Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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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Scenic Jeju IslandThe third Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS will take place on Jeju Island, Korea on November 1 and 2, 2011.
Japan’s first Quasi-Zenith satellite "Michibiki" is now transmitting positioning signals and its technical and application verificationr results will be a major topic at this year’s event.
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IET headquarters, Savoy PlaceThe head of the Galileo program division of the UK’s space agency, the PRS expert at the European GNSS agency and the director of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute are just a few of the speakers at a one-day seminar in central London on October 5 called "Modernized Satellite Navigation: The Implementation of GNSS Programmes and Future Challenges."
The Wednesday event will take place at the IET Savoy Place conference center from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m
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The 43rd PTTI meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California on November 14-17, 2011.
Each year, experts meet to exchange precise time and time interval information at the user level, inform government and industry of the technology and its challenges, discuss new technology and review present and future PTTI requirements.
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The 2011 Telematics@China conference and exhibition will be held at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel City Centre in Shanghai, China from Wednesday through Friday, December 7-9.
The annual event, which began in 2008, is sponsored by the Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China) and supported by a number of government departments. The conference will feature 90 speakers from all sectors of the telematics industry. Organizers expect 1,000 attendees from China and the rest of the world.
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eVotz plans to make the voting booth passé.The 2011 USA Challenge will give ION GNSS participants a chance to pick their favorite satellite navigation application from this year’s contest using eVotz, a mobile voting platform that won the competition last year.
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Six judges — satellite navigation engineering experts from Stanford University, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Overlook Systems, NovAtel, KLA Global, the Institute of Navigation, and Inside GNSS — will select the finalists in the 2011 USA Challenge, one of 23 regional contests in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).
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European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). ESA illustrationCiting European Space Agency (ESA) studies that showed “harmful interference” to Galileo receivers operating up to 1,000 kilometers from LightSquared base stations, a European Commission (EC) official has told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about his “deep concerns” about the wireless broadband company’s terrestrial transmissions in the 1525–1559 MHz band next to L1 GNSS frequencies.
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Hotel Nikko New Century in Haidian, BeijingThis officially sanctioned conference and equipment exhibtion addresses applications, technologies and trends for China’s satellite communications, broadcasting, remote sensing, navigation and positioning.It will be held at Hotel Nikko New Century in Beijing on October 26.28, 2011.
Subjects of most interest to Inside GNSS readers include:
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Rathaus WilmersdorfThe International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-based and Ground-based Augmentation Systems and Aplications will take place at the Wilmersdorf in Berlin on October 10 and 11. The event will be held in English.
This year, the focus is on EUPOS, a ground-based European GNSS augmentation system, and on the regional geodetic reference frames and systems, ground-based GNSS infrastructures and technical developments in the field of DGNSS.
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El Fortin monument in Heredia, Costa RicaSIRGAS 2011, the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system for the Americas, will be held in Heredia, Costa Rica from August 8 to 10.
It will take place in Clodomiro Picado Twight auditorium at the Omar Dengo campus of the National University of Costa Rica.
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Mita Kaigisho, site of the ICG-6 meetingICG-6, the sixth meeting of the UN’s Sixth Meeting of the International Committee on GNSS, will take place in Tokyo from September 5-9.
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