Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.
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AUVSI 2011 exhibit floor (photo by Roger L. Wollenberg)The 2012 Unmanned Systems North America exhibition and conference sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 6 -9 at Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas.
It features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems market. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.
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UNSW, the conference venue, is 4.3 miles (7 km) from Sydney city center.The 2012 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) will take place at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia From November 13 to 15.
The keynote, by Google’s Waleed Kadous, is "The Indoor Tipping Point: Lessons from Indoor at Scale."
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The Hilton Helsinki Strand at nightUPINLBS 2012 will take place on the Gulf of Finland waterfront at the Hilton Strand in Helsinki, Finland on October 3 and 4. The conference venue is 1/2 mile (0.8 km ) from the center of the city.
John Raquet, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology ; Mark Petovello, University of Calgary and Rafael Lucas, GNSS Evolution and Strategy Division, European Space Agency will deliver the keynotes.
The topics are:
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Lake StarnbergThe 2012 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 in Starnberg, near Munich, Germany.
ICL-GNSS 2012 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.
Abstracts may be submitted online beginning in February. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 2, 2012.
Topic areas include:
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The European Commission has introduced free, downloadable and ready-to-use software tools to help anyone develop enhanced location and timing applications that harness the power of Europe’s European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
EGNOS, which began operations earlier this year, provides real-time satellite-based corrections and integrity monitoring for GPS satellite signals.
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Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Hein, head of Europe’s Galileo Operations and Evolution.
A Residenz courtyard, MunichThe 2012 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit will take place at the Residenz Munchen in Germany from March 13 to 15. This year’s opening plenary theme is "GNSS and Security."
This year marks the 10th anniversary of this key European and international event on the policies and direction of the global navigation satellite systems.
The program has been posted online.
Planned 2012 discussions include:
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A debate on global navigation satellite systems and their vulnerability to space weather effects will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 29 at the Palais des Congres in Namur, Belgium. It is free and open to the scientific community and the public.
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The Wedge, a surfer’s dream at Newport Beach/Corona Del Mar. The annual Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting will take place January 30 through February 1 2012 in Newport Beach, California at the Marriott Hotel and Spa.
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This annual conference on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the global navigation satellite systems and efforts to improve accuracy and reliability.
It will take place at Baska on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from May 21 to May 24, 2012.
FIGURE 1: Current availability in the Arctic with VAL=35 m and HAL=40m.The Arctic houses an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids according to the U.S. Geological Survey. These potential energy reserves represent 13 percent of the untapped oil in the world.
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FIGURE 1: Simplified probe architectureGNSS vulnerability is rightly one of the most talked about topics of 2011.
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