Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin have successfully completed the first launch readiness exercise for the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS III satellites.
By Inside GNSS
Beijing central business district ???????ICG-7 is scheduled for November 5-9 2012. It will be hosted by China and will take place at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) in the Asian Games Village section of the city. The chair of ICG-7 is Ran Chengqi, director general of the Chinese Satellite Navigation Office (CSNO).
The International Symposium on GPS/GNSS 2012 will take place on October 31, November 1 and November 2 in Xi’an, China.
The conference venue is Tianyu Gloria Grand Hotel Xian.
The event is organized by organized by College of Geology Engineering
and Geomatics, Chang’an University, the International Association of
Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) and the
National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has told those awaiting their slice of the GPS civil program budget that the funds are on the way.
The money, which is supposed to support that portion of the GPS program springing from the needs of civilian users, has been held up for months. In fact, as of late August — with less than 40 days left to go in the fiscal year — the money had not been transferred to either the military’s GPS Directorate or the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT).
By Dee Ann Divis
Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Hein, head of Europe’s Galileo Operations and Evolution.
By Inside GNSS
This article describes an integration of a single-frequency GNSS, two-antenna heading system with low-cost inertial and magnetic field sensors in order to improve the availability and reliability of pure GNSS attitude determination. This method calculates a redundant attitude solution in an error-state Kalman filter using different sensor setups. As a result, the process of carrier phase ambiguity resolution accelerates.
By Inside GNSS
TABLE 1. Spoofer antenna requirements for various hardened GPS signal types
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn’t.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Is our faith in the integrity and infallibility of the Global Positioning System misplaced or, perhaps, insufficiently grounded?
By Inside GNSS
El Centro Europeo de Astronomía Espacial (ESAC) Organized by the European Space Agency with the collaboration of a number of national space organizations, this intensive course will cover GNSS error sources related to radiowave propagation and interference effects.
It is aimed at engineers, geodesists, physicists and advanced students with appropriate degrees and a knowledge of GNSS fundamentals, statistics and signal processing.
By Inside GNSS
The 44rd PTTI systems and applications meeting and industry exhibit will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center in Reston, Virginia on November 26-29, 2012.
PTTI 2012 will address time and frequency standards; time transfer theory, techniques and applications; PTTI in current applications; atomic and advanced clocks; time scales, algorithms and methods; GNSS receivers timing and calibration; military applications; and novel applications using PTTI.
By Inside GNSS
Noordwijk beach in December"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: Galileo’s Here" is the theme of the 6th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.
The European Space Agency event will be held from December 5 to 7, 2012 at ESTEC, at the northern tip of Noordwijk, Netherlands.
Online registration is open until December 4 at the website below. After that, you must register at the conference itself.
By Inside GNSS
Marriott Waikiki BeachIt’s a big year for the Institute of Navigation, with the venerable ION GNSS 2012 happening this September in Nashville and the new and highly anticipated Pacific PNT conference opening for the first time next April in Honolulu.
ION GNSS 2012, the granddaddy of all GNSS events, begins shortly in Music City, USA: Nashville, Tennessee.
It’s scheduled during the third week of September at the downtown Nashville Convention Center, a five minute walk to the Country Music Hall of Fame and other attractions.
By Inside GNSS
Nominal architecture of a GPS/Galileo PRS receiverThe United States and the European Union are talking about how U.S. agencies might use the secure signal planned for Galileo to better fulfill their various responsibilities.
By Dee Ann Divis
