Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile) course "GNSS: Principles, Augmentations and Evolutions of EGNOS" will be held at the ENAC Administrative Head Office in Toulouse, France on May 12 – 23, 2014.
Registration is now open.
By Inside GNSS
The Symposium to Strengthen the Partnership with Industry will be held on Monday, February 17, during the second week of the fifty-first session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and will happen in parallel to the planning meeting to the Ninth Meeting of ICG and its Providers’ Forum, at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria.
By Inside GNSS
The annual Space Weather Workshop will take place on April 8-11 2014 at Millennium Hotel in Boulder, Colorado.
Registration is now open. Sunday, March 23 is the registration and abstract submission deadline.
This meeting will bring together customers, forecasters, vendors, government agencies and researchers of space weather information.
By Inside GNSS
NavtechGPS Spring GNSS Training 2014 will take place April 1-4, at Loews Annapolis Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
Register by February 15 and get a $100 Discount for 4-Day Courses.
By Inside GNSS
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) Workshop "European GNSS Applications In H2020" will be held at the CTU Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technická 2, 166 27 PRAGUE, Czech Republic on February 4, 2014. (Note: this is a new venue from the one previously announced.)
By Inside GNSS
The 2014 Unmanned Systems conference and trade show sponsored by AUVSI will be held from May 15 – 19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA.
The call for papers has closed. The early registration deadline is March 15, regular registration through May 10, with onsite registration starting May 11.
The conference features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems market. It covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.
By Inside GNSS
U.S. aviation officials on Monday (December 30, 2013) named the winners of a high-stakes contest to operate one of six new research and test sites for unmanned aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will now work to help the sites set up safe operations and create the structures needed within the agency to help it use the sites’ research results.
By Inside GNSS
A common refrain in the world of GNSS is the desire for “interoperability,” the use of signals from multiple systems without a decline — and potentially even an improvement — in the quality of results.
Achieving this depends on large part in establishing comparable parameters — particularly the geodetic references and timing systems — among the GNSSs along with a dense network of ground reference stations that can provide continuous, precise monitoring of satellites’ orbital positions.
By Inside GNSS
Ionospheric scintillations are rapid temporal fluctuations in both amplitude and phase of trans-ionospheric GNSS signals caused by the scattering of irregularities in the distribution of electrons encountered along the radio propagation path. The occurrence of scintillation has large day-to-day variability. The most severe scintillations are observed near the poles (at auroral latitudes) and near the equator (within ± 20 degrees of geomagnetic equator).
By Inside GNSS
Trying to revive a years-dead federal program is usually the kind of hopeless task that even Sisyphus wouldn’t touch.
But determined supporters of eLoran are gaining ground in their effort to resurrect the cancelled radio-navigation network and, propelled by new worries over GPS jamming, they appear poised push the issue through.
By Dee Ann Divis
GNSS modernization includes not only the global coverage capabilities of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou, but also regional GNSS enhancement systems such as Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
By Inside GNSS
