Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Septentrio and FreeFlight Systems will develop new GPS/SBAS (Satellite Based Augmentation System) receivers for air traffic control as part of a new strategic partnership announced on April 13.
By Inside GNSS
The tenth GPS Partnership Council meeting will take place at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, on May 4 and 5, 2010.
The theme is "Advancing PNT Changes Today…Securing the World’s Needs Tomorrow." Conference sessions will take place at the Gordon Conference Center (Building 270).
By Inside GNSS
European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards 2009The European Satellite Navigation Competition (Galileo Masters), now in its seventh year, is seeking the best ideas for satellite navigation applications from companies, entrepreneurs, research institutes, universities, and individuals. Prizes total more than €500,000.
The 2010 contest begins on May 1, when competitors may register and submit their ideas online at the secure ESNC website. It closes on July 31.
By Inside GNSS
Tony Russo, U.S. National Office for Space-Based PNTAh, another Munich Summit plenary session filled with many already-knowns and former unknowns, the latter mostly conveyed in nuances and bon mots.
More about that in news reportage to come.
But in the event’s venue, a recently restored All-Saints Church under der Residenz, the speakers may have felt a little lingering moral pressure to tell the truth. So, a sampler plate of comments may be in order.
By Inside GNSS
A dramatic site in the Columbia River Gorge,a few miles outside of Portland, OregonAbstracts are due this Friday for the fall ION GNSS conference.
By Inside GNSS
Prof. David Last at DSKTN symposiumThe noise floor seems to be rising on the subject of GNSS vulnerability to jamming and interference. Recently, the United Kingdom provided the locus for a trio of initiatives that reflect growing anxieties about the widespread global dependence of critical position, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications and infrastructures on the low-power signals from space.
By Inside GNSS
The annual Space Weather Workshop will take place at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, Colorado on April 27-30 2010. The registration deadline is April 2.
The program highlights space weather impacts in several areas, including communications, navigation, spacecraft operations, aviation, and electric power.
At the 2010 conference, discussions of GNSS impacts will take place all morning right after the opening remarks on Tuesday, April 27.
By Inside GNSS
A new Canadian company, Tallysman Wireless, Inc., has entered the GNSS antennas and RF modules marketplace.
By Inside GNSS
International CTIA Wireless, the mobile industry’s annual mega-trade show in Las Vegas, takes place at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Tuesday, March 23 through Thursday, March 25 2010 with a pre-conference on March 22.
It covers everything – technology to retail – about wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, applications, mobile web and data.
Educational sessions on March 23 and 24 include one aimed at engineers and designers, "Next-Gen Networks and Devices."
By Inside GNSS
The largest annual event focusing on international ground, air and maritime unmanned systems will take place this year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver from August 24 through 27 2010.
It is sponsored by the industry organization, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).
Organizers expect 5,000 people from 30 countries to attend the four days of general sessions, workshops, poster sessions and live demonstrations of civil, commercial and military applications.
By Inside GNSS
The 2010 Toulouse Space Show will take place at the Pierre Baudis Convention Center in Toulouse, France on June 8-11 2010. It’s a veritable festival of European space applications.
It includes a commercial exhibition, technical events, and six conferences:
Spirent Federal Systems specializes in GPS and GNSS test technology. Its GNSS test systems can be tailored for government or industry needs, including support for encrypted military codes, interference simulation, commercial GPS applications and high dynamic testing. The company will hold identical training conferences this year on the East and West coasts.
The West Coast conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Anaheim/Orange County, Anaheim, California.
By Inside GNSS
Rolling deadlines begin on November 6 for application developers from five regions of the world who wish to register for the popular NAVTEQ 2010 Global LBS Challenge.
This year’s five grand prize winners will be announced just before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February 14.
By Inside GNSS
