Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Near Hotel Oranje (hotel photo)Spirent engineers will lead a two day training conference on the company’s simulation equipment at Hotel Oranje in Noordwijk, Netherlands on June 21 and 22 2011.
The conference will consist of 11 training sessions followed by 4 hands-on workshops.
Topics include:
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The GAGAN payload on GSAT-8 communications satellite takes off via an Airane-5 launcher on May 21 (Arianespace photo)India’s first GAGAN navigation payload on the GSAT-8 communications satellite was launched successfuly at 02:08 hrs IST on Saturday, May 21 2011, according to the Indian Satellite Research Organization (ISRO)
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Uninterrupted continuous positioning technology is no longer a "nice to have" option but, for many applications, a "must have" requirement. Mobile devices increasingly rely on position/location functionality, and users have little tolerance for gaps in service.
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[UPDATED MAY 16] India’s GPS-Aided and GEO-Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) spacecraft will be carried into orbit on an Ariane-5 launcher from the European Space Agency (ESA) spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on May 21, 2011, according to an announcement from ISRO, the Indian space agency.
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Air vehicle, MQ-1B Predator system, Iraq 2008 (Military photo)Online registration is open for the 2011 Joint Navigation Conference, scheduled for June 28-20 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The FOUO event is the largest endorsed U.S. military navigation conference of the year, with joint service and government participation.
The annual JNC focuses on technical advances in guidance, navigation and control; especially on joint development, testing and support of affordable systems, logistics and integration.
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Brisbane City Botanic Gardens facing Alice Street(See Glen Gibbons’ report from APEC/GIT-14 in Seattle, June 2010)
The fifteenth meeting of APEC’s GNSS Implementation Team will be held June 13-16 at Sofitel Brisbane Central, All Saints Convention Center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Online pre-registration is required and is limited to 50 delegates. Please contact either of the co-chairs if your password is not accepted on the GIT webpage registration screen.
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The recent release of the 2010 Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP) marks the passage of a recurring milestone for the U.S. positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) community.
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A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s first international conference this summer.
It will take place at Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Florida from June 6 through June 9, 2011.
The theme is "Building a Smarter World," and will include 200 technical and training sessions and an industry exhibition.
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Omnistar DGPS world mapTrimble announced on March 16 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets related to the OmniSTAR GNSS signal corrections business from Fugro N.V.
The acquisition is expected to significantly expand Trimble’s worldwide ability to provide correction services for a broad range of land-based applications in addition to OmniSTAR’s current focus in agriculture. Fugro’s offshore marine business is unaffected.
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EGNOS-equipped cockpitOn March 2, ESSP (the European Satellite Services Provider) declared the safety-of-life (SoL) signal from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) officially available for use by aviation, following European Commission (EC) authorization to provide the service.
Similar to the U.S. Federal Aviation (FAA) Administration’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), EGNOS transmits real-time corrections to GPS signals over a large expanse of Europe and north Africa.
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The International Committee on GNSS (ICG), is a voluntary United Nations–backed association that brings together GNSS and augmentation providers — including the United States, Russia, European Union, China, India, and Japan — and associate members representing key user communities.
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Fira de Barcelona, Monjuic venueThe GlobalGEO Fair will take place in the Monjuic Venue, Hall 6 at Fira de Barcelona exhibition center in Barcelona, Spain from March 15 to March 17.
The fair features the latest products for GPS navigation, 3D mapping, geographic information systems, photogrammetry, teledetection, geodesics, topography, satellite navigation, intelligent transport systems and communications.
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Martyn Thomas, RAE GNSS Study Group ChairmanRelease of a British Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) report today (March 8, 2011) adds another chapter to the growing chronicle of GNSS vulnerability — concluding that the integrity of GNSS is insufficient for safety-of-life applications.
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