GNSS (all systems)

Navitec 2016

Navitec 2016

ESTEC interior

NAVITEC is an annual navigation conference hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA). This year’s event will take place at ESA’s Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands on December 14, 15 and 16, 2016. The theme is "Navigating the Future of Transportation."

The scope of the workshop includes navigation equipment and techniques, including receivers, payloads, signals, navigation algorithms, signal processing techniques and terrestrial and space GNSS applications.

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
mayjune16-TETEWSKY-500px.jpg
May 19, 2016

Inter-Signal Correction Sensitivity Analysis

Symbols and Acronyms

Modernized GPS satellites give civil users the ability to achieve dual L1/L2 PY accuracy using dual L1CA/L2C ionosphere-free measurements and, with IIF satellites, dual L1/L5 signals. Because broadcast GPS ephemeris data is based on an ionosphere-free pseudorange calculated from dual L1PY/L2PY measurements and the civil signals are not all perfectly aligned to it, new broadcast parameters and a new modernized dual-frequency algorithm are needed in order to align new signals with the dual L1/L2 PY signal.

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
[uam_ad id="183541"]
ICG+ 2016: IAG / CPGPS Joint International Conference on GNSS+
May 1, 2016

ICG+ 2016: IAG / CPGPS Joint International Conference on GNSS+

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory buildings

The Chinese Professionals in GPS (CPGPS) sponsor their first International Conference on GNSS+ from July 27 through July 30, 2016. It will take place at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) in Shanghai, China. The International Association of Geodesy (IAG) cosponsors the event.

The deadline for abstract submission has passed.

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
Up in the AIRR
March 28, 2016

Up in the AIRR

Anyone who has sat through several iterations of a slide presentation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can’t help but wonder if there isn’t a better way to do things.

As speakers flip through an exhaustively vetted series of PowerPoint slides, squeezing out a new bullet point or two from one version to the next six months later, watching paint dry seems like a more productive — and briefer — use of one’s time. The agency sometimes brings a whole new meaning to the concept of geological time.

Read More >

By Dee Ann Divis
GNSS Hotspots | March 2016

GNSS Hotspots | March 2016

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

Dangerous Games in Rio, Animal Trackers, Chinese Logistics and The Radiation Club

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
[uam_ad id="183541"]
Sandy Kennedy: Here to Stay
March 18, 2016

Sandy Kennedy: Here to Stay

Sandy Kennedy and her husband Arlin Amundrud

>>Sandy Kennedy’s Compass Points

Sandy Kennedy grew up in Miami. Miami, Manitoba, Canada, that is — a town of 150 people with a school, a café, a defunct railroad station, and an ice skating rink.

Now she’s director and chief engineer in charge of receiver core cards at NovAtel Inc., a developer and manufacturer of high-precision GNSS products headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. It’s a long way from where she started, but then again, maybe not.

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
What are the fundamentals of an effective GNSS test plan?

What are the fundamentals of an effective GNSS test plan?

Q. What are the fundamentals of an effective GNSS test plan?  

A. One aspect of GNSS development that engineers often find challenging is the lack of common testing standards and procedures. This can make life difficult for the engineer tasked with constructing a test plan for a new GNSS-enabled system. How much testing is proportionate, at which stages of development? What are the key performance parameters to measure? What apparatus is best suited to the application, and what are the appropriate pass/fail criteria?

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
How Privatizing Air Traffic Control Could Affect Satellite Navigation’s Role in Aviation

How Privatizing Air Traffic Control Could Affect Satellite Navigation’s Role in Aviation

The satellite-based NextGen program is in trouble — no question about it.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic modernization effort will likely cost triple its original $40-billion program budget and need an extra decade — until 2035 or beyond — to reach completion, according to 2014 testimony by Department of Transportation (DoT) Inspector General Calvin Scovel.

Read More >

By Dee Ann Divis
RIN Event: The Future of GNSS
March 17, 2016

RIN Event: The Future of GNSS

Southampton’s Town Walls

The Royal Institute of Navigation will host a one-day event on The Future of GNSS with speaker Prof. Terry Moore on April 21, 2016 at the Warsash Maritime Academy in Southampton, England.

The speaker will outline the future of GNNS and its systems, anticipated changes and the impact of these developments.

This meeting which is joint with the NI and UK Hydro Society will be followed by the RIN Solent branch AGM.

This event is free. Prior booking not required, guests are welcome.

Read More >

By Inside GNSS
1 … 110 111 112 113 114 … 158
IGM_e-news_subscribe