Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Exhibition floor at a previous Satellite Navigation Forum.The annual International Satellite Navigation Forum, which emphasizes GLONASS innovations and commercial applications, will take place at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, Russia on June 1 and June 2, 2011.
It is held at the same location as the Navitech Expo navigation systems, technologies and services trade fair, which runs from June 1-3.
By Inside GNSS
The Geospatial Building at the University of NottinghamA two-day workshop on GNSS receivers will take place at the Geospatial Building at the University of Nottingham Innovation Park on April 14 and 15, 2011.
In addition to talks by GNSS experts, the workshop features product demonstrations, using the test facilitiies at GRACE, the GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence. These include GPS and Galileo full constellation Spirent simulator, signal record and replay devices and the roof-based fixed test track designed for dynamic research and testing.
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The 2011 EU GNSS Receiver Workshop will take place at the University of Nottingham’s Geospatial Building on April 14 and 15.
In addition to talks, the event features project demonstrations that make use of the GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence (GRACE) test facilities. These include a GPS and Galileo full constellation Spirent simulator, signal record and replay devices and the roof-based fixed test track designed for dynamic research and testing.
By Inside GNSS
Marriott Convention CenterThe American Society of Civil Engineers will offer a day-long program on Monday, March 21 at SPAR International 2011 that will focus on real-time GNSS positioning and using the 3D Global Spatial Data Model
Bill Henning, senior geodesist for the National Geodetic Survey, will lead the morning session. With more than 43 years of experience in all phases of surveying technology, he is helping to develop guidelines and support methodology for real time GNSS position with state, national, and international organizations.
By Inside GNSS
Fira de Barcelona, Monjuic venueThe GlobalGEO Fair will take place in the Monjuic Venue, Hall 6 at Fira de Barcelona exhibition center in Barcelona, Spain from March 15 to March 17.
The fair features the latest products for GPS navigation, 3D mapping, geographic information systems, photogrammetry, teledetection, geodesics, topography, satellite navigation, intelligent transport systems and communications.
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Baška, Krk Island, CroatiaThe fourth GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions conference, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation, will accept paper abstracts through March 25, 2011.
It will take place from May 23-26 2011 on the Adriatic resort island of Krk.
The conference will focus on all aspects of satellite navigation, but particularly these subjects:
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Martyn Thomas, RAE GNSS Study Group ChairmanRelease of a British Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) report today (March 8, 2011) adds another chapter to the growing chronicle of GNSS vulnerability — concluding that the integrity of GNSS is insufficient for safety-of-life applications.
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Once this week’s Munich Satellite Navigation Summit got rolling, the information began flowing — sometimes in bits and pieces, sometimes in a flood.
Russia’s GLONASS program raised the curtain a few inches more on its plans to add CDMA signals to its FDMA satellite, beginning with the GLONASS-K launched last week and continuing on to a full set in orbit by 2020.
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Listening to today’s panel discussion on GNSS spectrum issues — with the hopeful subtitle, “A Place Where Competitors Become Colleagues?” — brought to mind a metaphorical description of the GPS signal environment that I heard recently.
The Munich Satnav Summit discussion revolved around the growing pressure on GNSS from other RF users, such as LightSquared, desiring to set up in radionavigation satellite system (RNSS bands).
Somewhat embellished, the description was this:
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One of the delights of Munich.Perhaps it was Bavaria’s famous, free-floating Gemütlichkeit or just the excellent jazz ensemble from a nearby town, but the opening plenary at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit this evening (March 1) was awash in benign goodwill but little new insight into the condition of the world’s GNSS systems.
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Reprising its role as probably the premiere European conference for high-level discussions of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) policy, the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit set March 1–3 in Germany will highlight the Russian GLONASS system in a special session and address the plenary theme of “GNSS in the Balance.”
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The makers of LabSat GNSS simulators, in cooperation with NavTech GPS, will host an interactive webinar in March on "How to use GNSS Record and Replay to make your testing faster and more effective." Two sessions will be held.
The US session takes place at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST, 17:30 GMT) on Wednesday, March 2 2011.
The UK/European session takes place at 14:00 GMT on Thursday, March 3 2011.
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In his State of the Union address on January 25, President Obama held up the Global Positioning System as a prime example of government providing “cutting-edge scientists and inventors with the support that they need” to create world-leading, job-creating innovation.
The following day, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) International Bureau approved a conditional waiver allowing LightSquared Subsidiary LLC to build tens of thousands of terrestrial transmitters for wireless communications in frequencies on either side of the GPS L1 band.
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