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Location & Beyond Summit 2010 Features Location-Aware Innovation Awards
August 12, 2010

Location & Beyond Summit 2010 Features Location-Aware Innovation Awards

Wireless pioneer Andrew Seybold and Kanwar Chada, founder of SiRF Technology, will select the finalists for the People’s Choice awards for best location innovation at the 2010 Location & Beyond Summit on October 6. The event focuses on the "transformative effects of connecting everything and everyone, everyplace." 

The four-year-old summit — formerly Location 2.0 — will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise and Applications 2010 conference.

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By Inside GNSS
Locations & Beyond Summit 2010

Locations & Beyond Summit 2010

The Locations & Beyond Summit — a four-year-old event with a new name — will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco on October 6, 2010, during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise and Applications 2010 conference.

Organizer CSR says the event will focus on the " transformative effects of connecting everything and everyone, everyplace." Panels and discussions are aimed at developers of new location-aware products,applications, services and technologies. 

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By Inside GNSS
Topcon Releases Software for IP
August 2, 2010

Topcon Releases Software for IP

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has announced the release of Spatial Factory software.

The software interface allows users to work with the combination of point cloud, trajectory, and panoramic image data that comes from the Topcon IP-S2 3D mobile mapping system.

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By Inside GNSS
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Latest Updates on Satellite Navigation — Only at NaviForum Shanghai 2010
July 30, 2010

Latest Updates on Satellite Navigation — Only at NaviForum Shanghai 2010

[Reprinted with permission from NAVIBIZ, Issue Date: 2010-7-23]

On June 2, China successfully launched the fourth BeiDou navigation satellite into the pre-designated orbit, symbolizing that China has made another important step forward in building the BeiDou (COMPASS) Navigation Satellite System. As is known to all, satellite navigation and positioning system is the key strategic infrastructure for information, and it will influence the process of social civilization and change people’s ideas about life, time and space.

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By Inside GNSS
GNSS Simulators
July 27, 2010

GNSS Simulators

FIGURE 1: GNSS multi-channel signal simulator 10 years ago on its own (left) and with its ever-growing family (right)

For the complete story, including figures, graphs, and images, please download the PDF of the article, above.

In this article we describe the design and operation of a generic GNSS RF simulator. We also will look at the main types of GNSS RF simulators, their designs and specifics, their advantages and disadvantages.

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By Inside GNSS
Meet GINA

Meet GINA

GINA On-Board Unit (OBU)

For at least the past two decades, managing traffic on Europe’s road networks has been a growing concern for European policy makers and citizens alike. While demand for transport has consistently increased over the years, Europe’s road network capacity has failed to keep pace, leading to increasing levels of congestion and pollution.

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By Inside GNSS
Interesting. Too Interesting?
July 21, 2010

Interesting. Too Interesting?

In the world of GNSS we usually think of more as better. More systems, more satellites, more signals — all contribute to greater availability of robust positioning, navigation, and timing.

Certainly that was the mood at the June meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation — GNSS Implementation Team (APEC-GIT) in Seattle, Washington.

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By Inside GNSS
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Lockheed Martin Unveils GPS Exhibit at the United Nations in Vienna
July 16, 2010

Lockheed Martin Unveils GPS Exhibit at the United Nations in Vienna

Rick Ambrose, Lockheed Martin vice-president and general manager, surveillance and navigation systems, introduces GPS Block III model for Permanent Space Exhibit at United Nations Committee on Pea, Vienna,

Lockheed Martin has opened a GPS exhibit as a part of the Permanent Space Exhibit of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Austria, to emphasize the importance of satellite navigation technology serving millions of citizens around the globe.

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By Inside GNSS
Royal Institute of Navigation NAV10 Conference
July 14, 2010

Royal Institute of Navigation NAV10 Conference

Convocation Hall, Church House

The theme of NAV10 is "Position, Location, Timing: Everyone, Everything, Everywhere

The international Royal Insitute of Navigation conference will take place from November 30 to December 2 at Church House, Westminster, London.

The event attracts users and specialists in all areas of navigation. It will run as two parallel sessions over three days and will cover all major applications including marine, aerospace and ground vehicle navigation.

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By Inside GNSS
NavTech GPS Tutorials (before ION GNSS 2010)
July 10, 2010

NavTech GPS Tutorials (before ION GNSS 2010)

Doubletree Hotel-Lloyd Center, Portland

NavTech GPS will offer its 24th series of seminars at the Doubletree – LLoyd Center hotel before the ION GNSS 2010 conference in Portland, Oregon.

The tutorials will be held on Monday, September 20 and Tuesday, September 21.

In addition to GPS fundamentals, rleceiver technology, differential GPS, GPS business, environmental effects and indoor positioning, new topics include:

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By Inside GNSS
GNSS Solutions Tutorials (held before ION GNSS 2010)

GNSS Solutions Tutorials (held before ION GNSS 2010)

Oregon Convention Center interior

GNSS Solutions Ltd. offers tutorials and seminars on Monday, September 20 and Tuesday, September 21, before the Institute of Navigation conference, ION GNSS 2010.

The company’s comprehensive tutorial/seminar program will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, where the ION GNSS conference takes place.

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By Inside GNSS
Six U.S. and Canadian GNSS Experts Will Judge USA Challenge Applications Ideas

Six U.S. and Canadian GNSS Experts Will Judge USA Challenge Applications Ideas

Six GNSS business, technical and applications experts will judge the USA Challenge, North America’s first regional foray into the the 7-year old European Satellite Navigation Competition (Galileo Masters). The ESNC has become a worldwide race to see who can develop the most innovative applications ideas using GPS, GLONASS, Galileo or EGNOS, Compass/Beidou 2 or any of the regional and augmentation systems.

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By Inside GNSS
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