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January 17, 2012

ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies

Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam

A special session on Satellite Navigation Technologies will be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE) at the Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam on August 1-3.

Because South East Asia will be covered by all of the global and regional satellite navigation systems by 2015, the region will experience the multi-GNSS environment at its edge.

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By Inside GNSS
January 16, 2012

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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By Inside GNSS

ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

Roma eventi – Fontana di Trevi conference center

The first IEEE-AESS ESTEL Conference (Europe Space and Satellite Telcommunications) will be held at Roma Eventi – Fontana di Trevi  
Conference Centre from October 2 through 5, 2012.

It is an offshoot of the Space Applications and Technologies (SAT) Expo, covering telecommunications via satellite for advanced services and applications, architectures, technologies and terminals.

The conference will be held in English. Abstract submissions have closed.

The technical program will cover five major areas:

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By Inside GNSS
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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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By Inside GNSS
January 15, 2012

AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2012

AUVSI 2011 exhibit floor (photo by Roger L. Wollenberg)

The 2012 Unmanned Systems North America exhibition and conference sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 6 -9 at Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas.

It features  technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems market. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.

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By Inside GNSS

New Austerity Squeezes GPS as DoD Tightens Its Belt

Embracing the need for debt-driven discipline, the White House has revised its strategy for the nation’s defense, taking a more fiscally constrained approach that reduces the number of troops and future spending on defense systems.

The new plan, formally announced January 5, was already being put into effect last summer. “The strategic guid­ance was the compass by which we steered the budget review leading to the president’s budget for fiscal year ‘13 and the years thereafter,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter told reporters.

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By Dee Ann Divis
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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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By Inside GNSS

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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By Inside GNSS
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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By Inside GNSS
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