Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), is seeking public comments on the current and future user needs for the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System (NDGPS).
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Florence 1493 stampThis joint conference held with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) will be held at the Hilton Florence Metropole Hotel in Florence, Italy from October 14 through October 17, 2013.
It combines the 19th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference and the 31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC). The 11st BroadSky Workshop organized by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan will be held at the same time.
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This seminar for European doctoral students working in GNSS will take place at Allborg University on May 15, 16 and 17, 2013. Tuition is free, accepted students must pay for their own travel and lodging.
Lecture topics and presenters:
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This one-day event sponsored by the UK Knowledge Transfer Network Information and Communications Technologies group (KTN ICT) and Cambridge Wireless will cover technologies for radio coexistence as spectrum reallocation occurs.
It will take place on May 16 from noon to 4:40 p.m. at Eversheds LLP, 1 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS.
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The International GNSS Service (IGS), a worldwide federation of agencies involved in high-precision GNSS) applications, has announced the launch of its Real-Time Service (RTS).
The RTS is a global scale GNSS orbit and clock correction service that enables real-time precise point positioning (PPP) and related applications requiring access to IGS low latency products. The RTS is offered in beta as a GPS-only service for the development and testing of applications.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and NEC Corporation have received contracts to build the spacecraft and ground control system, respectively, for Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
The Japanese Cabinet Office announced the contract awards last Friday (March 29, 2013).
Mitsubishi will receive ¥50 billion (US$540 million) for building one geostationary satellite and two additional quasi-zenith satellites (QZSs) to join “Michibiki,” the first QZS launched on September 11, 2010.
This new international conference on GNSS technologies and applications for the development of sub-Saharan African countries will take place May 30 and 31 at the new bayside Terrou-Bi hotel and conference center in Dakar, Senegal.
The event targets entrepreneurs and companies from the EU and Africa that use GNSS technologies. The event is designed to showcase and promote African technical competencies with solid potential for success using EGNOS and Galileo services and the space sector in general.
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The 2013 Unmanned Systems North America industry exhibition and symposium sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 12 -15 at Walter E. Washington convention Center in Washington D.C. The Renaissance Washington is the conference headquarters hotel.
It features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems and robotics markets. The event covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.
Registration is open for the IGNSS 2013 symposium and industry exhibition. It will take place at the Outrigger Hotel in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from July 16 to 18 during the sunny area’s cool and dry season.
The conference venue is one block from the famous Surfer’s Paradise Beach.
Program topics include GNSS system issues, receivers and signals, policy issues, applications and non-satellite positioning methods.(The deadline for abstract submission has passed)
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Furuno Electric Company has announced that new multi-GNSS receiver chips eRideOPUS 6 and eRideOPUS 7 — with active anti-jamming, multipath mitigation, and dead reckoning interfaces — will be available to the market beginning August 2013.
The eRideOPUS 7 receiver chip can process GPS and GLONASS signals (with a combined antenna), satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) transmissions, Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), and — with a software update —Galileo signals. The eRideOPUS 6 is not GLONASS-capable.
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NH Santo Stefano HotelThe 2013 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 at the NH Santo Stefano hotel in downtown Torino, Italy.
ICL-GNSS 2013 will address the latest research on satellite-based and complementary positioning techniques for use outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.
The emphasis is on GNSS receiver design, related signal processing methods and leading-edge technologies.
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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
Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST
1. LATE LAUNCHES
Cape Canaveral and Plesetsk
√ [updated April 1] After three delays, a single GLONASS-M satellite will go up from Plesetsk space center on April 26. The United States will send up SVN66, the fourth GPSIIF satellite— on an Atlas V launcher for the first time—during the early evening of May 15. It had been delayed from March.
This practical workshop targets professionals in the aviation sector and others interested in GNSS. It will take place on May 6 and 7 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
It is sponsored by the Central America Organization for Aerial
Navigation Services and the Galileo Information Center for Latin
America.
The topics are:
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