Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Spider v7.0 now supports all known GNSS. Photo courtesy of Leica Geosystems.Leica Geosystems has released Leica Spider v7.0 software suite, which supports Galileo and QZSS constellations as well as the GPS-L5 signal for improved network RTK correction services.
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The KU Leuven Ecochallenge team. Photo source: Septentrio. Septentrio recently awarded the KU Leuven Ecochallenge team – the winners of the Galileo Masters (Flanders Challenge) of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) – a special prize of an AsteRx-m UAS receiver for their proposal to use high-precision, high-reliability Galileo receivers to modernize inland waterway transport by introducing autonomous technology for the vessels.
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Basic GIS Coordinates, Third Edition by Jan Van Sickle. Photo source: CRC PressCRC Press has released a new book Basic GIS Coordinates, Third Edition by Jan Van Sickle.
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The event’s venue is Hotel The Ashok, Nitti Marg, New Delhi (http://www.theashok.com).The 38th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS-2017) will take place in October at New Delhi, India. The main theme of the conference is Space Applications: Touching Human Lives. The venue is Hotel The Ashok, Nitti Marg, New Delhi. Delhi is connected to all major cities, and the venue place is at the heart of the Delhi City.
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The invisible signals that Europe’s Galileo satellites are beaming down to the world are officially award-winning, now that the team behind their design has won the European Inventor Award, run by the European Patent Office. The 12th European Inventor Award (Research) was given at a ceremony on June 15 at the Arsenale di Venezia in Venice, Italy.
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SP90m Multi-frequency, Multi-Application GNSS Receiver. Photo source: Spectra Precision Spectra Precision has introduced its new SP90m multi-frequency and multi-application GNSS receiver. The Spectra Precision SP90m is described as a powerful, versatile, ultra-rugged and reliable GNSS positioning solution for a wide variety of real-time and post-processing applications.
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Organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), Technical University of Valencia (UPV) and Val Space Consortium (VSC) the 6th International Colloquium Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Program will take place at the Technical University of Valencia, in the Politechnic City of Innovation building, inside the main campus of the university (Campus de Vera). This venue is located in the north of Valencia, very near the seashore. The event takes place just a short ride from the historic center of the city, the museums and other places of interest.
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Galileo support has been added to the VRS Now Correction Service. Photo courtesy of Trimble. Trimble announced that its Trimble VRS Now networks — powered by Trimble Pivot Platform software — can now process Galileo observation data in its network-modeled Virtual Reference Station (VRS) solution. As a true five-constellation technology using GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, QZSS and now Galileo observations, Trimble VRS Now delivers even better real-time positioning performance for customers using Trimble networks throughout much of Europe, the company stated.
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Maj. Gen. Roger Teague, the director of space programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition. Photo courtesy of Air Force.The White House is asking Congress to boost overall funding for the GPS program back over $1 billion, with the largest infusion of new money earmarked to cover the cost growth of the Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX).
If approved, overall spending on the GPS program would reach $1.09 billion in fiscal year 2018 (FY18) with funding for OCX surging to $510.94 million from the $393.27 million allocated by Congress for FY17.
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The White House has thrown its support behind a proposal to privatize the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) system as part of its plan to improve the country’s infrastructure.
The administration is seeking to create a nonprofit organization empowered to take over the ATC system from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and finance its operations by charging fees to flyers. The new group would also be expected to reach out to the financial markets and borrow against that income stream to support, and hopefully accelerate, ATC modernization.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space for an upgrade of EGNOS, Europe’s satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS).
Designed by ESA and being exploited by Europe’s GNSS Agency (GSA) the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) improves the precision of U.S. GPS signals over most of the European territory, while also providing continuous and reliable updates on the “integrity” of these GPS signals.
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Inside the ESA pavilion – Access to space. ESA photo.The European Space Agency (ESA) is seeking ideas for innovative future navigation concepts and products from European industry and academia, and these ideas can come together at the ESA pavilion at the Paris Air & Space Show. There attendees can talk with the team overseeing the new program seeking to drive Europe’s state-of-the-art in finding one’s way.
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Sferic Maps empowers emergency management and business continuity professionals with real-time collaboration capabilities to make intelligent weather-related decisions. Photo source: Earth Networks.Advanced weather data is crucial to safeguarding business assets from severe weather. For example, energy companies build outage models utilizing their real-time hourly forecasting for every point in the country. These companies can then plan field teams accordingly, and plan drone operations to be conducted after the weather event to assess infrastructure damage that may have occurred.
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