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2014 Geospatial World Forum
January 11, 2014

2014 Geospatial World Forum

The Geospatial World Forum and industry exhibition will be held at the Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG), Geneva, Switzerland on May 5-9, 2014.

The call for abstracts has closed. Early registration is open until February 15, late registration will be from February 16 to April 25. Spot registration is available after April 25.

This year’s theme is "geoSMART Planet: Resources + Infrastructure & YOU!" Program highlights include:

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Baška GNSS Conference 2014
January 9, 2014

Baška GNSS Conference 2014

The 8th annual conference on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and and focuses on GNSS resilience and GNSS applications development. It will take place at Baška on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from May 7 to May 9, 2014.

The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2014.

Topics include:

  • core satellite navigation systems’ developments and modernisation,
  • satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS),
  • space weather and ionospheric effects on GNSS performance and operation,
  • GNSS applications for air, marine, land and personal navigation, Location-Based Services, Intelligent Transport Systems, and Search and Rescue (SaR) operations,
  • resilience development againts natural (space weather and ionospheric) and artificial (jamming, spoofing and meaconing) disruptions of GNSS services
  • statistical and digital signal processing for electronic navigation and weak signal detection,
  • GNSS receiver design (including Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio),
  • GNSS education and professional advancement,
  • advanced multidisciplinary GNSS applications (in geomatics, transport, predictive analytics, remote sensing, agriculture, geodesy, forestry, tourism, environment protection, meteorology and science),
  • GNSS advancements, parallels and alternatives,
  • regulatory and legal aspects of GNSS utilisation,
  • Special session: space weather effects on GNSS performance and operation
  • Special session: statistical signal processing and Bayesian estimation for satellite navigation, and
  • Special session: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

The Royal Institute of Navigation, London, UK, Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia and Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and is technically co-sponsored by Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China.

For more information, contact Ms. Sally-Anne Cooke, the RIN conference and events manager at conference@rin.org.uk

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GAO Faults DHS, DoT for GPS Interference/Backup Effort
January 1, 2014

GAO Faults DHS, DoT for GPS Interference/Backup Effort

Federal efforts to protect positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals came under sharp criticism during the December meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) getting a bureaucratic ear boxing for having done little so far to specifically protect GPS.

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40th Anniversary of Key DoD Decision on GPS
December 17, 2013

40th Anniversary of Key DoD Decision on GPS

Brad Parkinson, the first director of the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office, once said that his work with the Global Positioning System had led him to validate an interpretation of “prime law” suggested by a colleague: one thing leads to another

Forty years ago today, that principle culminated in a key decision by the Department of Defense to proceed with what became the GPS program.

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GNSS Hotspots | November 2013
November 30, 2013

GNSS Hotspots | November 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. PAPER, PLEASE.
Silver Spring, Maryland USA
√ The USA will stop printing nautical charts next April, the end of a 150 year tradition. Why? “Declining demand, electronic and digital charts and federal budget realities,” said NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. They will maintain and update PDFs of more than a thousand coastal charts and refer those who admire traditional lithography to private printers who can do the job.

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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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RF Spectrum Protection
November 19, 2013

RF Spectrum Protection

Jules McNeff, Overlook SystemsTechnologies, Inc.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jules McNeff answers additional questions on the subject of spectrum protection and sharing in a special “GNSS Forum” extension of this installment of the "Thought Leadership Series" in this issue of Inside GNSS.

As Mark Twain once famously told a petitioner for investment advice: “Buy land. They are not making it any more.”

So it is with radio frequency spectrum, a limited and finite resource.

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