Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The GPS community is seething over a January 26 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) giving a conditional go ahead to a new broadband network with the potential to overwhelm GPS receivers across the country.
By Dee Ann Divis
Galileo Test and Development Environment (GATE) Photo: iFENThe 2011 International Summer School on GNSS will take place July 20 to July 30 at the GATE facility in Berchtesgaden, Germany. GATE is the German Galileo Test and Development Environment that opened in February.
By Inside GNSS
The International Committee on GNSS (ICG), is a voluntary United Nations–backed association that brings together GNSS and augmentation providers — including the United States, Russia, European Union, China, India, and Japan — and associate members representing key user communities.
By Inside GNSS
A Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter demonstrates the use of GPS technology at a previous GPS Partnership Council meeting. (Photo: Joe Juarez)Registration is now open for the 2011 GPS Partnership Council meeting on Tuesday, May 3 and Wednesday, May 4 at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California.
These military and industry networking meetings, now in their 11th year, are sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications Electronics Association) and the USAF GPS Directorate, formerly the GPS Wing.
By Inside GNSS
The Geospatial Building at the University of NottinghamA two-day workshop on GNSS receivers will take place at the Geospatial Building at the University of Nottingham Innovation Park on April 14 and 15, 2011.
In addition to talks by GNSS experts, the workshop features product demonstrations, using the test facilitiies at GRACE, the GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence. These include GPS and Galileo full constellation Spirent simulator, signal record and replay devices and the roof-based fixed test track designed for dynamic research and testing.
By Inside GNSS
The 2011 EU GNSS Receiver Workshop will take place at the University of Nottingham’s Geospatial Building on April 14 and 15.
In addition to talks, the event features project demonstrations that make use of the GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence (GRACE) test facilities. These include a GPS and Galileo full constellation Spirent simulator, signal record and replay devices and the roof-based fixed test track designed for dynamic research and testing.
By Inside GNSS
U.S. Capitol rotunda. Photo: Architect of the CapitolSpace-Based PNT, National Executive Committee Public Release (March 14)
By Inside GNSS
The third international colloquium on scientific and fundamental aspects of the Galileo program will take place at the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen, Denmark from August 31-September 2, 2011.
The deadline for receiving paper abstracts has been extended until April 15, 2011 and may be submitted online.
Fira de Barcelona, Monjuic venueThe GlobalGEO Fair will take place in the Monjuic Venue, Hall 6 at Fira de Barcelona exhibition center in Barcelona, Spain from March 15 to March 17.
The fair features the latest products for GPS navigation, 3D mapping, geographic information systems, photogrammetry, teledetection, geodesics, topography, satellite navigation, intelligent transport systems and communications.
By Inside GNSS
Aroused by the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) waiver of limits on ancillary terrestrial components (ATCs) for LightSquared’s proposed 40,000-transmitter network, representatives from a wide variety of industries and companies announced today (March 10, 2011) formation of the “Coalition to Save Our GPS.”
By Inside GNSS
Martyn Thomas, RAE GNSS Study Group ChairmanRelease of a British Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) report today (March 8, 2011) adds another chapter to the growing chronicle of GNSS vulnerability — concluding that the integrity of GNSS is insufficient for safety-of-life applications.
By Inside GNSS
Despite the fact that China’s rapidly developing global navigation satellite system now has seven spacecraft in orbit intermittently broadcasting test signals, it is the only GNSS provider that has not yet published a draft version of its interface control document (ICD), although one has reportedly been completed for more than a year.
Against that background, any new source of information about the directions of the Compass design — official, semi-official, or other — draws special attention.
By Inside GNSS
Photo: Wikimedia CommonsAttorneys for LightSquared Subsidiary LLC submitted a proposed work plan on Friday (February 25, 2011) for analyzing potential interference to GPS devices. The plan, required by the FCC as a condition of its granting a waiver to its Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) rule for mobile satellite services (MSS), proposes to establish a working group (WG) to study the GPS overload/desensitization.
By Inside GNSS
