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Royal Institute of Navigation: UAV NAV Symposium
March 4, 2010

Royal Institute of Navigation: UAV NAV Symposium

RIN sponsors a one-day symposium and industry exhibition on unmanned aerial vehicles, "Navigating Alone." It will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London on May 26, 2010.

The event will cover a number of navigation-related topics concerning the design and operation of UAVs, including: Mission planning, Remote control, Autonomous control, Navigation sensors and integration, Terrain mapping, Legislation and safety.

The symposium includes formal discussions and time for informal networking.

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Peter Chapman-Andrews New Director of Royal Institute of Navigation

Peter Chapman-Andrews New Director of Royal Institute of Navigation

Capt. Peter Chapman-Andrews

Peter Chapman-Andrews replaced David Broughton as director of Britain’s Royal Institute of Navigation in January. He will be the fourth director since RIN was founded in 1947.

Chapman is a graduate of Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He served as Queen’s Harbor Master, Portsmouth, and as fleet navigation officer on the staff of CinC fleet. He also served as aircraft director officer, principal warfare officer, navigation officer and ship’s commander during his career in the Royal Navy. He retired  in 2004 with the rank of captain.

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GPS Jamming and Interference Sparks UK Concerns, Technical Solutions
March 2, 2010

GPS Jamming and Interference Sparks UK Concerns, Technical Solutions

Prof. David Last at DSKTN symposium

The noise floor seems to be rising on the subject of GNSS vulnerability to  jamming and interference. Recently, the United Kingdom provided the locus for a trio of initiatives that reflect growing anxieties about the widespread global dependence of critical position, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications and infrastructures on the low-power signals from space.

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Russia Launches 3 GLONASS-M Satellites

Russia Launches 3 GLONASS-M Satellites

GLONASS launch 2008

[Updated 03:35 GMT, March 2] Russian Space Forces successfully launched three GLONASS satellites from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan on March 2, at 00:19 Moscow time (22:19 GMT, March 1).

The launch had been postponed from last September after an anomaly was discovered in one of the on-orbit space vehicles (SVs) navigation payload.

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International LIDAR Mapping Forum (IMLF) 2010

International LIDAR Mapping Forum (IMLF) 2010

The ILMF celebrates its tenth anniversary this year at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado on March 3-5.

This technical conference and exhibition will feature 30 papers, including two on how Light Detection and Ranging technology is being used in Haiti to assess damage from the recent earthquake and also the probability of future earthquakes.

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Raytheon Wins $1.5-Billion GPS OCX Contract
February 26, 2010

Raytheon Wins $1.5-Billion GPS OCX Contract

Raytheon Corporation graphic

Officials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced today (February 25) the award of the Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) contract to Raytheon Company, Intelligence & Information Systems, Aurora, Colorado.

With a baseline duration of 73 months, the OCX development contract has option years for sustainment worth a potential total of $1,535,147,916. Raytheon teammates include Boeing, ITT, Braxton Technologies, Infinity Systems Engineering, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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2010 Space Weather Workshop
February 24, 2010

2010 Space Weather Workshop

The annual Space Weather Workshop will take place at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, Colorado on April 27-30 2010. The registration deadline is April 2.

The program highlights space weather impacts in several areas, including communications, navigation, spacecraft operations, aviation, and electric power. 

At the 2010 conference, discussions of GNSS impacts will take place all morning right after the opening remarks on Tuesday, April 27.

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5th Annual Workshop: Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders

5th Annual Workshop: Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders

The Fifth Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders will take place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts on August 2-3 2010.

The keynote speaker is Jalal Mapar, program manager, DHS S&T Directorate.

The workshop will consist of presentations, demos, and working sessions and an opportunity for system developers to test and demonstrate their system using standard scenarios and scripts in a building on the WPI campus or at a fire dept training facility.

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2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

The theme of the 2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS is "At a Turning Point." It will take place at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan on October 26-28.

National Cheng Kung University is organizing and hosting the event. The symposium will be held in English.

The annual forum is open to innovative ideas on GNSS systems, techniques, applications and opportunities by researchers and engineers from academia and industry.

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