Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Navigation users may benefit from GPS modernization sooner than expected thanks to an apparent shift in the schedule of the modernized GPS ground control segment still under development.
The change means that full operational implementation of the new signals will come earlier in the delayed modernization of the operational control Segment (OCS).
By Dee Ann Divis
The world’s four GNSS programs aren’t exactly a classical quartet, weaving Mozart stanzas in disciplined execution.
By Inside GNSS
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US), of Englewood, Colorado, to investigate cost reduction and augmentation of the current GPS constellation through the application of a small satellite approach.
AFRL has contracted with SST-US to identify and analyze how small satellites can improve aspects of GPS system performance, such as accuracy, coverage, and robustness at costs far below those of past procurements.
By Inside GNSS
View of Pevchesky Lane from Malaya Posadskaya (Wikimedia, photo by Lisidze)The 20th St. Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems (МКИНС2013) will take place at Elektrobribor company, the Russian Federation State Research Center, on May 27-29, 2013.
Conference topics will cover civil uses and aspects of:
By Inside GNSS
The 2013 European Geosciences Union General Assembly and exhibition will take place in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from April 7 through April 12.
The event attracts more than 11,000 geoscientists from all over the world. The official language is English. The early registration deadline is March 13. The program will be available after March 25.
By Inside GNSS
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).
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
Deira neighborhood in DubaiThe 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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
