Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Re-enactment of Washington’s Crossing. State of New Jersey photoLockheed Martin Space Systems bestowed a $400,000 Christmas present on a Pennsylvania park district, helping preserve the organization’s 57-year-old tradition of re-enacting Gen. George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 during the Revolutionary War.
By Inside GNSS
President Obama signed the Fiscal Year (FY10) consolidated appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) on Wednesday (December 16), which will fund a number of civil GPS initiatives in the coming year.
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Want to win $40k? DARPA gives you one day to locate 10 of these 8-foot weather balloons moored across the USA(Updated December 7, 2009) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team won the DARPA Network Challenge on Saturday, December 5. They took home a $40,000 cash prize from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The team successfully located 10 eight-foot diameter, bright red weather balloons moored in plain site at locations across the United States.
Apparently, the DARPA personnel in charge were sensitive to frigid winter weather in the heartland – most of the balloons turned out to be moored in pleasant places for an outdoor December search: Portland, Oregon; San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Katy, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Christiana, Delaware.
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Trimble will hold its first user conference in China on December 15-17 at the Jiuhua Resort and Conference Center in Beijing. It will cover civilian technology only.
The theme "Exploration Has No Boundaries," draws comparisons between 15th century navigator Zhenghe, the 2008 space mission Shenqui, and the use of positioning technology to steer exploration.
Trimble head Steve Bergland will deliver one of the conference keynotes.
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NavTechGPS will offer GNSS tutorials on February 22-26 2010 at the Hotel Solamar in San Diego, California. They are:
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NAV09, the Royal Institute of Navigation’s annual conference, will be
held at four different locations covering five different areas of navigation throughout November.
November 10: Maritime
"Shipbourne Navigation – What’s Coming Next?"
Southampton Solent University Conference Centre.
November 12: Positioning and Location
"Now and into the Future. Looking Beyond the Horizon"
University of Nottingham.
November 19: Land
The fourth European workshop on GNSS signals and signal processing will take place at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany on Thursday and Friday, December 10-11 2009.
The keynote speech on “European GNSS Programs Status and Perspectives on Signals” will be given by Frédéric Bastide, European Commission (DG-Energy & Transport).
The full program can be downloaded from the website below.
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The international Symposium on GNSS, Space-based and Ground-based Augmentation Systems and Applications 2009 will take place at the Rathaus Wilmersdorf, Fehrbelliner Platz 4, in Berlin from Monday, November 30 through Wednesday, December 2.
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Spirent Federal Systems specializes in GPS and GNSS test technology. Its GNSS test systems can be tailored for government or industry needs, including support for encrypted military codes, interference simulation, commercial GPS applications and high dynamic testing. The company will hold identical training conferences this year on the East and West coasts.
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The 2010 International Symposium on Certification of GNSS Systems and Services (CERGAL) will take place from April 28-29, 2010 in Rostock, on the Baltic Sea in the north of Germany.
The event includes a technical program and an industry exhibition.
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Spirent Federal Systems specializes in GPS and GNSS test technology. Its GNSS test systems can be tailored for government or industry needs, including support for encrypted military codes, interference simulation, commercial GPS applications and high dynamic testing. The company will hold identical training conferences this year on the East and West coasts.
The West Coast conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Anaheim/Orange County, Anaheim, California.
By Inside GNSS
Torino, ItalyThe International Committee on GNSS (ICG), is a voluntary United Nations–backed association that brings together GNSS and augmentation providers — including the United States, Russia, European Union, China, India, and Japan — and associate members representing key user communities.
The group will hold their fifth meeting at the International Training Center in Turin, Italy on October 18-22, 2010. It will be hosted by Italy and the European Union.
Sessions include discussions of GNSS technology in an era of multi-gnss receivers and timing,
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L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC) has announced that its latest modernized GPS receiver has successfully acquired and tracked live block IIR-M satellite M-Code (pseudo–M-Code) signals indicating proper operation of many receiver functions.
