Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Don’t be misled by the title. This is not another round of speculation about who should be proclaimed the rightful “Father of GPS.”
By Inside GNSS
A. J. Van DierendonckThe world’s GNSS systems are entering a phase of transformation — modernization of existing systems (the U.S. Global Positioning System and Russia’s GLONASS) and development of new systems (China’s BeiDou and Europe’s Galileo) that benefit from the lessons learned from the original GNSSs.
Notable among the modernization initiatives is an interest in implementing new satellite signal designs. These include the GPS L5, L2C, and L1C signals as well as those signals designed for Galileo and BeiDou. GLONASS designers are also working on modernized signals.
By Inside GNSS
Article EquationsWorking Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter Hein, head of Europe’s Galileo Operations and Evolution.
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In this article, we will take a look at the various GNSS signals from the perspective of their cost-benefit tradeoffs. First, we’ll look at the evolution of consumer GPS architecture to date — where acquisition speed and sensitivity have been the main drivers of receiver architecture. That architecture has evolved rapidly to take full advantage of the characteristics of the GPS C/A code.
By Inside GNSS
Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs comprise a category of aircraft that fly without a human operator onboard. They are more popularly referred to by the misleading moniker “drones,” which masks the wide variety in their design and capability.
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A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s fourth international conference this summer.
It will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 2 through June 5, 2014.
Registration is now open. Early bird rates end April 25, 2014.
By Inside GNSS
Satellite image of Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. The tenth annual GEOINT Symposium and exhibition will take place on April 14-17 2014 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.
Registration is now open.
The symposium’s theme is “Operationalizing Intelligence for Global Missions.”
By Inside GNSS
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
Vienna, AustriaThe 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
Prague’s medieval astronomical clockThe 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
