Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
In an effort to improve constellation sustainment, on or about Feb. 1, 2012, SVN-49 will resume transmitting an L-band signal using PRN24 as a test asset, according to the U.S. Air Force Space Command. Upon completion of the test event, SVN-49 will once again be decommissioned from active service. PRN24 will then once again be available for future satellite service.
By Inside GNSS
GPS and other space systems fare well in the Department of Defense (DoD) strategic budget initiative outlined today (January 26, 2012) by U.S. civil and military officials.
The comments reflected policy decisions laid out in “Defense Budget Priorities and Choices,” an introduction to a strategic guidance intended to plot the course of the Pentagon over the next five years. Modernization of the Global Positioning System will be “protected” financially, according to the document.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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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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.
By Inside GNSS
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:
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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).
By Inside GNSS
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:
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
The president’s top advisors on navigation policy said today (January 13, 2012) that “no practical solutions or mitigation” would enable a proposed broadband network to co-exist near-term with GPS-based devices, including several systems needed for aviation safety.
By Inside GNSS
