Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The 4th international conference on ERA-GLONASS will take place at the World Trade Center in Moscow, Russia on October 8.
The theme of the conference is "ERA-GLONASS modern technologies for the ensuring of road safety and comfort."
By Inside GNSS
The AfricaGEO 2014 Conference & Exhibition will be held at Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa, from July 1-3 2014. The conference theme is ‘Developing Geomatics for Africa’, with an emphasis on the development of Geomatics (as an industry/technology) in the African context.
A series of plenary and parallel technical sessions as well as panel discussions will be scheduled throughout the three day conference. The official language of the conference will be English.
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The 2014 Spirent Federal GNSS Technical Meeting will be held July 15-16, 2014 at the Double Tree by Hilton in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
Spirent engineers will lead the 1-1/2 day technical meeting, including a half-day of FOUO sessions, on state-of-the-art GNSS simulation equipment.
The general session will be held on July 15-16, FOUO sessions will be held on Wednesday July 16.
Topics include:
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Jusangjeolli CliffThe theme of the joint ISGNSS 2014 and Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, is “Cloud PNT in IoT.” It will be held from October 21 through 24 at the International Convention Center Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea.
Online registration is now available.
Abstracts will be accepted through July 13, 2014 on the following topics:
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City Bowl area of Capetown (photo by Martin Power)Developing geomatics for Africa with a focus on doing business in Africa and African land reform is the theme of this conference, first held in 2011.
The event will take place at The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Capetown, South Africa on July 1, 2 and 3.
The program consists of plenary and technical sessions, panel discussions, educational workshops on surveying, geo-information, remote sensing and aerial imagery.
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The 2015 World Congress of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation will take place at a new venue, the Corinthia Hotel, close to the well-preserved historical center of Prague, Czech Republic, on October 20 – 23, 2015. This will be the 15th meeting of all of the member organzations, who will discuss the science and practice of navigation and related technologies.
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The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Commission are sponsoring the third annual European Space Solutions conference schedule on June 11-13 at the Prague Conference Centre in Prague, Czech Republic.
The three day event targets European business and industry, researchers, European officials and applications developers who will discuss how the
EU’s navigation and Earth observation systems can help solve the real
life challenges of business, communities and citizens.
One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859
1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)
Nouméa ground station after the flood
A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat
Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV
Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)
“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder. 
Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram
Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST
JPL uses GPS to find Sierra Nevada water weight; Near collision of drone and regional jet prompts questions, West Antarctic ice sheet melt at “point of no return,” First Galileo FOC satellites at launch site, China’s GBAS tested in Tianjin
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"Resilience Navigation" is the theme of the 2014 Arab Institute of Navigation Conference and Exhibition, MELAHA. It will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt on September 1-3, 2014.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 30, 2014. Papers should be submitted electronically as a pdf file to the email address listed below.
The conference topics are:
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The European Space Agency (ESA) International Summer School on GNSS 2014 take place July 21–31 on the campus of the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Held in conjunction with the European Commission Joint Research Center’s Summer School on GNSS, the program is open to graduate students (with a first university degree), Ph.D. candidates, early-stage researchers, and young professional seeking to broaden their knowledge.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) International Summer School on GNSS 2014 take place July 21–31 on the campus of the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Held in conjunction with the European Commission Joint Research Center’s Summer School on GNSS, the program is open to graduate students (with a first university degree), Ph.D. candidates, early-stage researchers, and young professional seeking to broaden their knowledge.
By Inside GNSS
SIDEBAR: Michel Monnerat’s Compass Points
“I was born in Arles, in the south of France,” says Michel Monnerat, “but I left France before my first birthday. We moved many times, from place to place.”
Monnerat’s father worked for a civil engineering company, specializing in maritime works — harbor construction, coastal protection, and such. His family lived in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Tunisia, but Monnerat spent most of my early life in Lomé, the capital city of Togo.
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Europe has been talking up its European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS, for short) — and why shouldn’t it? Talking about Galileo doesn’t get satellites off the ground. EGNOS, on the other hand, is up and running, and has been since 2009. If the object is to build confidence in European savoir faire, why not talk about a real success like EGNOS?
By Peter Gutierrez
