Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The University of Calgary’s Position Location and Navigation (PLAN) Group is now supporting the North American regional partnership of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), sponsored by NovAtel Inc. and Inside GNSS magazine.
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Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft. NASA imageThis year’s Space Weather Workshop — held April 27–30 in Boulder, Colorado — reflected a heightened interest in the space environment due to solar effects on GPS and other GNSSes. A solar storm is suspected to have caused the anomaly in Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 communications satellite that carries a transponder for the GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS),
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NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) recently announced an approved set of NGS user guidelines for increasingly popular single base real-time (RT) GNSS positioning that provide definitive criteria to achieve various specific levels of precision down to centimeter accuracy at a 95 percent confidence level.
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GPS/cell phone jammerIt sounded like an excellent idea: convince Google to thwart on-line searches for GPS jammers, and, according to Bob Brewin, editor at large for nextgov.com, it worked — at least for a while.
By Inside GNSS
“Science City” campus of ETH, ZurichThe International 2010 PIN Conference and industry exhibition will take place at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg), Zurich, Switzerland from September 15 to 17 2010.
Organizers call it the largest meeting dedicated entirely to indoor positioning, with 196 announced abstracts from 36 countries.
By Inside GNSS
Solar flare (NASA)The 7th Space Weather Week will take place at Congress Centre Oud Sint-Jan in Bruges, Belgium from November 15 to 19 2010. The purpose is to bring the various countries and institutions of Europe together on space weather issues that concern them all.
It is organized by the European Space Agency, the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence, and the European Commission COST office.
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The 17th conference on "The Role of Navigation in Support of Human Activity" will be held in Gdynia, Poland from September 23 to 25 2010. An industry exhibition is part of the event.
The conference will cover the latest developments in navigation and positioning on the water, on land and in the air.
The event targets scientists, engineers from Poland and Europe.
May 15 2010 is the deadline for applications and submission of abstracts.
By Inside GNSS
Aerial shot of Krk Island in the AdriaticThe third GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions conference, sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation, will focus on all aspects of satellite navigation, but particularly these subjects:
It will take place from September 5-8 2010 on the resort island of Krk during the Adriatic high season.
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UPINLBS 2010 will take place on October 14-15 at the Hotel Majvik, an Art Nouveau castle near Helsinki, Finland. The conference fee includes transportation between downtown and the conference venue.
Session topics at this international event include multi-constellation GNSS issues, wireless network and sensor fusion, 3D modelling/mapping for indoor navigation applications and more.
By Inside GNSS
Shanghai World Expo 2010The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS) will hold a technical forum for scientists and engineers within China and internationally on satellite navigation and positioning on August 18-20 2010.
By Inside GNSS
The ENC GNSS 2010 will be held at the Stadhalle Braunschweig, Germany on October 19-21.
The main topics will be Galileo system and segment technology, status and interoperability of the GNSSes and augmentation systems, GNSS integration with communications and other terrestrial systems and GIS, developments in navigation instruments, transport and mobility and more.
Paper abstracts must be submitted by April 16 2010. Peter Vörsman, DGON, is the program committee chair.
By Inside GNSS
"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: The Beginning of a New Age" is the theme of the 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.
In addition to multi-GNSS issues, the event will focus on signal design, signal processing, GNSS payload technology effects and integration of navigation technologies with communication services.
The European Space Agency event will be held from December 8 to 10, 2010 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
By Inside GNSS
IET Headquarters, LondonThe Institution of Engineering and Technology’s April seminar on Galileo and GNSS includes what organizers call a "rare chance" to hear the UK government’s point of view on key challenges and funding of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system over the next twelve months.
By Inside GNSS
