Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Rathaus (City Hall) in ViennaThe 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly and exhibition will take place in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from April 12 – 17, 2015.
The early registration deadline is March 12, 2015. The program will be available after February 25.
Session topics of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS include:
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Atlanta Botanical Garden canopy walkThe 2015 Unmanned Systems conference and trade show sponsored by AUVSI will be held from May 4 – 7 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The call for papers has closed. Registration information will be available in January.
The conference features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems and robotics industry. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.
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A popular stolby for climbing, near the city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The United Nations/Russian Federation Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems will take place in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation, from May 18 – 22, 2015.
The completed application form, together with a presentation abstract, should be submitted online to the Office for Outer Space Affairs no later than Friday, February 27, 2015.
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Altes Schloss, Stuttgart, GermanyThe 2015 InterGEO Trade Fair and Conference for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will take place at Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany from September 15 to 17, 2015.
It attracts 16,000 visitors from 92 countries who work in the surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry fields. This is the event’s 21st year.
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Bayshore Boulevard, Tampa, FloridaION GNSS+ 2015 will take place at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida from September 14 through 18. Tutorials will take place on September 14 and 15. The exhibit hall will be open on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Abstract Submission Deadline has passed.
Early bird registration ends August 14, 2015.
The conference is now called ION GNSS+ to highlight its expanded emphasis on GNSS and the rapidly evolving field of alternative navigation methods.
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The Institute of Navigation’s 2015 International Technical Meeting will take place January 26-28 at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Hotel in Dana Point California.
Online registration is available. Discounted Registration and hotel reservations end January 5.
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The Convention Centre BordeauxThe 22nd World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services will be held at the Convention Centre Bordeaux and Exhibition Centre Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France on October 5 – 9, 2015. It will focus on how achieving intelligent mobility will change our lives, and the benefits space can bring to ITS applications.
The theme for this year’s event is “Towards Intelligent Mobility – Better Use of Space”, and will offer Plenary, Executive, Technical/Scientific, Special Interest and Interactive Sessions.
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One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859
1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)
Nouméa ground station after the flood
A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat
Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV
Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)
“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder. 
Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram
Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST
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Beijing, China
Every so often, anthropologists — and maybe a few mathematicians — have a field day puzzling over the origins of our positional base-10 numeral system.
Oh, not the historical origins themselves, the Hindu-Arabic innovations beginning in the 5th and 6th centuries. That’s all pretty much agreed.
No, I’m referring to the possible physiological inspirations, the readily visible digits at the ends of our limbs: 10 fingers, 10 toes.
Coincidence? Does nature have coincidents, or does it abhor them like vacuums — o horror vacui?
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Moscone CenterThe 47th American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting will take place from December 15-19, 2014 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Registration information can be found here.
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Efficient power transmission and distribution would benefit from synchronized near–real-time measurements of voltage and current phasors at widely dispersed locations in an electric power grid. Such measurements also could enable effective real-time system monitoring and control, which are considered to be the key to preventing wide-scale cascading outages like the 2003 Northeast Blackout.
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As a navigation satellite transmits multiple signals on single frequency (e.g., Open Service and Restricted Service over L5 Band), these are combined on a common carrier to comprise a composite signal. This composite signal passes through navigation payload subsystems such as an up-converter, traveling wave tube amplifier (TWTA), filters, and so on. These subsystems may introduce adverse effects on the signal, such as amplitude and phase distortion, nonlinear effects, gain imbalance, IQ imbalance, and phase noise.
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Figure 2: Sky plot showing position of IRNSS and GPS satellites over Helsinki Finland on November 6, 2014 at 16:10 local time.The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)] is designed as a stand-alone regional navigation system with a primary service area extending up to 1,500 kilometers from the Indian land mass. Finland lies north of 60°N latitude more than 5,000 kilometers away from India, as shown in Figure 1 (see photo at the top of this article).
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