Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The 2013 Geospatial World Forum and industry exhibition will be held at the Beurs – World Trade Center in the international port city of Rotterdam on May 13-16.
This year’s theme is "Monetizing Geospatial Value and Practices." The keynote speakers are Chris Gibson, vice president of Trimble and Mark Reichardt, president and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
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This five-day workshop is one of several sponsored by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations in various European countries. The workshops will give participants an overview of GNSS systems and applications with the aim of strengthening a network of national reference stations and promoting the interoperability of navigation, positioning and timing systems in the region.
The UN/Croatia workshop will take place on Baška, Krk Island on April 21-25, 2013.
It is free.
The third symposium on Enhanced Solutions for Aircraft and Vehicle Surveillance Applications will take place at the MARITIM proArte Hotel in Berlin, germany on March 20 and 21, 2013. The event will be held in English. It is organized by the German Institute of Navigation (DGON).
This emerging field of next-generation surveillance is driven by increasing air traffic volume, business demands for increased capacity and efficiency and citizen and government concerns about emissions and other environmental pressures.
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A free three-day program on "GNSS Integrity Monitoring" will take place at Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) at 7, Ave. Edouard Belin in Toulouse on June 18, 19 and 20, 2013.
This is third course in the EU’s GENIUS project series of 3-day GNSS training programs for professionals. Five are scheduled in 2013 and five in 2014.
The instructors are Dr. Christophe Macabiu, head of ENAC’s Telecom lab, Dr. Anaïs Martineau, head of the Electronics, Electromagnetism and Signal division of ENAC and Prof. Carl Milner, also of ENAC Telecom lab.
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A free three-day program on "GNSS Receiver Signal Processing for Current and Future Signals"will take place at the European GNSS Agency offices in Brussels (Rue de la loi, 56) on April 2, 3 and 4, 2013.
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The European Commission and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) introduce the GENIUS project’s series of 3-day GNSS training programs for professionals. Five are scheduled in 2013 and five in 2014.
The first program is "Fundamentals of GNSS." It will take place at GSA headquarters in Prague on March 4,5 and 6, 2013.
The eighth meeting of the International Committee on GNSS will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 10 through November 14 2013.
The meeting’s co-director is Mr. Saleem H. Al Marri, director of the Space Program Department, EIAST, Dubai.
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UrsaNav, Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire the assets of Loran-C pioneer Megapulse, Inc., of Bedford, Massachusetts, with the transaction expected to close this quarter.
Megapulse’s general area of business is low-frequency (LF)
radionavigation, position-fIxing, orientation, and time transfer
systems, with primary product and service lines in Loran and enhanced
Loran (eLoran). Since the 1970s, all Loran transmitter systems installed
were of Megapulse design.
GPS contractors are scrambling to assess new Pentagon budget-cutting directives that have the potential to slow GPS modernization.
The belt-tightening is in response to a three-way fiscal vise created by the failure of Congress and the White House to agree on a budget for this year, on a new limit for the nation’s debt, and on a plan to implement future budget cuts.
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The United States and United Kingdom announced today (January 17, 2013) that the British government would end its efforts to obtain patent or intellectual property (IP) rights related to GPS.
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GNSS positioning, navigation and timing applications are vulnerable to malicious, accidental and space weather threats – but what can be done?
Rear Admiral Nick Lambert will keynote this one-day seminar on threat detection and mitigation techniques for civil use at the National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington on February 13.
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NovAtel has announced support for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System on its OEM6 family and selected OEMStar GNSS receivers.
The long-anticipated BeiDou Interface Control Document (ICD) release is a
significant milestone that facilitates global acceptance of the Chinese
GNSS system into the growing range of satellite-based positioning
applications, the company says.
China’s transport authorities have announced that certain commerical vehicles in parts of the nation are now required to use the homegrown BeiDou GNSS system, Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, reported on Monday (January 14, 2013).
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