March 23, 2014
Figures 11 & 12: An Airborne Experimental Test Platform
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Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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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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Marc Weiss’ Favorite EquationGNSS Event that most signifies for you that GNSS has “arrived”
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Weiss at the helm during sailboat outing to San Juan Islands (top), Marc Weiss and wife, Pam (bottom)SIDEBAR: Marc Weiss’ Compass Points
In a career spanning nearly the entire history of GNSS-enhanced metrology, Marc Weiss has been a key participant in projects that laid the foundation for accurate synchronization of atomic clocks around the world.
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Elizabeth Rooney at home with Hana and JosephGNSS event that most signified to you that GNSS had “arrived”
Two events stand out:
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Main antenna on FOC Galileo satelliteSIDEBAR: Elizabeth Rooney’s Compass Points
Going for her first big job interview after college, Elizabeth Rooney admits she didn’t know what GPS was.
“It was 1995,” she says, “and I was going in to see about this job. I had been looking at some literature from the company I was interviewing with, and there it was, ‘GPS.’ I wondered what the letters meant when I saw them.”
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Ismael Colomina, wife Carmina, and children Jan and Eulalia on vacation in BrazilI Fell In Love With GNSS When . . .
“Two GNSS-related experiences really impressed me as a young professional and that I’ve never forgotten. The first involved adjusting a GPS-supported (GPS aerial control) aerial triangulation. By getting rid of most ground control points we managed to produce new results.
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Ismael ColominaSIDEBAR: Ismael Colomina’s Compass Points
Ismael Colomina began his career in 1982. “So, in a way,” he says, “I grew up as a professional at the same time GPS was growing up and maturing. GNSS has always been present in my working life; so, I never experienced the ‘GNSS, aha!’ moment. Rather, I never stopped thinking ‘GNSS, of course!’"
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