Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Two powerful lawmakers are weighing rewriting the rules for the way frequencies are allocated as part of an overhaul of the nation’s telecommunications laws. The effort, which is likely to see legislation drafted next year, is considering options such as flexible licensing and receiver standards that could directly affect the GPS community.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation is partnering with the publisher of Inside GNSS to produce, publish, and distribute an expanded Show Daily publication at this year’s ION GNSS+ 2014 event taking place September 9–12 in Tampa, Florida. The alliance will leverage the magazine’s many years of publishing expertise to advance the business interests of exhibitors and attendees.
By Inside GNSS
Harbinger Capital Partners, a hedge fund controlled by Phil Falcone that acted as the primary financial backer of LightSquared, is suing the United States government over the failure of the proposed terrestrial broadband wireless network that would have broadcast in RF spectrum adjacent to GNSS L1 frequencies.
By Inside GNSS
The 2014 InterGEO Trade Fair and Conference for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will take place at Messe Berlin in Berlin, Germany from October 7 to 9, 2014.
It attracts 16,000 visitors from 92 countries who work in
the surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry fields.
This is the event’s 20th year.
By Inside GNSS
[Updated June 16, 2014] Sources in Brussels say the recently reported “power loss” that threatens to end the brief transmission life of Galileo GSAT0104, the fourth Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellite, has nothing to do with the onboard atomic clocks, but could have been caused by a failure in the components linked to the solid-state power amplifier (SSPA), including the output multiplexer, cables and/or antenna.
By Inside GNSS
Aerial view of ICTPA weeklong workshop on GNSS and its scientific applications in low-latitude regions of the world will be held in Trieste, Italy at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) on December 1-5, 2014.
The five-day event will be held in English. It is sponsored by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and organized by the USA and European Commission through the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG).
By Inside GNSS
The 4th international conference on ERA-GLONASS will take place at the World Trade Center in Moscow, Russia on October 8.
The theme of the conference is "ERA-GLONASS modern technologies for the ensuring of road safety and comfort."
By Inside GNSS
View from the 7th floor of the Centre de CongresThe 2015 European Navigation Conference will take place at the Centre de Congrès Cité Mondiale in Bordeaux France on April 7, 8, 9 and 10.
This year, the conference is organized by TOPOS Aquitaine and the Institut Français de Navigation (IFN). The annual event is sponsored by the European Group of Institutes of Navigation (EUGIN).
A plenary session will be held on the status
of the major GNSS programs and several sessions in parallel will deal
with current topics in navigation.
By Inside GNSS
This one-day seminar on Reference Frames, Positioning and Navigation will be held on September 3, during the Nordic Geodetic Commission (NKG) General Assembly, which runs from September 1 through 4 at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg.
By Inside GNSS
San Jose, California–based InvenSense, Inc. announced today (July 7, 2014) that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trusted Positioning Inc. (TPI), a privately-held indoor/outdoor positioning software company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Movea, a provider of software for low-power location, activity tracking, and context sensing.
By Inside GNSS
Federal aviation officials appear to be moving quickly to defuse mounting pressure for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft, clarifying their authority over such aircraft and starting the public process for licensing small firms for limited operations.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken a tough stance in its interpretation of the legal uses for model aircraft published on June 23 in the Federal Register. The issue surged into the national spotlight when the agency failed to win a legal challenge over its authority to regulate such devices.
By Inside GNSS
In response to the ongoing federal budget squeeze, the U.S. Air Force is restructuring the contract for developing its new GPS ground system, a move that could further delay its completion.
The Air Force has asked Raytheon, its contractor for the Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX), to develop an alternative plan in light of fiscal limitations.
“The current baseline approach is unaffordable” given the funding constraints and “appears to be a much higher risk,” said Steve Moran, the director of GPS Mission Solutions at Raytheon.
By Inside GNSS
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision issued last Wednesday (June 25, 2014) listed the history of precise locations contained in the phone as an example of the information that individuals have a right to have protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
The decision, delivered by Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., addressed two cases in which cell phones were seized in unrelated incidents and ruled that the contents of cell phones are generally covered by the Fourth Amendment.
