Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The IGNSS 2015 symposium on GPS/GNSS and industry exhibition will take place at the Outrigger Hotel in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from July 16 to 18, 2015. The conference venue is one block from the famous Surfer’s Paradise Beach.
The deadline for abstracts is February 9, 2015.
Registration will be open at the end of March, 2015. Early bird registration ends May 18, 2015.
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This three-day NavtechGPS Winter GNSS Training course will take place at ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, November 17-19, 2014.
Registration is open.
Course 336: GPS Fundamentals, Enhancements & Introduction to Differential GPS will be taught by Dr. Chris Hegarty. The course is open to citizens of NATO countries.
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Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, logistics and technologyPushed by Congress to upgrade to M-code, the U.S. Army is earmarking money for the new capability even as sequestration is forcing programs cuts, according to the service’s top acquisition official.
“We are heading towards the M-code capability,” said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology. The Army has worked “our S&T (science and technology) pieces,” she said, noting that the Air Force was developing the necessary circuit cards through is Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) program.
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A confluence of technology, policy, and applications is turning indoor venues into the next big frontier for positioning and navigation.
Recent market studies have heralded the prospects for positioning, navigation, and tracking inside buildings where GNSS signals are often attenuated or blocked entirely. Many products and conceptual designs combine the indoor technologies with GNSS to provide “ubiquitous” positioning.
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GPS pseudolite used in experiment at University of New South Wales Satellite Navigation and Positioning LabInternational aviation officials have asked U.S. experts to consider updating standards for GNSS aviation receivers to improve their ability to withstand interference from repeaters, pseudolites, and jammers.
Repeaters — generally used to extend navigation signals inside buildings where they would otherwise be blocked — rebroadcast GNSS satellite signals and therefore operate in the same frequency band. Although useful within a building, care must be taken to confined the repeater’s signal lest it confuse other receivers operating nearby.
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Well, the good news is that the European GNSS program has recovered and stabilized the condition of its first two two full operational capability (FOC) satellites, which had been delivered into incorrect orbits following their August 22 launch.
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Raytheon UK launched a new enhanced version of its battlefield GPS L1/L2 anti-jam (GPS-AJ) capability, Landshield, this week (October 13–15) at the annual conference of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA 2014) in Washington, D.C.
A multi-element antenna with the anti-jam processing in a single small “one-box” form factor that interfaces at the RF level, Landshield is designed to enable GPS equipment to function unimpaired against a full range of hostile jammer types including narrow band, broadband, continuous wave, pulse, swept, and spectrally matched.
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GSA Executive Director Carlo des DoridesThe European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Commission (EC) have concluded an agreement that delegates a range of exploitation tasks for Galileo to the GSA, providing a framework and budget for the development of services and operations through 2021.
The signing of the Galileo Exploitation Delegation Agreement serves as an initial step towards the full Galileo Exploitation Phase.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are getting a lot of attention this week at the INTERGEO conference and exhibition in Berlin, Germany, where a special session on Tuesday (October 7, 2014), “UAVs in Practice,” focused on their use in airborne surveying and mapping, environmental monitoring, and other commercial or civil applications.
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In a report issued Tuesday (October 7, 2014), an Independent Inquiry Board formed to analyze the cause of the August 22 launch anomaly that placed two Galileo into the wrong orbits has concluded that frozen fuel lines caused a misfiring of attitude control thrusters on the launcher’s Fregat module.
According to the report, the problem can be remedied on the rockets in time for another launch in December, much sooner than some observers had speculated.
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xOEM500Oxford Technical Solutions Ltd. (OxTS) has announced its first inertial navigation OEM board set with integrated GNSS — the xOEM500, which the company is promoting at this week’s (October 7–9, 2014) Intergeo trade show in Berlin, Germany.
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The Terracotta Army inside the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’anThe 2015 China Satellite Navigation Conference and technology and applications exhibition will be held at the Xi’an Qujiang International Conference Center on May 13, 14, and 15, 2015 in Xi’an, China.
Registration information can be found on the conference website. The deadline for abstracts has passed.
This year, conference topics include:
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Denver Millennium Bridge at the end of the 16th Street Mall.The biennial Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) and European Frequency Time Forum (EFTF) will be held at The Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado, USA on April 12 -16, 2015.
The deadline for abstracts is January 9, 2015. Online submission is open.
Among the sessions for the IFCS/EFTF working group, Group 5 is of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS. It covers:
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