Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The mobile industry’s largest exhibition takes place at Fira Montjuïc in the center of Barcelona, Spain on February 14-17 2011.
This year’s keynote speakers include Eric Schmidt, chairman/CEO of
Google; Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer; Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square; Dick
Costolo, CEO of Twitter; and Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! and other corporate leaders.
Residenz entrance, familiar to Munich Satellite Navigation Summit attendees.The 2011 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit will take place from March 1 through 3 in Der Residenz, the palace of the old Bavarian royal family and now home to four museums.
The event features high-level discussions about all of the world’s navigation satellite systems. It is organized by the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation at University FAF Munich.
The technical program begines with a plenary presentation on "GNSS in Balance," followed by a Bavarian State Reception.
By Inside GNSS
Thailand’s largest island and a popular tourist destinationThe 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.
The free event will take place at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Storey Hall at 342 Swanston Street. Registration is required on the event website.
By Inside GNSS
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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
