the technologies and results of the Multi-GNSS Demonstration experiment and a demonstration of emergency information distribution during disaster using GNSS.

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FCC Examines Shortcomings in E911 Calls’ Location Data
November 15, 2013

FCC Examines Shortcomings in E911 Calls’ Location Data

Prompted by reports of a sharp deterioration in the quantity and quality of 911-caller automatic location information, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is weighing new requirements for phone companies to help emergency personnel find cell phone users in need of aid.

Data from emergency providers show that a rapidly declining number of 911 calls from mobile phone users come in without the accurate location information needed to find the person calling for help.

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NovAtel Launches CORRECT OEM Positioning Solution
November 9, 2013

NovAtel Launches CORRECT OEM Positioning Solution

NovAtel Inc. has announced the NovAtel CORRECT positioning technology, which combines data from multiple GNSS satellite constellations with corrections from a variety of sources, to deliver the best position solution possible.

Designed for NovAtel’s OEM6 receivers, CORRECT capabilities can be implemented in three ways, with correction data delivered via satellite or Internet, depending on the requirements of the application: precise point positioning (PPP), TERRASTAR, or real-time kinematic (RTK).

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ION International Technical Meeting 2014
November 7, 2013

ION International Technical Meeting 2014

The Institute of Navigation’s 2014 International Technical Meeting will take place January 27, 28 and 29 at the Catamaran Resort and Spa in San Diego, California.

The plenary session topics include:

  • Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
  • Receivers and Antenna Technology
  • Space and Atmospheric Weather
  • Urban, Indoor and Terrestrial Applications

The technical sessions address:

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ION GNSS+ 2014

ION GNSS+ 2014

The nearby Tampa Theatre. The 1926 movie palace still plays its Wurlitzer organ before shows

This 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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Russia Names New Head to Space Agency in Wake of GLONASS Launch Failure
October 11, 2013

Russia Names New Head to Space Agency in Wake of GLONASS Launch Failure

Oleg Ostapenko, new Roscosmos chief

Former Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko will head up Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), replacing Vladimir Popovkin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday (October 10, 2013).

Popovkin was dismissed from his post Thursday by a government decree, according to a report by Novosti RIA, the Russian information agency.

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GNSS Hotspots | September 2013
September 14, 2013

GNSS Hotspots | September 2013

One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859
1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)
Nouméa ground station after the flood
A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat
Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV
Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)
“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder.
Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram
Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST

1. EASY RIDER
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
√ Not only has century-old American motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson used consumer focus groups for the first time to develop its newest “hogs,” it has responded to customers with a voice-activated touch-screen GPS unit, the first on a production model. Now the Easy Riders don’t have to wend their way to trouble, they can ask their chopper where to go.

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