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COSPAR 2012: Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly

Ceremonial room in the Mysore Palace, now a public museum.

The 39th scientific assembly of COSPAR, the Committee On Space Research, willl take place from July 14 to July 22, 2012 at the Global Education Centre-2, Infosys Training Centre, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore is known as the "City of Palaces."

The topics are fundmentals and relevance of space science and technological innovations and applications. Of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS are sessions on atomic clocks, space weather, space debris, satellite dynamic and the ionosphere.

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TRANSNAV 2013: Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation

Transnav 2011

The 10th TRANSNAV symposium will be held June 19-21, 2013 at Gdynia, Poland, a seaport and resort city on the south coast of the Baltic.

The biennial event is an opportunity for scientists and professionals in navigation, transport, ocean engineering and maritime technology to share knowledge and research on all aspects of maritime navigation and safety of sea transportation. The symposium is held in English.

The organizers expect 300 participants from 50 countries or more.

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May 22, 2012

IEEE ICRA 2013: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

The Pyramid, a Karlsruhe landmark

IEEE’s giant robotics conference comes to Karlsruhe, Germany in 2013, with the theme "Anthropomatics-Technologies for Humans."

The event will take place at the Karlsruhe convention center (Knogresszentrum Karlsruhe) on May 6-10, 2013.

The conference covers every possible aspect of robotics development from body form and movement, programming and learning, hardware and software to lots of positioning, navigation and timing aspects.

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Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS

Billed as the "First International Conference" on new trends and applications of GNSS, this new event is sponsored and organized by the Space Science Center at Cairo University.

It will take place at Cairo University in Giza city from September 1 to 4 2012. The conference language is English.

Paper abstracts are due by July 15, midnight Cairo Standard Time. Submit them online at the website below.

With more services and signals, the GNSS landscape is changing and new trends and applications must be considered.

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ICG Workshop on GNSS spectrum protection, interference detection and mitigation

The International Committee on GNSS will hold a workshop on GNSS spectrum protection, interference detection and mitigation on June 7 and 8, 2012 in the United Nations International Centre in Vienna, Austria.

The workshop will take place in conference room M-7. It will be held in conjunction with the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) 2012 session, which runs from June 6 to June 16.

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9th Annual Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar

The National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) offers this comprehensive course on clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, quantum information and more for those who work with time and frequency systems at all levels of experience.

The seminar will take place June 5 through 8 at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado, source of the United States’ official time.

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Nordic Institute of Navigation workshop on GNSS interference and jamming

Satellite image of Svalbard (NASA)

The Nordic Institute of Navigation general assembly and one-day seminar on GNSS interference and jamming will take place at the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo on Thursday, May 24. It will begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 3:45 p.m. Participation is free to all.Lunch is free for NNF members.

Presentations will cover:

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May 21, 2012

Korea GNSS Society Conference

One of the natural wonders of Jeju island.

The 2012 Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, previously known as the GNSS Workshop, will be held on November 8 and 9 at Phoenix Island resort on Jeju, Korea.

The general chair is Philho Peter Park, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.

The event has been held since 1994, when Korea’s GPS Technology Council (now GNSS) was established.

While the English language website has some information on deadlines and conference history, information on papers and registration is available in Korean only.

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May 10, 2012

Spectracom Introduces GSG-62 Multi-GNSS Constellation Simulator

Spectracom GSG-62

Spectracom has announced its new dual-frequency, 32-channel multi-GNSS simulator, the GSG-62.

The GSG-62 offers multiple frequency band operation, multiple-GNSS constellation simulation, and expansion capability for more frequency bands and channels, including support for upgrades to GPS L2C and L5, as well as future GNSS systems.

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April 30, 2012

Falcone Appears Ready to Step Away from LightSquared Role in Face of Creditors, GPS Interference

New York’s 450 Park Avenue, home of Harbinger Capital

Harbinger Capital Management LLC fund manager Philip Falcone has reportedly agreed to eventually withdraw from his leadership position with LightSquared Inc., the would-be wireless broadband that ran into problems because its proposed terrestrial transmitters would have caused interference to GPS receivers.

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ICINS 2012: International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems

The Winter Channel during the White Nights

The 19th International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems will take place at Central Scientific and Research Institute "Elektropribor" in St. Petersburg on May 28-30, 2012.

The conference is being held during the lively "White Nights" tourist season, when the sun stays up until 11 p.m. or later. An English-language sight-seeing tour of St. Petersburg the evenoing of May 28 is included in the conference fee.

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April 26, 2012

Trimble to Acquire SketchUp — Google 3D Modeling Tool

Example of site logistic design by M.A. Mortenson Company using Google’s SketchUp 3D modeling tool

Trimble announced plans today (April 26, 2012) to acquire SketchUp, a popular 3D modeling tools, from its Silicon Valley neighbor, Google, Inc.

Sunnyvale, California–based Trimble signed a definitive agreement with Google, headquartered in Mountain View, with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of 2012. Although the companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal, a Trimble news release said the transaction “is not expected to be material to 2012 earnings per share.”

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