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Privacy Hard to Maintain as Apps Gather GNSS Location Data for Retailers, Crowd-Sourcing

The average person with a smart phone has their location revealed every three minutes, according to a recent study, information that can be determined even if GNSS capabilities are turned off, experts said.

Research published last year by Carnegie Mellon, showed that, overall, “somebody or something was trying to get your location” every three minutes, said Logan Scott, an expert in GPS, cellular and wireless technologies. “Over a space of two weeks the average is about 6,200 position reports coming out of that (phone).”

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GNSS Stars in ITS World Congress

GNSS technology, which has been in the background of many intelligent transport system (ITS) projects and programs, will be front and center at the ITS World Congress 2015 next week (October 5-9, 2015) in Bordeaux, France.

Under the theme, “Towards Intelligent Mobility — Better Use of Space,” the event will draw thousands of registered attendees and around 200 exhibitors to take part in technical sessions, panel discussions, and demonstrations of ITS technology, products, and servuces.

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September 24, 2015

ION GNSS+ 2016

ION GNSS+ 2016: GNSS + Other Sensors in Today’s Marketplace will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from September 12 through 16, 2016. Tutorials will take place on September 12 and 13.

The 56th CGISC meeting will be held concurrently on September 12 and 13. Meetings of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee are free and open to the public.

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September 20, 2015

IEEE/ION PLANS 2016: Position Location And Navigation Symposium

Forsyth Park, Savannah, Georgia

The IEEE/ION PLANS 2016: Position Location And Navigation Symposium will take place April 11-14 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah in Savannah, Georgia.

Early bird registration ends March 10, 2016.

This biennial technical conference and industry exhibition explores the field of navigation — from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results.

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ION Pacific PNT Conference 2017

Waikiki Beach

UPDATED: March 21, 2017

The Institute of Navigation’s 2017 Pacific PNT Conference will take place May 1-4, 2017 at the Marriott Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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ITM 2016: ION International Technical Meeting 2016

Monterey Bay, California.

The Institute of Navigation’s 2016 International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 25-28 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey in Monterey, California.

The abstract submission deadline has passed.

Discounted Registration and hotel reservations end January 3, 2016. PTTI registration includes access to the International Technical Meeting (ITM).

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Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2016

Munich, Germany

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit and exhibition will take place at the Residenz Muenchen in Munich, Germany on March 1 – 3, 2016.

Register here.

The theme for this year’s summit is “GNSS: Creating a Global Village”.

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September 18, 2015

Development Risks May Slow GPS Military Receiver Program

Michael Sanjume, deputy chief of the GPS Directorate User Equipment Division

The Air Force may dial back plans to accelerate its military receiver program, possibly reversing an earlier decision to combine development and production steps as a way to meet a congressional procurement deadline.

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New GPS Director Brings Technical, Space Program Background

With experience in satellite procurement, user equipment development and working with Congress, Col. Steven Whitney may be just the chief the GPS Directorate needs.

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September 17, 2015

Unicore Releases High-End, High-Precision UB380 GNSS Receiver Board

Unicore UR380 GNSS Receiver with UB380

Unicore released UB380 GPS/GLONASSS/BDS high precision board at ION GNSS+ 2015, held this week in Tampa, Florida.

UB380 is a 384-channel, multi-GNSS receiver that supports GPS, GLONASS, and the BeiDou Satellite System (BDS) based on Unicore’s multi-GNSS system on a chip. The receiver board can support GPS L1, L2, and L5; GLONASS L1, L2; and BDS B1, B2 and B3.

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September 16, 2015

UNAVCO Names Septentrio as Preferred Vendor for GNSS Reference Stations

UNAVCO has announced the selection of Septentrio to be the preferred vendor of next-generation GNSS reference stations for the Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) Facility. The preferred vendor status is valid through the duration of the GAGE Facility Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Military Receivers: Air Force Wants Foreign GNSS Capability

Rockwell Collins DAGR. From Wikimedia Commons

The GPS Directorate wants industry to more quickly develop innovative user equipment that integrates both the modernized GPS signals and signals from international constellations like Galileo.

“In the future,” said the organization’s new director, Col. Steve Whitney, “it’s going to be important that our industry partners and the Directorate investigate ways to pull in these new signals — and that includes some of the non-GPS signals — into our user equipment.”

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September 15, 2015

GNSS Hotspots | September 2015

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.