Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) provisionally certified the nation’s Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) — the GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system — to RNP0.1 (Required Navigation Performance, 0.1 Nautical Mile) service level on December 30, 2013.
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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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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:
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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The eDLoran receiver including antenna is mounted in a standard enclosure (14x14x10cm) for GPS-RTK equipment provided by AD Navigation (Norway)The Dutch Pilots Corporation and Reelektronika announced today (January 7, 2014) the successful development and test of an Enhanced Differential Loran (eDLoran) backup to GNSS in The Netherlands.
Trials at sea and in the Rotterdam Europort harbor area met the requirement for absolute accuracies in the five-meter range, according to Durk van Willigen, CEO of Reelektronika, and Wim van Buuren, Loodswezen’s information & communications technology (ICT) and innovation manager and board member.
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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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The nation’s leading GPS experts are struggling to quantify how the world’s premier navigation and timing system affects the U.S. economy, an effort critical to building a political firewall around GPS spectrum in the face of ballooning demand for broadband capacity.
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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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Crowdsourcing has gained some attention in the GNSS community as a means for detecting and mitigating RF interference and signal spoofing.
In the past year, researchers and commercial ventures have developed ways to take advantage of the GNSS-derived knowledge of real-time location of participants to create ad hoc networks of couriers.
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Lawmakers are poised to sharply limit the ability of foreign nations to own or control satellite system monitoring stations on U.S. territory, a rare show of congressional cooperation triggered by a Russian request to place stations supporting its satellite navigation system on American soil.
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The International IEEE Workshop on Asia-Pacific Satellite Navigation and Positioning will be held at CSIRO Centre for Advanced Technologies,
Pullenvale, outside Brisbane, Australia on February 27 to March 1, 2014.
The deadlines for abstract submission and registration are both January 30, 2014.
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The 6th Conference on European Union Space Policy will take place at the European Commission’s Charlemagne Building, in Brussels, Belgium on January 28 and 29, 2014.
Registration is now open. Online registration closes January 22, 2014.
The theme is "What Direction for Europe in Space Between Now and 2020?." The conference is sponsored by the presidents of the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament.
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Horizon 2020 (H2020), the new incarnation of European Commission–funded research and innovation programs, has issued its first call for applications in satellite navigation.
The relatively modest — €38 million (US$52 million) out of a total of €70 billion (US$92 billion) for the period 2014–2020 — represents an initial round of invitations for R&D proposals that previously were distributed under the framework programs (FPs). The deadline for submitting proposals is April 3, 2014.
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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
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√ 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.
