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Help DARPA Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

Help DARPA Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

DARPA example of a robot working in a dangerous area

We certainly hope the competitors in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge hardwire Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics into their creations—the one that says don’t harm humans.

Because the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s new contest aims to develop technology that advances robotics to the next level. The level at which robots can do what we do, go where we can’t, and change shape as necessary.

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By Inside GNSS
GNSS Hotspots | March 2012
March 31, 2012

GNSS Hotspots | March 2012

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. DEAD IN THE WATER
San Francisco, California and Washington D.C., USA

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EU's Galileo and EGNOS Expect 2014-2020 Budget Boost of $9.1 billion

EU’s Galileo and EGNOS Expect 2014-2020 Budget Boost of $9.1 billion

Galileo IOT L-Band antenna at Redu Center in Belgium (ESA photo)

The European GNSS program expects to gain an additional €7 billion (US$9.1 billion) budget for 2014–2020 to support Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), a satellite-based augmentation system that currently provides differential corrections to GPS signals, according to Paul Flament, Galileo and EGNOS program manager for the European Commission. He spoke at the 2012 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit that ended on March 15.

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By Inside GNSS
UrsaNav Tests eLoran, LF Timing Potential
March 26, 2012

UrsaNav Tests eLoran, LF Timing Potential

UrsaNav LF transmitter site for timing synchronization trials

Virginia-based engineering firm UrsaNav Inc. has begun transmitting a variety of low frequency (LF) test signals, including enhanced Loran (eLORAN), as part of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG).

The test program include a comprehensive palette of signals that are being evaluated for their ability to provide a robust, wide-area, wireless precise timing alternative that can operate cooperatively with GNSS technology or autonomously during GNSS unavailability.

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By Inside GNSS
2012 European Satellite Navigation Competition Opens
March 23, 2012

2012 European Satellite Navigation Competition Opens

The 2012 European Satellite Navigation Competition will accept your idea, innovative service or business plan for GNSS applications beginning April 1.  Submit your idea online at www.galileo-masters.eu through June 30.

This year, the competition is working with 20 partner regions in Europe, Brazil, the Middle East and North Africa.  You do not have to be a resident of the partner regions in order to enter, however you must anticipate basing your business in one of them.

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By Inside GNSS
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NAV12 and the Royal Institute of Navigation Request Your Papers, Please
March 20, 2012

NAV12 and the Royal Institute of Navigation Request Your Papers, Please

The University Park Hotel under construction next to the East Midlands Conference Centre

The British Royal Institute of Navigation has given prospective authors a May 4 deadline for abstracts for its annual conference, NAV12. The theme this year is "GNSS and Beyond."

Authors have a broad choice of navigation and technology topics from GNSS, eLoran and integrated systems technology to satellite navigation vulnerabilities to jamming and space weather to low-cost consumer apps design.

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By Inside GNSS
Going to Nashville in September? Submit your ION GNSS 2012 Abstracts by March 9
March 7, 2012

Going to Nashville in September? Submit your ION GNSS 2012 Abstracts by March 9

Aerial view of downtown Nashville, Tennessee USA

Join the 250 other technical presenters at this year’s Institute of Navigation GNSS conference and submit your abstract by Friday, March 9.

The U.S. Institute of Navigation sponsors the world’s oldest and largest conference on global navigation satellite systems. ION GNSS 2012 will take place next September 17 through 21 at the Nashville Convention Center in Tennessee. Tutorials and the CGSIC meeting will take place on September 17 and 18.

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By Inside GNSS
Oceanology International 2012 Navigation and Positioning Conference

Oceanology International 2012 Navigation and Positioning Conference

"Putting technology to work" is the theme of the Navigation and Positioning one-day conference covering all aspects of precise navigation, surface and sub-surface positioning at Oceanology International 2012 (Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 March 2012, London ExCeL, UK). The day-long conference, on the opening day of the show, features a keynote address by Nick Ward, Research Director of the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland, with responsibility for strategy and planning of research & development.

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By Inside GNSS
Web Seminar on Challenges of GNSS/Inertial Integration Gets Thumbs Up
February 29, 2012

Web Seminar on Challenges of GNSS/Inertial Integration Gets Thumbs Up

Nearly 400 system integrators, equipment manufacturers, product/application designers, and other professionals from around the world tuned into a live broadcast web seminar presented by Inside GNSS on February 28 with the subject, “Challenges of GNSS/Inertial Integration.”

A link to the recorded version is available here. If you already registered and would like to review the webinar, just sign in. If you have not yet registered, you may do so now. Registration is free.

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By Inside GNSS
IFEN and WORK Microwave Introduce Enhanced NavX-NCS GNSS Simulator
February 23, 2012

IFEN and WORK Microwave Introduce Enhanced NavX-NCS GNSS Simulator

IFEN, the Poing, Germany–based manufacturer of GNSS navigation products and services, working in partnership with WORK Microwave, have announced an enhanced version of IFEN’s NavX-NCS Professional, a multi-frequency GNSS simulator.

Optimized for research and development of GNSS safety and professional applications, the enhanced version of the NavX-NCS Professional incorporate the following key features:

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By Inside GNSS
GNSS Vulnerability: Present Dangers and Future Threats
February 10, 2012

GNSS Vulnerability: Present Dangers and Future Threats

National Physical Laboratory entrance

This free one-day event at the British National Physical Laboratory in Teddington (London) on Wednesday, February 22 will present results of current jamming detection, and consider emerging threats such as meaconing and spoofing.The seminar runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Interested participants must pre-register online.

Todd Humphreys, director of the Radionavigation Laboratory at the University of Texas-Austin will deliver the keynote, "PVT security: privacy and trustworthiness."

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