SBAS and RNSS

2010 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (PIN)
March 30, 2010

2010 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (PIN)

“Science City” campus of ETH, Zurich

The International 2010 PIN Conference and industry exhibition will take place at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Zurich, Switzerland from September 15 to 17 2010.

Organizers call it the largest meeting dedicated entirely to indoor positioning, with 196 announced abstracts from 36 countries.

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NAVSUP 2010: Polish Navigation Forum
March 29, 2010

NAVSUP 2010: Polish Navigation Forum

The 17th conference on "The Role of Navigation in Support of Human Activity" will be held in Gdynia, Poland from September 23 to 25 2010. An industry exhibition is part of the event.

The conference will cover the latest developments in navigation and positioning on the water, on land and in the air.

The event targets scientists, engineers from Poland and Europe.

May 15 2010 is the deadline for applications and submission of abstracts.

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European GNSS Supervisory Authority Launches EGNOS Portal

European GNSS Supervisory Authority Launches EGNOS Portal

A DGAC ATR42 test aircraft lands at Limoges airport during EGNOS trials. (ESA photo)

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), on behalf of the European Commission, has launched an Internet portal for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) designed to help developers and entrepreneurs vying for a slice of the emerging satellite navigation market.

The European counterpart to the U.S. GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), EGNOS is a satellite-based augmentation system that provides real-time differential corrections and integrity information about GPS operations.

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5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies (NAVITEC)

5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies (NAVITEC)

"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: The Beginning of a New Age" is the theme of the 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.

In addition to multi-GNSS issues, the event will focus on signal design, signal processing, GNSS payload technology effects and integration of navigation technologies with communication services.

The European Space Agency event will be held from December 8 to 10, 2010 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.

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Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies
March 18, 2010

Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies

Prof. Grigoriy Stupak. JPL/IGS photo

[Corrected March 20] Russia is “close to completion” of a coordination plan for the “whole set of GLONASS signals” that will include eight different CDMA signals on four frequencies, according to Prof. Grigoriy Stupak, deputy director general of the Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering (RISDE) and the general designer for the GLONASS system.

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Sampler Plate from Munich Summit
March 9, 2010

Sampler Plate from Munich Summit

Tony Russo, U.S. National Office for Space-Based PNT

Ah, another Munich Summit plenary session filled with many already-knowns and former unknowns, the latter mostly conveyed in nuances and bon mots.

More about that in news reportage to come.

But in the event’s venue, a recently restored All-Saints Church under der Residenz, the speakers may have felt a little lingering moral pressure to tell the truth. So, a sampler plate of comments may be in order.

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By Inside GNSS
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2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS
February 24, 2010

2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

The theme of the 2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS is "At a Turning Point." It will take place at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan on October 26-28.

National Cheng Kung University is organizing and hosting the event. The symposium will be held in English.

The annual forum is open to innovative ideas on GNSS systems, techniques, applications and opportunities by researchers and engineers from academia and industry.

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JAXA Gives QZSS Satellite a Nickname - “Michibiki"
February 3, 2010

JAXA Gives QZSS Satellite a Nickname – “Michibiki”

Quasi-Zenith satellite orbit

The Japanese Space Agency has selected a nickname for its first GNSS satellite: “Michibiki.”  JAXA received more than 11,000 entries in its recent contest to raise national awareness of the GPS augmentation program.

The first of three Quasi-Zenith satellites will launch during the Japanese 2010 fiscal year, sometime before March 31, 2011. 

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APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting
January 14, 2010

APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting

The 14th Meeting of the APEC Global Navigation Satellite System Implementation Team will be held at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, Washington USA from June 21-24, 2010.

Registration is open online at the web address below.

The last meeting held in Singapore tabled a draft strategy for 2010-15 that emphasized intermodal GNSS transportation applications. It will also serve as the focus of the Seattle meeting.

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By Inside GNSS
USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup
January 12, 2010

USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup

Loran on ice

(UPDATED January 7, January 12) The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) posted a notice in the Federal Register on January 7 certifying that termination of the Loran-C signal will not adversely affect the safety of maritime navigation and that decommission will begin on February 8 with all Loran stations expected to cease transmitting the Loran-C signal by October 1, 2010.

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has certified that the Loran-C system infrastructure is not needed as a backup to the GPS system or to meet any other federal navigation requirement.

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