Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
STOP GPS-based monitoring device(Updated May 22) Amid a growing controversy over GNSS-aided tracking of private citizens, a recent study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) may point toward a politically acceptable, large — and largely untapped — market: monitoring criminals released early from prison.
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An afternoon at the 2011 symposiumThe Inertial Sensors and Systems symposium will take place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 18 and 19, 2012. The conference will be held in English.
At this conference, formerly the Symposium Gyro Technology, the latest state of inertial sensors and navigation systems as well as gyro technology will be presented.
This includes applications of this technology, the development of new systems, components and test procedures as well as investigations on cost and marketing aspects.
Ceremonial room in the Mysore Palace, now a public museum.The 39th scientific assembly of COSPAR, the Committee On Space Research, willl take place from July 14 to July 22, 2012 at the Global Education Centre-2, Infosys Training Centre, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore is known as the "City of Palaces."
The topics are fundmentals and relevance of space science and technological innovations and applications. Of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS are sessions on atomic clocks, space weather, space debris, satellite dynamic and the ionosphere.
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Calle peatonal Lota Bajo (Photo: Jorge González)SIRGAS 2012, the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system for the Americas, will be held at the Universidad de Concepción auditorium in Concepción, Chile October 29 through 31, 2012.
The event will also be hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Militar of Chile.
In addition to the meeting sessions, a technical visit to the Transportable Integrated Geodetic Observatory (TIGO) of the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) is scheduled.
The Pyramid, a Karlsruhe landmarkIEEE’s giant robotics conference comes to Karlsruhe, Germany in 2013, with the theme "Anthropomatics-Technologies for Humans."
The event will take place at the Karlsruhe convention center (Knogresszentrum Karlsruhe) on May 6-10, 2013.
The conference covers every possible aspect of robotics development from body form and movement, programming and learning, hardware and software to lots of positioning, navigation and timing aspects.
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Billed as the "First International Conference" on new trends and applications of GNSS, this new event is sponsored and organized by the Space Science Center at Cairo University.
It will take place at Cairo University in Giza city from September 1 to 4 2012. The conference language is English.
Paper abstracts are due by July 15, midnight Cairo Standard Time. Submit them online at the website below.
With more services and signals, the GNSS landscape is changing and new trends and applications must be considered.
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High Gate in Old Town, OlsztynThe 2012 IGS workshop will take place at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland from July 23 to 27.
The topic areas are:
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The National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) offers this comprehensive course on clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, quantum information and more for those who work with time and frequency systems at all levels of experience.
The seminar will take place June 5 through 8 at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado, source of the United States’ official time.
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One of the natural wonders of Jeju island.The 2012 Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, previously known as the GNSS Workshop, will be held on November 8 and 9 at Phoenix Island resort on Jeju, Korea.
The general chair is Philho Peter Park, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.
The event has been held since 1994, when Korea’s GPS Technology Council (now GNSS) was established.
While the English language website has some information on deadlines and conference history, information on papers and registration is available in Korean only.
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MBOC signal at top, BOC (1,1) at bottom(Updated May 21) U.S. warfighters could be affected and European navigation users could end up paying more if the British are able to enforce a patent on technology at the heart of the new GPS and Galileo civil signals.
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The launch of the first GPS III satellite has slipped to 2015 and completion of the ground control system is now delayed by up to two years, according to the chief of the Air Force’s space operations
“We’ll be ready to launch the first GPS III in 2015, but it now appears the next generation GPS Operational Control System, or OCX, won’t be ready for about a year or two after that,” General William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command told attendees at the 28th Annual National Space Symposium.
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Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation OfficeChina will launch another three satellites for the BeiDou-2 (Compass) system by the end of the year, according to officials speaking today (May 18, 2012) at the China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2012) in Guangchou.
Meanwhile, in comments quoted by People’s Daily Online edition, the system is expected to be adopted by some of China’s neighboring countries in the next year or two. People’s Daily is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.
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Thwarted thus far in efforts to convert satellite spectrum into a terrestrial service, LightSquared Inc. and 19 affiliates have filed for bankruptcy. But the would-be wireless broadband provider said it had not abandoned efforts to build out a nationwide network of transmitters that extensive tests have shown would interfere with GPS receivers.
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