Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Table 1, Figures 2 & 3Smartphone apps represent the most prominent market for GNSS. No other device or community of users has achieved a larger growth and market penetration in the period 2008–2013.
Apple introduced the first GPS capability on a smartphone in June 2008 with the iPhone3, and one year later Samsung introduced its Samsung Galaxy, incorporating the first GPS receiver for this brand.
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Big Sur coastline looking north to Bixby Canyon BridgeEarly bird registration ends Friday, April 11, 2014.
The IEEE/ ION PLANS 2014: Position Location And Navigation System Conference will take place May 5-8 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort and Spa in Monterey, California.
This biennial conference and industry exhibition explores the field of navigation — from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results.
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The third IEEE international conference on "Ubiquitous Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Service" (UPINLBS 2014) will be held on 20-21 Nov. 2014 at the Omni Hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
Keynote speakers will include:
UPINLBS 2014 will feature technical papers and presentations on a variety of topics such as:
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Spirent GSS9000Spirent has launched a new generation of multi-frequency, multi-GNSS RF constellation simulator — the Spirent GSS9000.
The GSS9000 supports an extensive range of constellation configurations, from GPS L1 through to multi-GNSS, multi-frequency systems, including classified/restricted signals. Configurations are available that support multi-antennas and multi-vehicles, for example differential GNSS, attitude determination, interference/jamming and spoofing, and controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) testing.
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Don’t be misled by the title. This is not another round of speculation about who should be proclaimed the rightful “Father of GPS.”
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A. J. Van DierendonckThe world’s GNSS systems are entering a phase of transformation — modernization of existing systems (the U.S. Global Positioning System and Russia’s GLONASS) and development of new systems (China’s BeiDou and Europe’s Galileo) that benefit from the lessons learned from the original GNSSs.
Notable among the modernization initiatives is an interest in implementing new satellite signal designs. These include the GPS L5, L2C, and L1C signals as well as those signals designed for Galileo and BeiDou. GLONASS designers are also working on modernized signals.
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Article 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.
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In this article, we will take a look at the various GNSS signals from the perspective of their cost-benefit tradeoffs. First, we’ll look at the evolution of consumer GPS architecture to date — where acquisition speed and sensitivity have been the main drivers of receiver architecture. That architecture has evolved rapidly to take full advantage of the characteristics of the GPS C/A code.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs comprise a category of aircraft that fly without a human operator onboard. They are more popularly referred to by the misleading moniker “drones,” which masks the wide variety in their design and capability.
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A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s fourth international conference this summer.
It will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 2 through June 5, 2014.
Registration is now open. Early bird rates end April 25, 2014.
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Satellite image of Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. The tenth annual GEOINT Symposium and exhibition will take place on April 14-17 2014 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.
Registration is now open.
The symposium’s theme is “Operationalizing Intelligence for Global Missions.”
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The ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile) course "GNSS: Principles, Augmentations and Evolutions of EGNOS" will be held at the ENAC Administrative Head Office in Toulouse, France on May 12 – 23, 2014.
Registration is now open.
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Vienna, AustriaThe Symposium to Strengthen the Partnership with Industry will be held on Monday, February 17, during the second week of the fifty-first session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and will happen in parallel to the planning meeting to the Ninth Meeting of ICG and its Providers’ Forum, at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria.
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