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AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2013
April 1, 2013

AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2013

The 2013 Unmanned Systems North America industry exhibition and symposium sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 12 -15 at Walter E. Washington convention Center in Washington D.C. The Renaissance Washington is the conference headquarters hotel.

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

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By Inside GNSS
Furuno to Launch New Multi-GNSS Receiver Chips, Modules This Summer
March 29, 2013

Furuno to Launch New Multi-GNSS Receiver Chips, Modules This Summer

Furuno Electric Company has announced that new multi-GNSS receiver chips eRideOPUS 6 and eRideOPUS 7 — with active anti-jamming, multipath mitigation, and dead reckoning interfaces — will be available to the market beginning August 2013.

The eRideOPUS 7 receiver chip can process GPS and GLONASS signals (with a combined antenna), satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) transmissions, Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), and — with a software update —Galileo signals. The eRideOPUS 6 is not GLONASS-capable.

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By Inside GNSS
Move to Set Privacy Rules for Operating Unmanned Systems Gathers Steam

Move to Set Privacy Rules for Operating Unmanned Systems Gathers Steam

The prospects for the rapid integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the day-to-day work of farmers, pipeline operators and firemen seem to be dimming amidst a hail of privacy legislation.

Virginia is poised to enact a two-year moratorium on the use of UASs, roughly 30 other states are weighing legislation and nearly half a dozen federal bills limiting the use of UASs have already been introduced in Congress just two months into the new session.

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By Inside GNSS
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Letters: Get a Start on GNSS Interoperability Now
March 25, 2013

Letters: Get a Start on GNSS Interoperability Now

“The GNSS Quartet” (January-February 2013, Inside GNSS, aptly named and coauthored by Glen Gibbons, Dee Ann Divis, and Peter Gutierrez) is reminiscent of Dr. Brad Parkinson’s observation about “interchangeability” at his ION GNSS 2011 plenary session. With interoperability taken to its logical level of completion, a position solution should be readily obtainable from four satellites, each belonging to a different constellation.

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By Inside GNSS
Civil Use of UAS

Civil Use of UAS

Chuck Johnson, NASA

Few domestic issues have evoked such excitement — and controversy — in recent years as a 2012 congressional mandate to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to expand civil use of unmanned aerial systems in the National Airspace System (NAS).

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By Dee Ann Divis
GNSS Hotspots | March 2013

GNSS Hotspots | March 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. LATE LAUNCHES
Cape Canaveral and Plesetsk
√ [updated April 1] After three delays, a single GLONASS-M satellite will go up from Plesetsk space center on April 26. The United States will send up SVN66, the fourth GPSIIF satellite— on an Atlas V launcher for the first time—during the early evening of May 15. It had been delayed from March.

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By Inside GNSS
SASGI 2013: SA Surveying + Geomatic Indaba 2013
March 20, 2013

SASGI 2013: SA Surveying + Geomatic Indaba 2013

SASGI 2013 will take place at the Emperors Palace in Gauteng, South Africa on July 22, 23 and 24. The theme is Geospatial Solutions for National Development Planning.

This is the annual South African conference of surveying, geo-informatics, GIS, mapping, remote sensing and location-based business.

 

The conference is wide-ranging and will cover:

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By Inside GNSS
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HxGN Live (formerly Hexagon 2013)

HxGN Live (formerly Hexagon 2013)

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

The event’s new name is HxGN Live, or Hexagon Global Network

It will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino from June 3 through June 6, 2013.

The theme is "Great Stories Start Here" and will include 200 technical and training sessions and an industry exhibition.

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By Inside GNSS
Congress, States Proposes Bills on Location Privacy, UAVs

Congress, States Proposes Bills on Location Privacy, UAVs

Congress is moving to limit the sharing of geolocation information.

The Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act (HR 983), introduced on March 6, addresses a privacy loophole created by services like Gmail and social networking sites. Though law enforcement must get a warrant to access an archive of e-mail stored on your computer, the same protections do not exist for information voluntarily given to a third party.

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By Dee Ann Divis
Smithsonian Exhibit Opening: Time and Navigation

Smithsonian Exhibit Opening: Time and Navigation

NTS-2 on display at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian’s new exhibit on Time and Navigation will open at the National Air and Space Museum on the Mall
in Washington D.C. on April 12, 2013.

The National Museum of American History is co-producer.

It explains the relationship between precise time and the art and science of navigation, from sailing by the stars to GNSS. Its full title is "Time and Navigation: The untold story of getting from here to there."

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By Inside GNSS
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: Lecture, Film and Comments on "Time and Navigation" exhibit

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: Lecture, Film and Comments on “Time and Navigation” exhibit

Cast members get ready to film the video for “Time and Navigation,” which will explain concepts from the point of view of five characters from different historical periods(Smithsonian image)

"GPS for Humanity-The Stealth Utility" is the title of a lecture by GPS pioneer Brad Parkinson that will be webcast live at 8 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 21  from the Lockheed Martin Imax Theater at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington D.C.

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By Inside GNSS
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