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Supreme Court Ruling on GPS-Aided Monitoring Leaves Issues Unresolved
January 26, 2012

Supreme Court Ruling on GPS-Aided Monitoring Leaves Issues Unresolved

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A U.S. Supreme Court opinion released this week (January 23, 2012) ruled that warrantless GPS-aided monitoring of a suspect violated the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures."

But it will probably not be the court’s last word on the subject and may, in fact, provide Congress and state legislatures with enough incentive to address the subject more fully than they have to date.

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By Inside GNSS
GPS – The DoD’s Profit Center
January 19, 2012

GPS – The DoD’s Profit Center

Why Washington continues to talk about deficits while the country is talking about jobs and foreclosures is kind of a mystery, but let’s play along.

Following the failure of Congress’s would-be budget-cutting committee that wasn’t so super, the Department of Defense is facing about $500 billion in mandatory cuts over the next 10 years.

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By Dee Ann Divis
ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies
January 17, 2012

ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies

Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam

A special session on Satellite Navigation Technologies will be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE) at the Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam on August 1-3.

Because South East Asia will be covered by all of the global and regional satellite navigation systems by 2015, the region will experience the multi-GNSS environment at its edge.

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By Inside GNSS
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After Longitude - Modern Navigation in Context

After Longitude – Modern Navigation in Context

Cadets with sextants circa 1930 (from National Maritime Museum collections)

The "After Longitude" symposium covers what happened in between Harrison’s clocks and geospatial PNT. It is sponsored by the British National Maritime Museum and the Royal Institute of Navigation.

The event takes place on March 22 and 23 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. 

Speakers on Thursday, March 22 will cover the earlier history of navigation. On Friday, topics include:

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By Inside GNSS
Galileo Application Congress Prague 2012
January 16, 2012

Galileo Application Congress Prague 2012

The Czech prime minister, Petr Nečas and Antonio Tajani, the European Commission vice president in charge of the Galileo program, will keynote this conference at the Prague Marriott Hotel on January 26-27, 2012.

The event celebrates the partnership between the Czech Republic and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) which will relocate from Brussels to Prague this year.

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By Inside GNSS
FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

Monte Mario, the highest hill in Rome

A special seminar for geodesists will take place in Rome, Italy on May 4 and 5, just before the 35th FIG general assembly and working week.

The conference venue is the Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario near the Vatican.

It is organized by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the surveyors’ international association (FIG) and the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG).

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By Inside GNSS
ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

Roma eventi – Fontana di Trevi conference center

The first IEEE-AESS ESTEL Conference (Europe Space and Satellite Telcommunications) will be held at Roma Eventi – Fontana di Trevi  
Conference Centre from October 2 through 5, 2012.

It is an offshoot of the Space Applications and Technologies (SAT) Expo, covering telecommunications via satellite for advanced services and applications, architectures, technologies and terminals.

The conference will be held in English. Abstract submissions have closed.

The technical program will cover five major areas:

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By Inside GNSS
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Hexagon 2012

Hexagon 2012

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.

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By Inside GNSS
Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

European Space Agency’s ESTEC in Noordwijk
European Space Agency’s ESTEC in Noordwijk

NavtechGPS will offer a four-day public venue course from March 5 though 8 at the European Space Agency’s Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

"Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals" (Course 541) will be taught by John Betz, MITRE and James Sennott, Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc.

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By Inside GNSS
AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2012
January 15, 2012

AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America 2012

AUVSI 2011 exhibit floor (photo by Roger L. Wollenberg)

The 2012 Unmanned Systems North America exhibition and conference sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 6 -9 at Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas.

It features  technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems market. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.

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By Inside GNSS
New Austerity Squeezes GPS as DoD Tightens Its Belt

New Austerity Squeezes GPS as DoD Tightens Its Belt

Embracing the need for debt-driven discipline, the White House has revised its strategy for the nation’s defense, taking a more fiscally constrained approach that reduces the number of troops and future spending on defense systems.

The new plan, formally announced January 5, was already being put into effect last summer. “The strategic guid­ance was the compass by which we steered the budget review leading to the president’s budget for fiscal year ‘13 and the years thereafter,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter told reporters.

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By Dee Ann Divis
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