Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
“Science City” campus of ETH, ZurichThe International 2010 PIN Conference and industry exhibition will take place at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Zurich, Switzerland from September 15 to 17 2010.
Organizers call it the largest meeting dedicated entirely to indoor positioning, with 196 announced abstracts from 36 countries.
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Solar flare (NASA)The 7th Space Weather Week will take place at Congress Centre Oud Sint-Jan in Bruges, Belgium from November 15 to 19 2010. The purpose is to bring the various countries and institutions of Europe together on space weather issues that concern them all.
It is organized by the European Space Agency, the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence, and the European Commission COST office.
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The 17th conference on "The Role of Navigation in Support of Human Activity" will be held in Gdynia, Poland from September 23 to 25 2010. An industry exhibition is part of the event.
The conference will cover the latest developments in navigation and positioning on the water, on land and in the air.
The event targets scientists, engineers from Poland and Europe.
May 15 2010 is the deadline for applications and submission of abstracts.
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The Telematics Detroit 2010 Conference and Exhibition covers the digital in-car and mobile industries. It will take place on June 8-9 at The Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Michigan.
The event features two days of keynotes with senior-level speakers from Ford, Mercedes Benz, BMW NA, Google, Yahoo! Geo Technologies, Wireless Car, T-Mobile, Continental, Garmin, Nokia, General Motors, U. Michigan Transportation Research and others.
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A DGAC ATR42 test aircraft lands at Limoges airport during EGNOS trials. (ESA photo)The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), on behalf of the European Commission, has launched an Internet portal for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) designed to help developers and entrepreneurs vying for a slice of the emerging satellite navigation market.
The European counterpart to the U.S. GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), EGNOS is a satellite-based augmentation system that provides real-time differential corrections and integrity information about GPS operations.
Aerial shot of Krk Island in the AdriaticThe third GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions conference, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation, will focus on all aspects of satellite navigation, but particularly these subjects:
It will take place from September 5-8 2010 on the resort island of Krk during the Adriatic high season.
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UPINLBS 2010 will take place on October 14-15 at the Hotel Majvik, an Art Nouveau castle near Helsinki, Finland. The conference fee includes transportation between downtown and the conference venue.
Session topics at this international event include multi-constellation GNSS issues, wireless network and sensor fusion, 3D modelling/mapping for indoor navigation applications and more.
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Shanghai World Expo 2010The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) will hold a technical forum for scientists and engineers within China and internationally on satellite navigation and positioning on August 18-20 2010.
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The ENC GNSS 2010 will be held at the Stadhalle Braunschweig, Germany on October 19-21.
The main topics will be Galileo system and segment technology, status and interoperability of the GNSSes and augmentation systems, GNSS integration with communications and other terrestrial systems and GIS, developments in navigation instruments, transport and mobility and more.
Paper abstracts must be submitted by April 16 2010. Peter Vörsman, DGON, is the program committee chair.
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The 2010 Joint Navigation Conference (Guidance, Navigation and Control) will take place at Wyndham Orlando Resort in Florida, USA from June 7 to June 10, 2010.
The conference theme is "Military Navigation Technology: The Foundation of Military Ops." It is cohosted by the Joint Service Data Exchange (JSDE) and the Institute of Navigation (ION) for the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
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"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: The Beginning of a New Age" is the theme of the 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.
In addition to multi-GNSS issues, the event will focus on signal design, signal processing, GNSS payload technology effects and integration of navigation technologies with communication services.
The European Space Agency event will be held from December 8 to 10, 2010 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
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GLONASS-K satelliteThree GLONASS-M satellites launched March 2 began transmitting healthy navigation messages today (March 28).
The Russian GNSS operational constellation now includes 23 spacecraft, including two spares in orbital plane III, slots 22 and 23, as well as GLONASS space vehicle 716, which remains in maintenance status with a malfunctioning signal generator.
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IET Headquarters, LondonThe Institution of Engineering and Technology’s April seminar on Galileo and GNSS includes what organizers call a "rare chance" to hear the UK government’s point of view on key challenges and funding of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system over the next twelve months.
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