Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.
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European Space Agency’s ESTEC in NoordwijkEuropean Space Agency’s ESTEC in NoordwijkNavtechGPS will offer a four-day public venue course from March 5 though 8 at the European Space Agency’s Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.
"Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals" (Course 541) will be taught by John Betz, MITRE and James Sennott, Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc.
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Plenary session at a previous Satellite Navigation Forum.The sixth International Satellite Navigation Forum will take place during the NAVITECH exhibition at the Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow, Russia on April 17 and 18, 2012.
The purpose of the forum is to discuss GLONASS and other GNSSes in the economy of Russia, developing commercial and civic uses for GLONASS, Russian national policy on the use of GLONASS, regional systems, new equipment and services and the development of single international standards in the field of satellite navigation.
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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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In 1589, at the age of 25, Galileo Galilei toiled up the 294 steps of a 55-meter bell tower in Pisa, Italy, where he was tutoring math students at the time.
According to his pupil and later biographer, Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo carried with him two cannonballs, one twice the weight of the other. When he reached the top of the tower, he went to the lower balcony of the tilted structure and dropped the two balls simultaneously.
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UNSW, the conference venue, is 4.3 miles (7 km) from Sydney city center.The 2012 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) will take place at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia From November 13 to 15.
The keynote, by Google’s Waleed Kadous, is "The Indoor Tipping Point: Lessons from Indoor at Scale."
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The Hilton Helsinki Strand at nightUPINLBS 2012 will take place on the Gulf of Finland waterfront at the Hilton Strand in Helsinki, Finland on October 3 and 4. The conference venue is 1/2 mile (0.8 km ) from the center of the city.
John Raquet, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology ; Mark Petovello, University of Calgary and Rafael Lucas, GNSS Evolution and Strategy Division, European Space Agency will deliver the keynotes.
The topics are:
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Lake StarnbergThe 2012 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 in Starnberg, near Munich, Germany.
ICL-GNSS 2012 will address the latest research on satellite-based and complementary positioning techniques for use outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone
navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.
Abstracts may be submitted online beginning in February. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 2, 2012.
Topic areas include:
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Baska, Krk Island beach
This annual seminar on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and
covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the global navigation satellite
systems and efforts to improve accuracy and reliability.
The sixth GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference will take place at Baska on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from May 21 to May 24, 2012.
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If the readership of insidegnss.com news is any indication, 2011 was the year of LightSquared.
Articles about the would-be wireless broadband company that wants FCC approval to set up a terrestrial network transmitting on frequencies next door to GPS and other GNSS L1 signals garnered the most page views on our website for 6 out of 12 months.
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LightSquared today (December 21, 2011) asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to confirm the company’s right to use spectrum licensed to it and that commercial GPS manufacturers have no right to interference protection from LightSquared’s proposed wireless broadband network.
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A survey of 140 attendees at last week’s European Navigation Conference (ENC 2011) in London, England, produced a fascinating assessment of GNSS expectations in the coming years — and how that assessment has changed since 2007.
Sponsored by Helios, a UK business and technology consultancy working in the transportation and technology domains, the survey asked delegates eight questions with multiple choice answers, and recorded their responses using handheld keypads and live electronic voting.
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A GPS app on a Japanese smartphone. The GPS Council there told the FCC that any signal degradation could jeopardize the Global Positioning System’s standing as a global standard.LightSquared has dropped, for now, efforts to expand its wireless broadband plans to markets in other countries, Inside GNSS has learned.
The Virginia firm was working this summer on proposals to the International Telecommunication Union, including one aimed at addressing compatibility issues between ground stations or “complementary ground components” of mobile satellite services and other frequency-using services.
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