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Zeljko Popovic

Zeljko Popovic is a research engineer at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, investigating GPS positioning performance in obstructed environments for the needs of cooperative vehicle safety.

He has previously developed automotive control algorithms and software for Siemens VDO and Visteon.

Popovic earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering (mechatronics option) from the University of Waterloo and an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Mark Greaves

Mark Greaves is one of two geodetic analysts at Ordnance Survey.

He holds an M.Sc. in engineering surveying and geodesy and is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Greaves specializes in geodetic GNSS computations and analysis. He has worked at Ordnance Survey for almost 25 years during which time he has been responsible for several national GNSS network adjustments, including two internationally ratified realizations of the ETRS89 coordinate reference system in Great Britain.

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Paul Cruddace

Paul Cruddace is the geodesy and positioning manager at Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency.

He is responsible for the development and implementation of the overall strategy including the national GNSS infrastructure.

Cruddace is a chartered surveyor with a background in the use of precise GPS positioning to determine earthquake hazards.

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Willard Marquis

Willard Marquis is a senior staff systems engineer with the GPS IIR and GPS III Flight Operations Group, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.

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September 8, 2011

Looming Budget Hurricane Could Swamp the GPS Landscape

Budget storms have reappeared on the horizon and the fore¬cast for defense expenditures, including for the GPS program, is grim with a high probability of ugly.

By Dee Ann Divis

Codes: The PRN Family Grows Again

Working 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.

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A Comprehensive Reference for OPUS

CORS and OPUS for Engineers
Edited by Tomás Soler
PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

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Protecting the UK Infrastructure

FIGURE 1: Simplified probe architecture

GNSS vulnerability is rightly one of the most talked about topics of 2011.

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GPS III

FIGURE 1: GPS III On Orbit

In May 2008, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a new, third generation of GPS satellites. The GPS III space vehicle (SV) has been designed (Figure 1, see inset photo, above right) and is now being built to bring new future capabilities to both military and civil positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) users throughout the globe.

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September 4, 2011

Telematics@China Conference

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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August 31, 2011

FCC May Require Further Tests on LightSquared Interference to GPS (or Maybe Not)

[Updated September 2, 2011] Amid White House efforts to keep a lid on the process and congressional hearings on the subject, the controversy surrounding LightSquared’s interference to GPS could compel the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require another round of testing — this time of the wireless broadband company’s lower L-band frequencies.

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August 26, 2011

Trimble Launches New OEM GNSS Modules, Enclosure

Trimble BD920

Trimble has introduced two new GNSS OEM modules, the BD910 and BD920, featuring centimeter-level, real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning capabilities optimized for high-precision and control applications.

The BD910 and BD920 modules are designed to allow OEMs and system integrators to easily add centimeter-level positioning to specialized or custom hardware solutions.

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August 13, 2011

GPS OCX PDR Still Pending against Backdrop of Defense Cuts

Raytheon Corporation illustration

Members of the Advanced Control Segment (OCX) team led by Raytheon Corporation are working through a series of issues that has delayed approval of a recent preliminary design review (PDR) on the key GPS modernization program.

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Zeljko Popovic

Mark Greaves

Paul Cruddace

Willard Marquis

Looming Budget Hurricane Could Swamp the GPS Landscape

Codes: The PRN Family Grows Again

A Comprehensive Reference for OPUS

Protecting the UK Infrastructure

GPS III

Telematics@China Conference

FCC May Require Further Tests on LightSquared Interference to GPS (or Maybe Not)

Trimble Launches New OEM GNSS Modules, Enclosure

GPS OCX PDR Still Pending against Backdrop of Defense Cuts