Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Yuletide cheer laces the Scottish atmosphere as we examine what’s been accomplished and what’s yet to be done. This year’s International Navigation Conference in Edinburgh provides a focal point.
By Peter Gutierrez
To gauge the present state of mind of the GNSS and PNT community, the state of play in application development, and the state of the art in positioning, navigation and timing technology, we asked four international experts for their perspectives. Here are the questions posed to them.
By Inside GNSS
Abstracts are now being accepted for the IEEE/ION Positioning, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2020. The conference will take place April 20-23, 2020 at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 30, 2019.
By Inside GNSS
NavtechGPS, a technology-driven small business with more than 30 years of experience in GPS/GNSS and precise positioning technology, will conduct training courses at InterContinental New Orleans in December.
By Inside GNSS
Auto makers, ride-service providers and system integrators all anticipate the day—perhaps sooner than some think—when fully autonomous vehicles take the road. Many rigorous technical navigation challenges must be surmounted to reach that day: safety and reliability come first, before convenience and cost-savings can be realized. Innovative engineers who have solved these challenges share their lessons learned in a free webinar, Wednesday, October 2: “Inertial + SLAM: Creating the Roadmap for Autonomous Vehicles.”
By Inside GNSS
Satellite Innovation 2019, which presents real time market data and technical knowledge from the world’s preeminent experts, is scheduled for Oct. 8-10, 2019 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
By Inside GNSS
The 25th year of the INTERGEO conference will take place Sept. 17-19 at Messe Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany. The event is organized by DVW – German Society for Geodosy, Geoinformation and Land Management e.V., and sponsored by Hexagon, Trimble and Autodesk.
By Inside GNSS
Spirent Communications plc, a leader in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) test solutions, will unveil its enhanced GSS9000 Series GNSS Constellation Simulator at ION GNSS+ 2019 in Miami next week (September 16-20). It joins Spirent’s already impressive range of test solutions on display at the world’s largest showcase of GNSS technology, products and services.
By Inside GNSS
When the very first visitors to INTERGEO passed through the turnstiles in Dortmund’s Westfalenhallen exhibition centre on the dot of 9 a.m. on August 23, 1995, even the most wildly optimistic observers could hardly have imagined the trajectory this fledgling event was embarking upon. Although the geodesists conference was a firm fixture in this specialist field, the trade fair—until then billed as the “accompanying exhibition”—with its 185 exhibitors was really quite modest, despite having grown considerably, compared to the event held in Mainz in 1994.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s Cognizant Autonomous Systems for Safety Critical Applications (CASSCA) Conference will feature well-recognized experts and leaders from government, industry and academia. Originally scheduled as part of ION’s International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Systems and Applications in late January, CASSCA was postponed at that time due to an extended impasse between U.S. Congressional leaders and the White House that had created a partial U.S. government shutdown.
By Inside GNSS
The future of the commercial drone industry begins at InterDrone, September 3-6, 2019 at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over the course of 4 days, attendees receive comprehensive drone training from the industry’s top speakers from world-class companies and entities such as DJI, the FAA and more.
By Inside GNSS
ION GNSS+, the world’s largest technical meeting and showcase of GNSS technology, products and services, will take place Sept. 16-20, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.
By Inside GNSS
Commercial UAV Expo Americas, October 28-30 in Las Vegas, is North America’s leading trade show and conference focusing on the integration and operation of commercial UAS with more exhibitors than any other commercial drone event.
By Inside GNSS