Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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EquationsWorking 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.
By Günter W. Hein
SBAS illustration with the GNSS satellites (upper left) and the communications satellite (upper right).With the Australian government’s announcement earlier this month that it would invest $12 million in a two-year program looking into the future of positioning technology in Australia, comes plans for testing of satellite based augmentation systems (SBAS) to be undertaken, and for future applications for all four major modes of transport in Australia, as well as for potential safety, productivity, efficiency and environmental benefits.
By Inside GNSS
This week’s Navitec Conference, entitled “Navigating the Future of Transportation,” delivered good news to an appreciative crowd at the European Space Agency’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA/ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
By Inside GNSS
With the Republican Party now entirely in charge of Washington’s prime policy real estate the neighborhood is going to change. The current residents are warily watching the newcomers take measurements for a major remodel of agencies, lobbying rules, national priorities, and international relationships, and everyone is assessing the implications of the new landscape.
By Dee Ann Divis
The European Commission (EC) has opened the third round of competition for €33 million (US$35.15 million) in Horizon 2020 (H2020) contracts for development of European GNSS (EGNSS) applications exploiting use of Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
By Inside GNSS
The Saladin Citadel of CairoThe 10th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT2017) will take place from May 6 – 8, 2017 at the Conrad Cairo Hotel, on the river Nile in Cairo, Egypt.
Online registration is available. Early bird rates end January 1, 2017.
By Inside GNSS
The 11th RIN Baška GNSS Conference will take place May 7 – 9, 2017, in Baška, Krk Island, Croatia, organized jointly by The Royal Institute of Navigation (London, UK), Faculty of Maritime Studies (University of Rijeka, Croatia), and the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (University of Zagreb, Croatia), with technical co-sponsorship from Beihang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beijing, China).
The abstract deadline is February 6, 2017. Please contact Renato Filjar.
By Inside GNSS
The Winspear Opera House and the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Downtown Dallas Arts DistrictAUVSI’s XPONENTIAL 2017, All Things Unmanned will take place at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. from May 8 – 11, 2017.
Online registration is open. Early bird registration ends November 30, 2016. Onsite registration will be available.
By Inside GNSS
EPFL Campus, Lausanne and Lake Geneva (photo A. Herzog)The 2017 European Navigation Conference (ENC 2017) will take place on the EPFL campus in the new Swiss Tech Convention Centre (STCC) on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland from May 9 – 12, 2017.
The call for papers is now open. The submission deadline is January 8, 2017. Registration and conference program will be available soon.
By Inside GNSS
Sydney, AustraliaThe 2016 IGNSS Conference will take place on December 6-8, 2016 at UNSW Australia’s Sydney campus in Sydney, Australia.
Registration is now open.
By Inside GNSS
European GNSS Agency illustrationThe European GNSS Agency (GSA) has released a report it says will help users and manufacturers to understand receiver technology and trends.
By Inside GNSS
The program to develop M-code capable receivers for military equipment is poised to enter a new phase this fall as the GPS Directorate seeks approval to start the engineering activities that will lead, ultimately, to full production.
By Dee Ann Divis
Because GPS and other GNSS are critical to the nation’s infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing an augmentation system and developing new requirements to protect it, a DHS official told the U.S. Department of Transportations’s Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting this week in Portland, Oregon.
