Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The European Commission and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) introduce the GENIUS project’s series of 3-day GNSS training programs for professionals. Five are scheduled in 2013 and five in 2014.
The first program is "Fundamentals of GNSS." It will take place at GSA headquarters in Prague on March 4,5 and 6, 2013.
Deira neighborhood in DubaiThe eighth meeting of the International Committee on GNSS will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 10 through November 14 2013.
The meeting’s co-director is Mr. Saleem H. Al Marri, director of the Space Program Department, EIAST, Dubai.
By Inside GNSS
UrsaNav, Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire the assets of Loran-C pioneer Megapulse, Inc., of Bedford, Massachusetts, with the transaction expected to close this quarter.
Megapulse’s general area of business is low-frequency (LF)
radionavigation, position-fIxing, orientation, and time transfer
systems, with primary product and service lines in Loran and enhanced
Loran (eLoran). Since the 1970s, all Loran transmitter systems installed
were of Megapulse design.
GNSS positioning, navigation and timing applications are vulnerable to malicious, accidental and space weather threats – but what can be done?
Rear Admiral Nick Lambert will keynote this one-day seminar on threat detection and mitigation techniques for civil use at the National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington on February 13.
By Inside GNSS
In 2013, the annual European Navigation Conference and industry exhibition will be organized by the Austrian Institute of Navigation (OVN) and will take place at the Austria Center Vienna from April 23 through April 25. The lectures and sessions will be held in English.
The theme is Navigation – Expanding Our Horizons
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Do we need performance specs for GNSS user equipment design? For a long time, the signal-in-space interface guidelines provided enough technical guidance. But times have changed.
Over the past two years, the effort by LightSquared to persuade the FCC to allow it to operate high-powered terrestrial transmitters in frequencies adjacent to GPS focused attention on potential vulnerabilities of GNSS user equipment.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s 2013 International Technical Meeting will take place January 28, 29 and 30 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego, California.
Stanford’s Sherman Lo will moderate the plenary session, "Exploring the Frontiers of Navigation: Unique and exciting new uses of navigation technologies."
The 120 technical session papers address:
By Inside GNSS
ION GNSS 2012Companies who exhibit at the Institute of Navigation GNSS conference next September will have longer exhibit hall hours to work the floor – but fewer days to do so – at the 2013 event in Nashville, Tennessee.
Based on feedback from exhibitors, ION will eliminate the Friday hours for the industry show and increase the Wednesday and Thursday hours next year.
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This is, as they say in Hollywood, a wrap.
The final issue of our seventh year heads off to the printer. And tomorrow I will point my car north and west, returning as generations of Americans have done over the centuries to the family farm, the “home place,” for Thanksgiving.
Because this is the season for gathering in and counting up. For gratitude at what we have received in the year past, and for those untoward things that we have avoided.
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The 2012 AGU fall meeting will take place from December 3 through December 7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Keynote speakers include Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s Science Friday program; Dr. Surbra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation; and Sir Robert Watson, whose career includes stints at JPL, NASA, the World Bank and now chief scientific advisor to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;
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The International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, will hold its 12th Air Navigation Conference (AN-Conf/12) at the ICAO headquarters assembly hall in the Quartier National of Montreal from November 19 through November 30, 2012. The conferences take place every 10 years.
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NAVCOM 2012 will take place at the Research and Training Unit for Navigational Electronics (NERTU) auditorium, of Osmania University, Hyderabad, India on December 20 and 21. The conference is part of NERTU’s Pearl Jubilee celebration.
Topics include
This free workshop on GNSS will take place at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 8, 9 and 10, 2012.
Registration is limited to the first 100 people. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is November 22.
This is the fourth Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS. It is organized by Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA), whose aim is to promote GNSS interoperability, development, use and applications in the region.
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