SBAS and RNSS

Japan Awards Contracts for QZSS Space, Ground Segments

Japan Awards Contracts for QZSS Space, Ground Segments

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and NEC Corporation have received contracts to build the spacecraft and ground control system, respectively, for Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).

The Japanese Cabinet Office announced the contract awards last Friday (March 29, 2013).
Mitsubishi will receive ¥50 billion (US$540 million) for building one geostationary satellite and two additional quasi-zenith satellites (QZSs) to join “Michibiki,” the first QZS launched on September 11, 2010.

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By Inside GNSS
GNSS Technologies and Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa Conference

GNSS Technologies and Applications for Sub-Saharan Africa Conference

This new international conference on GNSS technologies and applications for the development of sub-Saharan African countries will take place May 30 and 31 at the new bayside Terrou-Bi hotel and conference center in Dakar, Senegal.

The event targets entrepreneurs and companies from the EU and Africa that use GNSS technologies. The event is designed to showcase and promote African technical competencies with solid potential for success using EGNOS and Galileo services and the space sector in general.

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By Inside GNSS
AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2013
April 1, 2013

AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2013

The 2013 Unmanned Systems North America industry exhibition and symposium sponsored by AUVSI will be held from August 12 -15 at Walter E. Washington convention Center in Washington D.C. The Renaissance Washington is the conference headquarters hotel.

It features technical panels and presentations, workshops and poster sessions on the state of the unmanned systems and robotics markets. The event covers military, civil and commercial applications for air, ground and maritime vehicles.

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By Inside GNSS
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IGNSS 2013: International GNSS Society Symposium

IGNSS 2013: International GNSS Society Symposium

Registration is open for the IGNSS 2013 symposium and industry exhibition. It will take place at the Outrigger Hotel in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from July 16 to 18 during the sunny area’s cool and dry season.

The conference venue is one block from the famous Surfer’s Paradise Beach.

Program topics include GNSS system issues, receivers and signals, policy issues, applications and non-satellite positioning methods.(The deadline for abstract submission has passed)

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Furuno to Launch New Multi-GNSS Receiver Chips, Modules This Summer
March 29, 2013

Furuno to Launch New Multi-GNSS Receiver Chips, Modules This Summer

Furuno Electric Company has announced that new multi-GNSS receiver chips eRideOPUS 6 and eRideOPUS 7 — with active anti-jamming, multipath mitigation, and dead reckoning interfaces — will be available to the market beginning August 2013.

The eRideOPUS 7 receiver chip can process GPS and GLONASS signals (with a combined antenna), satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) transmissions, Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), and — with a software update —Galileo signals. The eRideOPUS 6 is not GLONASS-capable.

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ICL-GNSS 2013: Localization and GNSS Conference
March 26, 2013

ICL-GNSS 2013: Localization and GNSS Conference

NH Santo Stefano Hotel

The 2013 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 at the NH Santo Stefano hotel in downtown Torino, Italy.

ICL-GNSS 2013 will address the latest research on satellite-based and complementary positioning techniques for use outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.

The emphasis is on GNSS receiver design, related signal processing methods and leading-edge technologies.

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GNSS Hotspots | March 2013
March 25, 2013

GNSS Hotspots | March 2013

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

1. LATE LAUNCHES
Cape Canaveral and Plesetsk
√ [updated April 1] After three delays, a single GLONASS-M satellite will go up from Plesetsk space center on April 26. The United States will send up SVN66, the fourth GPSIIF satellite— on an Atlas V launcher for the first time—during the early evening of May 15. It had been delayed from March.

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COCESNA: Technical and Operational Workshop on GNSS
March 20, 2013

COCESNA: Technical and Operational Workshop on GNSS

This practical workshop targets professionals in the aviation sector and others interested in GNSS. It will take place on May 6 and 7 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

It is sponsored by the Central America Organization for Aerial
Navigation Services and the Galileo Information Center for Latin
America.

The topics are:

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By Inside GNSS
SASGI 2013: SA Surveying + Geomatic Indaba 2013

SASGI 2013: SA Surveying + Geomatic Indaba 2013

SASGI 2013 will take place at the Emperors Palace in Gauteng, South Africa on July 22, 23 and 24. The theme is Geospatial Solutions for National Development Planning.

This is the annual South African conference of surveying, geo-informatics, GIS, mapping, remote sensing and location-based business.

 

The conference is wide-ranging and will cover:

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By Inside GNSS
HxGN Live (formerly Hexagon 2013)

HxGN Live (formerly Hexagon 2013)

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s third international conference this summer.

The event’s new name is HxGN Live, or Hexagon Global Network

It will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino from June 3 through June 6, 2013.

The theme is "Great Stories Start Here" and will include 200 technical and training sessions and an industry exhibition.

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Mike Veth: Engineering Meets the Wild Blue Yonder
March 9, 2013

Mike Veth: Engineering Meets the Wild Blue Yonder

Veth proudly poses with his RV-8A fuselage components securely fastened in a jig. The RV-8A is a two-place, tandem, experimental aircraft that is home-built from kit components. When completed, he plans to use the aircraft as an experimental navigation testbed.

SIDEBAR: Mike Veth’s Compass Points

Over the course of Lt. Col. Michael Veth’s 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force (USAF), certain navigation technologies may have changed dramatically, but working toward increased accuracy has remained a constant.

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The PNT Boom

The PNT Boom

FIGURE 1: Potential components of a multisensor integrated navigation system

The navigation world is booming with new ideas at the moment to meet some of the greatest positioning challenges of our times. To realize demanding applications — such as reliable pedestrian navigation, lane identification, and robustness against interference, jamming and spoofing — we need to bring these different ideas together.

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