Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Averna has announced that its Universal Receiver Tester (URT) NAVigation Advanced SIMulator (NAVASIM) now includes the GeoBase toolkit from Telogis.
By Inside GNSS
The tenth GPS Partnership Council meeting will take place at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, on May 4 and 5, 2010.
The theme is "Advancing PNT Changes Today…Securing the World’s Needs Tomorrow." Conference sessions will take place at the Gordon Conference Center (Building 270).
By Inside GNSS
(This article first appeared in the March 31 Inside GNSS SIGNALS eNewsletter)
The GPS Wing is in the middle of a yearlong process designed to sort out the trade-offs among a set of at least nine options that may be undertaken to reduce the effects of a signal anomaly on the GPS satellite known as SVN49.
In a March 26 teleconference, the first of two scheduled to discuss the options, Lt. Col. James Lake, the wing’s deputy chief engineer, emphasized that some of the options could well improve the performance of some receivers while decreasing that of others.
He underlined the Air Force’s concern that receivers that don’t conform to the specification for GPS space segment/navigation user interfaces (IS-GPS-200) "greatly complicate the issue."
By Inside GNSS
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits the Geospatial Building at the University of Nottingham. Photo courtesy of GRACE(This article first appeared in the March 31 Inside GNSS SIGNALS eNewsletter)
Driven in part by a prestigious Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (Space IGS) report suggesting that the nation has lost both the best industrial work and the ability to influence programs such as Galileo, the United Kingdom will establish a new national space agency on April 1.
By Inside GNSS
CDGPS coverage map. NRCan imageThe Canada-wide DGPS Service (CDGPS), a free GNSS augmentation system initiated by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) in 2003, will be decommissioned by March 31, 2011, according to Gary Sawayama, the system’s general manager.
The CDGPS L-band broadcast has been carried by SkyTerra Communications Inc.’s MSAT communications satellites, which are expected to be replaced this year by the next-generation SkyTerra satellites. Significant new investment in infrastructural changes would be required to migrate to a new communication satellite.
By Inside GNSS
Listen to TIMATION II, recorded September 30, 1969 on 137.380 MHz in AM/FM by Mike D. Kenny*
Roger Easton, who led development of the TIMATION system, one of the forerunner systems to GPS, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame today (March 31).
Always good to see GNSS play a big part in the storyline of popular fiction, even when it exhibits qualities unmatched by performance in the real world.
Just because it’s popular fiction doesn’t mean it has to be science fiction.
By Inside GNSS
“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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
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.
By Inside GNSS
