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March 7, 2010

Downloadable GPS — Who’d Have Imagined?

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The S-Bahn from Munich’s airport rolls through the frigid Bavarian fields and suburbs toward the main train station — my jumping off spot for the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.

On its front page, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper laments the return of winter to Germany just as the crocuses had managed to push their heads through the frozen earth, and on our night-time approach to the airport the lighted villages amid the snowy landscape evoke thoughts of Christmas more than Easter.

But enough with the weather report.

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March 6, 2010

Munich SatNav Summit 2010: Did we get it right last year?

Inside GNSS editor Glen Gibbons in the Bavarian Alps

I’m on my way, with Inside GNSS Business Development Director Richard Fischer, to the 8th Munich Satellite Navigation Summit in Germany — the big one for European GNSS politics and program updates.

While we’re in the air, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s conference to see if the GNSS operator predictions matched the results (To keep me honest – here’s my March 6 online news report from the 2009 Munich Summit.)

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March 4, 2010

Royal Institute of Navigation: UAV NAV Symposium

RIN sponsors a one-day symposium and industry exhibition on unmanned aerial vehicles, "Navigating Alone." It will be held at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London on May 26, 2010.

The event will cover a number of navigation-related topics concerning the design and operation of UAVs, including: Mission planning, Remote control, Autonomous control, Navigation sensors and integration, Terrain mapping, Legislation and safety.

The symposium includes formal discussions and time for informal networking.

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Peter Chapman-Andrews New Director of Royal Institute of Navigation

Capt. Peter Chapman-Andrews

Peter Chapman-Andrews replaced David Broughton as director of Britain’s Royal Institute of Navigation in January. He will be the fourth director since RIN was founded in 1947.

Chapman is a graduate of Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He served as Queen’s Harbor Master, Portsmouth, and as fleet navigation officer on the staff of CinC fleet. He also served as aircraft director officer, principal warfare officer, navigation officer and ship’s commander during his career in the Royal Navy. He retired in 2004 with the rank of captain.

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March 2, 2010

GPS Jamming and Interference Sparks UK Concerns, Technical Solutions

Prof. David Last at DSKTN symposium

The noise floor seems to be rising on the subject of GNSS vulnerability to jamming and interference. Recently, the United Kingdom provided the locus for a trio of initiatives that reflect growing anxieties about the widespread global dependence of critical position, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications and infrastructures on the low-power signals from space.

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March 1, 2010

MELAHA 2010 – Arab Institute of Navigation

"Location Technologies and Solutions: The Next Frontier" is the theme of the 2010 Arab Institute of Navigation Conference and Exhibition, MELAHA.

It will take place at the historic Mena House Oberoi Hotel in Cairo, Egypt on May 3-5.

The conference topics are:

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International LIDAR Mapping Forum (IMLF) 2010

The ILMF celebrates its tenth anniversary this year at the Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado on March 3-5.

This technical conference and exhibition will feature 30 papers, including two on how Light Detection and Ranging technology is being used in Haiti to assess damage from the recent earthquake and also the probability of future earthquakes.

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February 28, 2010

Introducing the editor’s blog: Director’s Cut

IN THE BEGINNING (Timation satellite drawing c.1964 – NRL/NCST)

I’m inaugurating my new blog, Director’s Cut, at the 2010 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.

Hope you’ll join me there!

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February 24, 2010

2010 Space Weather Workshop

The annual Space Weather Workshop will take place at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, Colorado on April 27-30 2010. The registration deadline is April 2.

The program highlights space weather impacts in several areas, including communications, navigation, spacecraft operations, aviation, and electric power.

At the 2010 conference, discussions of GNSS impacts will take place all morning right after the opening remarks on Tuesday, April 27.

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2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

The theme of the 2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS is "At a Turning Point." It will take place at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan on October 26-28.

National Cheng Kung University is organizing and hosting the event. The symposium will be held in English.

The annual forum is open to innovative ideas on GNSS systems, techniques, applications and opportunities by researchers and engineers from academia and industry.

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February 11, 2010

NASA’s New Solar Observatory May Lead to Better Forecasting of Space Weather Events

Diagram of solar flare effects (NOAA)

An Atlas 5 rocket sent NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) up on February 11 on an $850 million, five-year mission to find out more about the sun’s magnetic field activity and space weather and, hopefully, to improve forecasting enough to make it possible to safeguard GPS and other technologies.

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February 10, 2010

Oceanology International 2010

Oceanography International 2010 will take place at ExCel London conference center in the city’s Docklands area on March 9-11.

The free biennial technical conference and trade exhibition covers all aspects of marine science and ocean technology and attracts 6600 visitors and 500 exhibitors from 89 countries.

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February 9, 2010