Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Figure 1; Tables 1 & 2After some years of concept studies and simulations, the Galileo Commercial Service is taking off. The journey has started toward what can be the most accurate and secure worldwide satellite-based navigation services for civil use.
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Running San Francisco Marathon, with daughter, Tanera. Note GPS watch.SIDEBAR: Frank van Diggelen’s Compass Points
“It all traces back to my parents,” says Frank van Diggelen. “My father, Tromp van Diggelen, was a surfer. He taught me to surf and swim, in that order, when I was five. I was racing sailboats before I was 10, and there’s a lot of navigation there. Even when you’re just on a lake, the racing is all about reading the wind, understanding angles of convergence, velocity-made-good, and so on.”
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College Hall at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, EnglandTerry Moore will speak about "What Next for GNSS" at the Royal Institute of Navigation Anderson Memorial Lecture at Whittle Hall, RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincs, U.K. on March 2, 2015.
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The Waldspirale in DarmstadtThe 2015 CERGAL conference will be held in Darmstadt, Germany on July 7 and 8, 2015.
Qualification and certification of mission and safety critical applications are major milestones in the successful operational rollout of Satellite Navigation systems like GPS/EGNOS, Galileo, GLONASS and Beidou. This symposium will concentrate on measures already established and future activities that will assure SATNAV systems certification and operational safety.
This year’s main topics include:
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Rathaus (City Hall) in ViennaThe 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly and exhibition will take place in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from April 12 – 17, 2015.
The early registration deadline is March 12, 2015. The program will be available after February 25.
Session topics of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS include:
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Atlanta Botanical Garden canopy walkThe 2015 Unmanned Systems conference and trade show sponsored by AUVSI will be held from May 4 – 7 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The call for papers has closed. Registration information will be available in January.
The conference features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems and robotics industry. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.
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A popular stolby for climbing, near the city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The United Nations/Russian Federation Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems will take place in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, from May 18 – 22, 2015.
The completed application form, together with a presentation abstract, should be submitted online to the Office for Outer Space Affairs no later than Friday, February 27, 2015.
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Altes Schloss, Stuttgart, GermanyThe 2015 InterGEO Trade Fair and Conference for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will take place at Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany from September 15 to 17, 2015.
It attracts 16,000 visitors from 92 countries who work in the surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry fields. This is the event’s 21st year.
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Bayshore Boulevard, Tampa, FloridaION GNSS+ 2015 will take place at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida from September 14 through 18. Tutorials will take place on September 14 and 15. The exhibit hall will be open on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Abstract Submission Deadline has passed.
Early bird registration ends August 14, 2015.
The conference is now called ION GNSS+ to highlight its expanded emphasis on GNSS and the rapidly evolving field of alternative navigation methods.
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Irving LevesonA new study is underway to estimate the economic benefit of GPS and quantify what’s at stake if anything interferes with its navigation signals.
Launched at the request of the National Executive Committee (ExCom) for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), the first segment of the two-part study would look at major uses of GPS. It will estimate the benefits derived from the system and describe the costs that would be incurred if GPS became unavailable, compiling the results in an interim report.
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New competitive demands and regulatory requirements are driving financial firms around the world to use highly precise timestamps on incoming information and transactions, a trend likely to push firms to adopt a common time source like GPS.
Hexagon AB’s HxGN Live 2015 conference will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 1 – 4, 2015.
Registration is now open. Priority Rate ends January 12, and the Early Bird rate end February 23, 2015.
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