Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
On Thursday, December 5, Inside GNSS will host a FREE web seminar on “The Role of GNSS Antennas in Mitigating Jamming & Interference.”
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ION’s Pacific PNT Conference 2015 will take place April 20-23, 2015 at the Marriott Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The conference brings together policy and technical leaders from the Pacific Rim for policy updates, program status and technical exchanges on positioning, navigation and timing. The conference will include tutorials and a table-top exhibition.
Call for Abstracts will be available in Fall 2014. Registration will open in the Winter of 2014.
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The Institute of Navigation’s 2014 International Technical Meeting will take place January 27, 28 and 29 at the Catamaran Resort and Spa in San Diego, California.
The plenary session topics include:
The technical sessions address:
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The nearby Tampa Theatre. The 1926 movie palace still plays its Wurlitzer organ before showsThis will be the 27th international technical meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation. It is the world’s largest and oldest GNSS conference, founded in 1987 as the ION GPS conference.
The conference is now called ION GNSS+ to highlight its expanded emphasis on GNSS and the rapidly evolving field of alternative navigation methods.
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Microsemi Corporation and Symmetricom, Inc., have announced a definitive agreement for Microsemi to acquire the San Jose, California–based precision time and frequency provider.
The agreement offers stockholders $7.18 per share through a cash tender, representing a premium of 49 percent based on the average closing price of Symmetricom’s shares of common stock during the 90 trading days ended October 18, 2013. The total transaction value is approximately $230 million, net of Symmetricom’s projected cash balance at closing.
A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recent decision to suppress evidence in a criminal case obtained by placing a GPS-based tracking unit on a suspect’s van appears to strengthen the requirement for police to obtain warrants before taking such measures.
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Components of a Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crash Avoidance System. Sources: Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership and GAOA Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies released today (November 1, 2013) identified concerns about GPS accuracy and relative positioning that could limit its use in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) systems.
However, U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) officials responding to the GAO study expressed confidence that the quality of GPS receivers in today’s automobiles will be sufficient to support V2V safety applications.
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Flight management system on Airbus 319. Wikimedia Commons photo by Ralf RoletschekActing on a set of recommendations by an advisory committee, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today (October 31, 2013) the agency’s determination that airlines can safely expand passenger use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) during all phases of flight.
New guidelines for the airlines will allow the use of PEDs, typically consumer electronbics ranging from tablet computers, e-readers, and GPS receivers to small devices such as MP3 players and electronic toys, even during takeoff and landing under normal conditions.
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KVH Industries, Inc., introduced the multi-axis DSP-1760 fiber optic gyro (FOG) today (October 21, 2013) at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting and exposition, AUSA 2013, in Washington, D.C.
The unit’s novel design combines 1, 2, or 3 axes of high-performance FOGs within an easy-to-integrate housing, according to the company. Depending on the application, an optimal combination of axes can be integrated within an environmentally sealed, lightweight enclosure.
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has released its third market report, which predicts an installed base of 7 billion devices worldwide by 2022 — almost one for every person on the planet.
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New technologies are emerging to fill the gap left by GNSS services whose signals cannot penetrate indoor spaces. Using everything from triangulation and flickering light bulbs to the Earth’s magnetic field, start-up companies are lining up to help brick-and-mortar retailers beat back their online competition with location-inspired service.
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Although delayed for a year for lack of funding — and delayed yet again by the government shutdown — research to help set GPS-protecting interference standards appears poised to get underway.
The ABC or Adjacent-Band Compatibility Assessment is part of a broad plan to draft spectrum interference standards covering all GPS civil receivers. The approach would give potential users of frequencies neighboring the GPS band clear limits so they can test and plan accordingly.
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Piazza Goldoni, Trieste, ItalyThe second session of Training EGNOS GNSS in Africa (TREGA), "GNSS Systems and Applications" and "Service Provision, User Support and Promotion of EGNOS Use in Africa," will take place at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy beginning January 20, 2013.
Attendance is open to participants from African or European countries. The application deadline is November 1, 2013.
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