Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
ION GNSS+ 2016: GNSS + Other Sensors in Today’s Marketplace will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from September 12 through 16, 2016. Tutorials will take place on September 12 and 13.
The 56th CGISC meeting will be held concurrently on September 12 and 13. Meetings of the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee are free and open to the public.
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Forsyth Park, Savannah, GeorgiaThe IEEE/ION PLANS 2016: Position Location And Navigation Symposium will take place April 11-14 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah in Savannah, Georgia.
Early bird registration ends March 10, 2016.
This biennial technical conference and industry exhibition explores the field of navigation — from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results.
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Waikiki BeachUPDATED: March 21, 2017
The Institute of Navigation’s 2017 Pacific PNT Conference will take place May 1-4, 2017 at the Marriott Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Monterey Bay, California.The Institute of Navigation’s 2016 International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 25-28 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey in Monterey, California.
The abstract submission deadline has passed.
Discounted Registration and hotel reservations end January 3, 2016. PTTI registration includes access to the International Technical Meeting (ITM).
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Munich, GermanyThe Munich Satellite Navigation Summit and exhibition will take place at the Residenz Muenchen in Munich, Germany on March 1 – 3, 2016.
Register here.
The theme for this year’s summit is “GNSS: Creating a Global Village”.
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Michael Sanjume, deputy chief of the GPS Directorate User Equipment DivisionThe Air Force may dial back plans to accelerate its military receiver program, possibly reversing an earlier decision to combine development and production steps as a way to meet a congressional procurement deadline.
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With experience in satellite procurement, user equipment development and working with Congress, Col. Steven Whitney may be just the chief the GPS Directorate needs.
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Unicore UR380 GNSS Receiver with UB380Unicore released UB380 GPS/GLONASSS/BDS high precision board at ION GNSS+ 2015, held this week in Tampa, Florida.
UB380 is a 384-channel, multi-GNSS receiver that supports GPS, GLONASS, and the BeiDou Satellite System (BDS) based on Unicore’s multi-GNSS system on a chip. The receiver board can support GPS L1, L2, and L5; GLONASS L1, L2; and BDS B1, B2 and B3.
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UNAVCO has announced the selection of Septentrio to be the preferred vendor of next-generation GNSS reference stations for the Geodesy Advancing Geosciences and EarthScope (GAGE) Facility. The preferred vendor status is valid through the duration of the GAGE Facility Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).
With a successful September 10/11 launch under its belt, the Galileo program continues to move in the right direction, but proponents should be cautious about overstating the rate of progress, lest too-hopeful forecasts come back to bite them (again).
The September 11 European Space Agency (ESA) press release featured a headline proclaiming that 10 Galileo satellites are now in orbit, and while technically that may be true, it bears considering whether the 10 satellites in question are all they’re cracked up to be.
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Rockwell Collins DAGR. From Wikimedia CommonsThe GPS Directorate wants industry to more quickly develop innovative user equipment that integrates both the modernized GPS signals and signals from international constellations like Galileo.
“In the future,” said the organization’s new director, Col. Steve Whitney, “it’s going to be important that our industry partners and the Directorate investigate ways to pull in these new signals — and that includes some of the non-GPS signals — into our user equipment.”
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One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859
1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)
Nouméa ground station after the flood
A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat
Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV
Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)
“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder. 
Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram
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Falls Church, Virginia, c. 1861NavtechGPS Fall Mission Critical GNSS Training Seminars 2015 will take place at the Westin Tysons Corner Hotel in Falls Church, Viginia (Washington, D.C. area), November 2-6, 2015.
Special hotel rate if booked by October 12, 2015.
Course 556 starts on November 2, 2015. Courses 122 and 346 will start on November 3, 2015.
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