Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The first workshop on passive reflectometry using radiocom space signals is organized by two technical competence centers (CCT) of the French space agency, CNES. They are signal and images processing (TSI) and Position datation by satellite (PDS).
It will take place on December 1 2010 at the Institut Aero Spatial in Toulouse, France.
By Inside GNSS
Royal Geographical SocietyA one-day symposium on navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles will take place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, in London on February 1, 2011 from 9 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.
It is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) and will cover design and operation of UAVs, including:
• Mission planning
• Remote control
• Autonomous control
• Navigation sensors and integration
• Terrain mapping
• Legislation
• Safety
ENC 2011, the European Satellite Navigation conference, will be organized by the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) at London’s new Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in the heart of the City. The hotel is next to St. Paul’s cathedral and close to Oxford and Regent streets.
The annual ENC focuses on European satellite navigation developments. It is hosted by EUGIN, the European Group of Insitutes of Navigation.
By Inside GNSS
Organizers of an ambitious project in the Asia/Oceania region demonstrating the benefits and opportunities for using multiple GNSS systems are moving ahead in their effort to design and implement a five-year campaign.
The 2nd Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on November 21–22, in the two days before the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Form (APRSAF) annual meeting in the city.
By Inside GNSS
A Salzburg, Austria–based start-up company, Mobilizy, took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 (ESNC 2010) for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality (AR) to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones.
By Inside GNSS
A secure mobile application that enables secure voting and polling from location-capable mobile devices has won the 2010 USA Challenge — the North American regional event in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).
By Inside GNSS
Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), Livermore, California, has announced the addition of the IP-S2 HD Mapping System to its line of mobile mapping solutions.
The IP-S2 HD is a vehicle-mounted surveying and mapping system featuring a high-definition LiDAR scanner from Velodyne Lidar, Inc. The system incorporates high-precision GNSS receivers, an inertial measurement unit, vehicle wheel encoder, 360-degree digital cameras and Velodyne’s HDL-64E S2.2 LiDAR scanner.
By Inside GNSS
Spirent and Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have announced the integration of AGI’s STK (Satellite Tool Kit) and Spirent’s SimGEN software.
Spirent says the link enables the software packages to communicate to allow trajectories created in STL to be used readily to define the motion in Spirent’s hardware GNSS simulators. SimGEN test-case motion also can be visualized in STK.
By Inside GNSS
Calgary, Alberta: Canadian high-tech center and home to rivals NovAtel and Hemisphere GPSTwo Canadian companies — NovAtel and Hemisphere GPS — that over the years had positioned their products somewhat separately along the GNSS OEM technology spectrum appear to be moving toward a more head-to-head competition.
By Inside GNSS
[UPDATED Oct. 21, 2010] Contestants from all over the United States and the world have sent in their new GNSS apps to the USA Challenge — the North America regional contest in the 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).
The judges, all GNSS business and technology experts, have ranked the submissions.
And the five best satellite navigation applications ideas are . . .
By Inside GNSS
Catamaran Hotel, San DiegoThe Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 24-26 at the Catamaran Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego California.
Paul Kline of Honeywell Aerospace is the general chair. Jade Morton of Miami University, Ohio, is the program chair.
"Robotics Navigation" is the plenary session topic. Invited speakers will discuss current trends and future technologies that support navigation for surveillance, search and rescue, undergound and underwater robotics and unmanned air vehicles.
By Inside GNSS
Moscone CenterThe 2010 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California from Monday, December 13 to Friday, December 17.
There are dozens of GNSS-related presentations at this AGU mega-meeting of 16,000 space and earth scientists. The preliminary program lists 770 scientific sessions in climate change, space weather, planetary exploration, volcanism and seismology, Earth’s magnetic field and more.
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FIGURE 1: Screenshot of RF simulation software showing GPS + GLONASS + Galileo constellationsIn the first article in this series (Inside GNSS, July/August, 2010) we looked at the range of tasks that require GNSS signal simulation during design, manufacturing, certification, and maintenance of GNSS equipment. The second installment (Inside GNSS, September, 2010) described a range of simulation solutions.
In this final article, we try to find a simulation solution that best suits a particular task.
By Inside GNSS
