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After Longitude - Modern Navigation in Context

After Longitude – Modern Navigation in Context

Cadets with sextants circa 1930 (from National Maritime Museum collections)

The "After Longitude" symposium covers what happened in between Harrison’s clocks and geospatial PNT. It is sponsored by the British National Maritime Museum and the Royal Institute of Navigation.

The event takes place on March 22 and 23 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. 

Speakers on Thursday, March 22 will cover the earlier history of navigation. On Friday, topics include:

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2012 International GPS/GNSS Showcase
January 16, 2012

2012 International GPS/GNSS Showcase

The 2012 International GPS/GNSS Showcase will take place at Chulalongkorn University, Department of Survey Engineering, in Bangkok on January 17.

The event promotes cooperation and research on GPS and GNSS applications in the Asia Pacific region.

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FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

Monte Mario, the highest hill in Rome

A special seminar for geodesists will take place in Rome, Italy on May 4 and 5, just before the 35th FIG general assembly and working week.

The conference venue is the Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario near the Vatican.

It is organized by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the surveyors’ international association (FIG) and the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG).

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Hexagon 2012

Hexagon 2012

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.

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Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

European Space Agency’s ESTEC in Noordwijk
European Space Agency’s ESTEC in Noordwijk

NavtechGPS will offer a four-day public venue course from March 5 though 8 at the European Space Agency’s Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

"Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals" (Course 541) will be taught by John Betz, MITRE and James Sennott, Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc.

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2012 International Satellite Navigation Forum/ NAVITECH
January 14, 2012

2012 International Satellite Navigation Forum/ NAVITECH

Plenary session at a previous Satellite Navigation Forum.

The sixth International Satellite Navigation Forum will take place during the NAVITECH exhibition at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, Russia on April 17 and 18, 2012.

The purpose of the forum is to discuss GLONASS and other GNSSes in the economy of Russia, developing commercial and civic uses for GLONASS, Russian national policy on the use of GLONASS, regional systems, new equipment and services and the development of single international standards in the field of satellite navigation.

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Winging It

FIGURE 1: Competitive group skydiving is currently judged by overlaying a grid on a photo and evaluating location of divers within its cells. Photo by Mark Harris.

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In 1589, at the age of 25, Galileo Galilei toiled up the 294 steps of a 55-meter bell tower in Pisa, Italy, where he was tutoring math students at the time.

According to his pupil and later biog­rapher, Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo carried with him two cannonballs, one twice the weight of the other. When he reached the top of the tower, he went to the lower balcony of the tilted structure and dropped the two balls simultaneously.

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2012 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
January 12, 2012

2012 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)

UNSW, the conference venue, is 4.3 miles (7 km) from Sydney city center.

The 2012 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) will take place at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia From November 13 to 15.

The keynote, by Google’s Waleed Kadous, is "The Indoor Tipping Point: Lessons from Indoor at Scale." 

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2012 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service (UPINLBS)

2012 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service (UPINLBS)

The Hilton Helsinki Strand at night

UPINLBS 2012 will take place on the Gulf of Finland waterfront at the Hilton Strand in Helsinki, Finland on October 3 and 4. The conference venue is 1/2 mile (0.8 km ) from the center of the city.

John Raquet, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology ; Mark Petovello, University of Calgary and Rafael Lucas, GNSS Evolution and Strategy Division, European Space Agency will deliver the keynotes.

The topics are:

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ICL-GNSS 2012: Localization and GNSS Conference
January 11, 2012

ICL-GNSS 2012: Localization and GNSS Conference

Lake Starnberg

The 2012 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 in Starnberg, near Munich, Germany. 

ICL-GNSS 2012 will address the latest research on satellite-based and complementary positioning techniques for use outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone
navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.

Abstracts may be submitted online beginning in February. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 2, 2012.

Topic areas include:

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Going to the Adriatic in May? Submit Your Abstracts for the GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference
January 6, 2012

Going to the Adriatic in May? Submit Your Abstracts for the GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference

Baska, Krk Island beach

This annual seminar on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and
covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the global navigation satellite
systems and efforts to improve accuracy and reliability.

The sixth GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference  will take place at Baska on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from May 21 to May 24, 2012.

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January 1, 2012

The Year’s Top Stories from Inside GNSS

If the readership of insidegnss.com news is any indication, 2011 was the year of LightSquared.

Articles about the would-be wireless broadband company that wants FCC approval to set up a terrestrial network transmitting on frequencies next door to GPS and other GNSS L1 signals garnered the most page views on our website for 6 out of 12 months.

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