Join us for a webinar on how PNT is enabling LEO and enabled by, the commercialization of space. Wednesday, December 14, 2022 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST. Register Here.

Existing positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems were designed for terrestrial use but can operate in space as well. Experts will look at how GNSS positioning in space is similar to and different from terrestrial positioning, as well as what RF signals in space are used for PNT, such as from medium Earth orbit (MEO) and geostationary constellations.

What you will learn:

• The effects of orbital height on the space vehicles and transmitter power
• Considerations for frequency selection
• Potential roles for 5G “base stations” in space
• Specific challenges of using GNSS for positioning in space

MEO and LEO constellations can complement each other for PNT and other services and the growing number of receivers orbiting the Earth can lead to new opportunities even beyond positioning, while overcoming the technical challenges of operating in a harsh and increasingly crowded space environment.

The panelists:

Stig Pedersen, Vice President and General Manager of Antcom at Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division

Stig Pedersen has over 30 years of experience in the GNSS industry. Since 2019 he been General Manager of Antcom, a subsidiary of Hexagon specializing in the development and manufacture of antennas, notably for the Defense, Air and Space sectors. Stig’s experience spans across the Consumer and Professional GNSS sectors. Early in his career while at Magellan he was on the team that developed the first sub-$500 handheld receivers, the Meridian and the Trailblazer. As GIS Business Director, Stig helped launch Leica’s first GIS product line.

Sandy Kennedy, Vice President of Innovation for Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division

Sandy Kennedy is vice president of innovation at Hexagon’s Autonomy and Positioning division. She is responsible for directing applied research activities to support the vision of: Autonomy and Positioning – Assured. Drawn to the University of Calgary for its geomatics engineering program (and proximity to good ski hills), she completed both her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees there, in 2000 and 2002 respectively. She has spent a fascinating 17 years in R&D at NovAtel and A&P, developing leading edge positioning technology and working with a diverse, global customer base. Her experience includes GNSS/INS integrated systems, GNSS receiver design with an emphasis on both precision and resilience, and precise multi-frequency multi-constellation positioning.

Logan Scott, GNSS/GPS Expert

Logan Scott is an expert consultant in systems/signal processing in advanced RF systems including GPS, RFID, navigation, communications, radar, and emitter location systems. A Fellow of the Institute of Navigation and holder of 46 US patents, he is the inventor of the delayed key concept used in the Chips Message Robust Authentication (CHIMERA) signal for navigation-signal authentication. For the last several years he has been active in signal designs for the NTS-3 program and others.

Webinar sponsored by Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division.

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In a July 25 Webinar and Virtual Workshop: “Beyond GNSS: A System of Systems. Testing Solutions for Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics,” these topics were covered aggressively by a top-notch panel featuring Dr. Chaminda Basnayake, Curtis Hay, Matthew Spenko and Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, who serves as the moderator for this 90-minute event.

This FREE Web Seminar, sponsored by Spirent along with Inside GNSS and Inside Unmanned Systems, is now available for on-demand viewing by clicking here.

When it comes to the robotics side, Spenko, an associate professor in the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is a leading authority. In the webinar Spenko covers in great deal areas that include mobile robot safety, overall safety risks for driverless cars, path planning, navigation and whether safety can be proved experimentally.

You won’t want to miss what he has to say about adopting aviation safety methods to terrestrial robots. Noting that racking up required millions of miles of experimental test driving of autonomous vehicles without ever being able to change an algorithm or sensor is not very practical, Spenko’s work includes mixing in some of what the aviation industry uses for safety measures.

“In order to improve this (test driving driving) experimentally, every time you make a change with your algorithm or your sensor, you have to start this clock over again,” he said, noting that companies like Waymo have reached some impressive mileage milestones with autonomous testing. “But it’s just not practical. What we’re doing is we’re taking inspiration from the aviation industry and we’re looking to guarantee integrity, which is a measure of trust in the sensor’s information. This is an analytical approach as opposed to an experimental approach.”

Watch the webinar on-demand for plenty more good insight from Spenko and the rest of the panelists. More than 350 attendees registered for the July 25 event representing 47 different countries.

Gebre-Egziabher, who is a faculty member of the aerospace engineering & mechanics department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is a veteran moderator of Inside GNSS/Inside Unmanned Systems webinars and does another great job this time around. His research deals with the use of GNSS in transportation applications and the design of multi-sensor navigation and attitude determination systems for aerospace vehicles, and he helped lead spirited Q&A sessions during the live event as audience members posed several interesting questions to the panel of experts.

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Our informational webinar, “Security Risks with Commercial Drones — What’s the Latest in Detection and Mitigation?”, is sponsored by Rohde & Schwarz and presented by Inside GNSS and Inside Unmanned Systems. It is now available for free viewing on-demand 24/7.

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Our informational webinar, “Security Risks with Commercial Drones — What’s the Latest in Detection and Mitigation?”, is sponsored by Rohde & Schwarz and presented by Inside GNSS and Inside Unmanned Systems. It is now available for free viewing on-demand 24/7.

The webinar panel of experts addresses how commercial drones represent a serious security risk to major public events and sensitive infrastructures and facilities such as industrial testing grounds, large industrial plants, critical infrastructure, military and even correctional facilities.

Our panel of experts for this event:

• Goetz Mayser, Director C-UAV Detection and Counter Solutions, Rohde & Schwarz

• Ross Lamm, Managing Partner, Black Sage Technologies

• David A. Romero, Managing Partner, Black Sage Technologies

Moderator: James Poss, Maj Gen (Ret), CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber warfare consulting firm.

You may download a PDF of the webinar slides here:

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Additionally, you can learn more by downloading the whitepaper “Protecting the Sky”:
www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/campaigns/ardronis-learning-center_231049.html

Panelists

James Poss, Maj Gen (Ret) is the CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber warfare consulting firm. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), the FAA’s center of excellence for unmanned research. He is a 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran with combat experience in four wars and was the Air Force’s senior career intelligence officer at his transition from active service in March 2013. He is a leading expert on UAS having helped designed the U.S. Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control and the Distributed Common Ground Station for UAS intelligence analysis. Gen. Poss also has extensive experience in cyber operations from his assignments with the National Security Agency and as the Air Force lead for stand up of U.S. Cyber Command. He is the 2012 winner of Aviation Weeks’ Curtis Sword Award for his leadership in Anglo-American aerospace relations.

Goetz Mayser is Director of C-UAV detection and counter solutions working for Rohde & Schwarz in the headquarters in Munich, Germany. Goetz is responsible for the international counter UAV business of Rohde & Schwarz. Before that he held several positions as product and project manager in the secure communications division of Rohde & Schwarz. Goetz studied electronics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Ross Lamm – Managing Partner. Ross obtained his Ph.D in Image Processing and Machine Vision from UC Davis in 2000. He develops products and solutions that include long range video tracking as well as gyro-stabilization and radar slewing of camera systems. His solutions have been used for long range surveillance in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Jordan and Washington D.C.

David Romero – Managing Partner.  Dave is a managing partner at Black Sage, a defense company solving time sensitive problems relating to national security and terrorism. He is a futurist who bridges skills in high tech with business strategy; and is a champion for technology vision and quality. Prior to shifting effort full time to developing Black Sage in 2014, he operated an international data science company deploying predictive analytics systems to aid governments in data driven policy making. Dave has been referenced in Associated Press, IEEE Spectrum and Janes Defence on Counter – Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and in a Wired Magazine feature story on methods for stopping drone terrorism. In addition to work in national security, Dave is passionate about cultural diplomacy and served as an emissary in India for Rotary International. He’s lived in South America, Oceania and Southeast Asia and motorcycled tens of thousands of miles on foreign backcountry roads.

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The webinar will begin at 10 a.m. PT, 11 a.m. MT, Noon CT, 1 p.m. ET and18:00 UTC.

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Join Inside Unmanned Systems and Rohde & Schwarz for a free 90-minute web seminar on Thursday, November 16, 2017.

The webinar will begin at 10 a.m. PT, 11 a.m. MT, Noon CT, 1 p.m. ET and18:00 UTC.

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Commercial drones represent a serious security risk to major public events, but also to sensitive infrastructures and facilities such as industrial testing grounds, large industrial plants, critical infrastructure, military and even correctional facilities. Of particular risk is the unauthorized use of micro unmanned air vehicles (MAVs) for espionage, provocation or even criminal and terrorist purposes.

How serious is this threat? What are the current range of detection and mitigation techniques?
Join us on Thursday, November 16 at 1:00 PM EST when our panel of experts will address the current state of the science in Drone Defense in a FREE web seminar sponsored by Rohde & Schwarz.

The learning objectives of the webinar include:
• Provide awareness and understanding to the possible threats posed by MAV’s
• Create awareness around the need for a multi-sensor approach to effectively detect and defeat threats
• Solicit feedback on customer awareness, perception, and priorities when considering these threats

Our panel of experts for this exciting event are Ross Lamm, Co-Founder, Black Sage Technologies; Goetz Mayser, Director C-UAV Detection and Counter Solutions, Rohde & Schwarz, Inc.; and David A. Romero, Managing Partner, Black Sage Technologies.
The webinar moderator will be General Jim Poss, CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber consulting firm. During the live event, audience members will have the opportunity to pose their own questions to the panel of experts.
Richard Fischer, Publisher /Inside Unmanned Systems

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Panelists
David A. Romero is a managing partner at Black Sage, a defense company solving time sensitive problems relating to national security and terrorism. He is a futurist who bridges skills in high tech with business strategy; and is a champion for technology vision and quality. Prior to shifting his efforts full time to developing Black Sage in 2014, he operated an international data science company deploying predictive analytics systems to aid governments in data driven policy making. Dave has been referenced in Associated Press, IEEE Spectrum and Janes Defence on Counter – Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and in a Wired Magazine feature story on methods for stopping drone terrorism. In addition to work in national security, Dave is passionate about cultural diplomacy and served as an emissary in India for Rotary International. He’s lived in South America, Oceania and Southeast Asia and motorcycled tens of thousands of miles on foreign backcountry roads.

Ross D. Lamm, Ph.D, managing partner, obtained his Ph.D in Image Processing and Machine Vision from UC Davis in 2000. He develops products and solutions that include long range video tracking as well as gyro-stabilization and radar slewing of camera systems. His solutions have been used for long range surveillance in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Jordan and Washington D.C.

Moderator
James Poss, Maj Gen (Ret) is the CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber warfare consulting firm. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), the FAA’s center of excellence for unmanned research. He is a 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran with combat experience in four wars and was the Air Force’s senior career intelligence officer at his transition from active service in March 2013. He is a leading expert on UAS having helped designed the U.S. Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control and the Distributed Common Ground Station for UAS intelligence analysis. Gen Poss also has extensive experience in cyber operations from his assignments with the National Security Agency and as the Air Force lead for stand up of U.S. Cyber Command. He is the 2012 winner of Aviation Weeks’ Curtis Sword Award for his leadership in Anglo-American aerospace relations.

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The integration of GNSS and inertial sensors in an aided-inertial navigation system (A-INS) for direct georeferencing (DG) has become a powerful standard for high-accuracy airborne and mobile mapping. Combining DG with light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology small and light enough to fit onto a UAS is a breakthrough that brings with it many benefits.

This webinar has taken place. A recorded version is available for on-demand viewing free here.

The integration of GNSS and inertial sensors in an aided-inertial navigation system (A-INS) for direct georeferencing (DG) has become a powerful standard for high-accuracy airborne and mobile mapping. Combining DG with light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology small and light enough to fit onto a UAS is a breakthrough that brings with it many benefits.

Our panel of experts addressed the state of the art and science in direct georeferencing and LiDAR in a web seminar sponsored by Applanix. 

Our panel of experts for this exciting event is Lewis Graham, President and Chief Technical Officer of GeoCue Group; James Van Rens, CEO of Riegl USA, and Pierre Chaponniere, an application engineer at YellowScan. 
The webinar moderator will be James Poss, Maj Gen (Ret), CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber warfare consulting firm.
During the live event, audience members will have the opportunity to pose their own questions to the panel of experts.

You may download a PDF of the webinar slides here:

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You may view a recorded version of the webinar presentation at the link below. (If you have not registered yet, you will need to do so in order to view the recording.)

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Panelists

Lewis Graham is the President and Chief Technical Officer of GeoCue Group, a group of companies who specialize in LiDAR tools and consulting, sensor processing workflow management, point cloud exploitation and small UAS mapping systems. Lewis is a member of the LAS (Point Cloud format) Working Group of ASPRS and a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He is a board member of the M&S division of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGS) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Foundation. He is the 2017 winner of the ASPRS Fairchild Photogrammetry award. Lewis holds degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

James Van Rens is the CEO of Riegl USA, the North American distributor of RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems, who is recognized as the performance leader in the mobile mapping, civil infrastructure, airborne scanning, unmanned, hydrographic, bathymetric, mining and terrestrial based industries. Van Rens holds a combination BA/BS degree from Marquette University and has more than 30 years of experience in remote sensing, 3D mapping, and LiDAR technology. He is an industry leader in 3D mapping techniques and their applications and lectures extensively to professional and lay audiences alike.

Pierre Chaponniere is an application engineer at YellowScan (France). He brings more than 10 years of hands-on field experience dealing with geospatial information in the mineral sector. Having previously worked for consultancy and explorers across Africa, he is familiar with the end-user requirements of remote sensing datasets and more specifically LiDAR products. His skills include GIS systems, ground surveying, 3D modeling, project management and assessment and more recently LiDAR processing. At YellowScan, Pierre looks at support & training, marketing and LiDAR data pre & post processing. He is at the interface between the technical team and the YellowScan user community. Pierre graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy where he validated his last year at the Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg. He recently completed a remote sensing & GIS Advanced Master from AgroParisTech (Mastère SILAT).

Moderator

James Poss, Maj Gen (Ret) is the CEO of ISR Ideas, an intelligence, unmanned aerial systems and cyber warfare consulting firm. He is the founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), the FAA’s center of excellence for unmanned research. He is a 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran with combat experience in four wars and was the Air Force’s senior career intelligence officer at his transition from active service in March 2013. He is a leading expert on UAS having helped designed the U.S. Air Force’s remote split operations system for UAS control and the Distributed Common Ground Station for UAS intelligence analysis. Gen. Poss also has extensive experience in cyber operations from his assignments with the National Security Agency and as the Air Force lead for stand up of U.S. Cyber Command. He is the 2012 winner of Aviation Weeks’ Curtis Sword Award for his leadership in Anglo-American aerospace relations.

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Find out what’s in store for the international community of GNSS manufacturers, application markets and end users at a free web seminar sponsored by Inside GNSS and NovAtel on Monday, December 19.

Panelists include a long-time leader in Europe’s GNSS user equipment industry and senior technical and policy experts from the three organizations responsible for creation of the Galileo GNSS and the rollout of its services.

Right now, Galileo will offer the Open Service, Public Regulated Service (PRS), and Search and Rescue Service (SAR). All mass-market devices containing a Galileo-enabled chipset, such as smartphones and vehicle navigation devices, will be able to use Galileo signals. Until the full satellite constellation and ground infrastructure are in place in 2020, however, Galileo will be used in combination with GPS.

The panelists at next week’s webinar are Jérémie Godet, head of sector for Galileo Implementation at the European Commission; Marco Lisi, GNSS services engineering manager at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Directorate of Galileo Program and Navigation Related Activities; Fiammetta Diani, deputy head of market development at the European GNSS Agency (GSA); and Peter Grognard, CEO of Thales Alenia Space
Belgium.

The moderator will be Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, an associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities, USA.

The live webinar will take place on Monday, December 19 at 1pm-2:30pm ET / 10am-11:30am PT / 7pm-8:30pm CET (central European time). A recorded version will be available a few days later. Both are free with registration. Sign up here.

Galileo satellites in orbit (OHB artist’s rendering)

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Europe’s satellite navigation system, Galileo, is about to launch its initial services by the end of this year — find out what’s in store for the international community of GNSS manufacturers, application markets and end users at this web seminar sponsored by Inside GNSS and NovAtel.

This webinar has taken place. A recorded version is available now to those who register.

Europe’s satellite navigation system, Galileo, is about to launch its initial services by the end of this year — find out what’s in store for the international community of GNSS manufacturers, application markets and end users at this web seminar sponsored by Inside GNSS and NovAtel.

Panelists include a long-time leader in Europe’s GNSS user equipment industry and technical and policy experts from the three organizations responsible for creation of the Galileo GNSS and the rollout of its services. 

Download the webinar presentation slides here.

PANELISTS
Jérémie Godet is head of sector for Galileo Implementation at the European Commission. Previously he served as head of the Security Department at the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and as the European Commission’s Security, Signal and Frequencies team leader on the Galileo Program. Godet was the chairman of the Galileo Signal Task Force. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne (Télécom Bretagne, France) and received an M.S. degree from the International Space University.

Marco Lisi serves as the GNSS services engineering manager at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Directorate of Galileo Program and Navigation Related Activities. In this position he is responsible for the engineering and exploitation of services based on the European navigation infrastructures, Galileo and EGNOS, also advises the executive director of the European GNSS Agency (GSA). After getting a doctorate in engineering (summa cum laude) at the University of Rome, he worked for more than 30 years in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors, covering managerial positions in R&D, engineering, and programs, both in industry and in institutional organizations.

Fiammetta Diani is deputy head of market development at the European GNSS Agency (GSA) where she has worked since 2009. Before joining the GSA, she worked in the private sector for more than 10 years, in both the aerospace and information technology industries, gaining extensive experience in applications of space-based technologies for the transport sector. Diani holds a Master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a post-graduate master in economics and business administration of governmental and not-for-profit organizations from University of Ferrara, in Italy

Peter Grognard is the CEO of Thales Alenia Space Leuven, Belgium. In 2000, he founded Septentrio Navigation, a designer and manufacturer of GNSS receivers based in Leuven, Belgium, and served as its CEO until 2014. From 1994 to 1998 Grognard was the science and technology counselor for the Embassy of Belgium to the United States. He received an M.S. in computer science and a M.S. degree in engineering and applied physics from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and an M.S. in aeronautics from Caltech.

MODERATOR

Demoz Gebre-Egziabher is on the faculty of aerospace engineering & mechanics department at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA where teaches and conducts PNT-related research. His research deals with the use of GNSS in transportation applications and the design of multi-sensor navigation and attitude determination systems for aerospace vehicles. He hold a Ph.D in aeronautics & astronautics from Stanford University.

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Sponsored by NovAtel, this free technical webinar addressed safety standards for positioning autonomous cars, using lessons from civil aviation.

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Sponsored by NovAtel, this free technical webinar addressed safety standards for positioning autonomous cars, using lessons from civil aviation.

The panel of engineering experts from industry and academia discussed the effort to develop new standards that meet requirements for integrity (reliability of positioning information).

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PANELISTS:

MATHIEU JOERGER. Assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, University of Arizona

CHAMINDA BASNAYAKE, Principal Engineer for V2X Systems,Renesas Electronics

JONATHAN AULD, Director of Safety Critical Systems, NovAtel Inc.

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This webinar was presented on Thursday, April 7, 2016, as Inside GNSS continued its series of web seminars focusing on the rapidly expanding field unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a webinar sponsored by Applanix Corporation.

The recent adoption of UAVs for airborne mapping applications promises to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of collecting geospatial data and images for a broad range of applications.

This webinar was presented on Thursday, April 7, 2016, as Inside GNSS continued its series of web seminars focusing on the rapidly expanding field unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a webinar sponsored by Applanix Corporation.

The recent adoption of UAVs for airborne mapping applications promises to greatly reduce the cost and complexity of collecting geospatial data and images for a broad range of applications.

In this 90-minute webinar, our panelists discussed the underlying concepts of georeferencing of UAV data using different methods and with practical examples from real-world UAV projects, a new UAV-based system for hyperspectral imaging, and direct georeferencing techniques using a multirotor UAV platform.

Our panelists were Trond Løke, chief technology officer for Norsk Elektro Optikk AS a Norwegian developer of high-end hyperspectral imaging systems for lab, field, and airborne applications; Mike Hogan, business development manager for Avyon, a North American–based company that provides professional unmanned aerial systems (USA) for industrial applications; and Dr. Mohamed MR Mostafa, a Canadian company that provides geospatial engineering and construction engineering services.

Our moderator was Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.

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Panelists

Mike Hogan, business development manager for Avyon, a North American based company that provides professional unmanned aerial systems for industrial applications. Prior to joining Avyon, he was a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for 22 years where he was employed as an airfield, geomatics, and intelligence officer. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from the Royal Military College of Canada and Master of Engineering (geodesy and geomatics) from the University of New Brunswick.

Trond Løke holds a Master of Technology in the field of photonics and a Master’s thesis in hyperspectral imaging from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He started working at Norsk Elektro Optikk AS (NEO) as a research scientist in 2003, later became senior research scientist, and is currently the chief technology officer of the hyperspectral group. At NEO he has worked continuously with all aspects of hyperspectral imaging systems development (optics, electronics, software, simulations, calibration, and applications) all the way from concept studies through prototypes to products.

Mohamed M.R. Mostafa, president & chief technology officer of Navmatica Corporation, has 17 years of industry experience in the field of Geomatics Engineering. He served as the vice-president of the ISPRS Commission I on Sensors and Platforms (2008-2012). Additionally, Dr. Mostafa served as the chair of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing direct Georeferencing Committee from 2001 to 2010. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in geomatics engineering from The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Moderator

Demoz Gebre-Egziabher is an associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. His research deals with the design of multi-sensor navigation and attitude determination systems for aerospace vehicles. Recently his work has focused on multi-sensor solutions for operations in GNSS-stressed and -denied environments.

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On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Inside GNSS, Inside Unmanned Systems, and u-Blox AG presented a free 90-minute web seminar continuing our exploration of GNSS positioning, navigation, and guidance for UAVs.

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On Wednesday, February 24, 2016, Inside GNSS, Inside Unmanned Systems, and u-Blox AG presented a free 90-minute web seminar continuing our exploration of GNSS positioning, navigation, and guidance for UAVs.

Improvements in technology and regulatory environment are stimulating the expanded use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a widening range of applications. Now the capability of airborne platforms to deliver higher accuracy performance can meet ever-more-demanding requirements of users.

Building on our previous webinars, our panel of experts provided an introduction to real-time kinematic (RTK) and post-processed kinematic (PPK) positioning followed by presentations of real-world applications and benefits for UAV operations.

Our panel discussed use cases including high-fidelity modeling of vehicle motion, railway and pipeline mapping, and environmental monitoring. Audience members will have the opportunity to participate in real-time question and answer periods with the panel members.

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Panelists

Bastien Mancini, director general of Delair-Tech SAS, began his career at CNES (the French Space Agency), in charge of the trajectography and flight safety systems for the Ariane rocket and later oversaw the the qualification of the Soyouz launchpad in French Guiana. Educated at l’École polytechnique, he founded Delair-Tech, a French manufacturer of long-range UAVs, sensors, and ground control stations,
with three colleagues in 2011. The company has since grown to include 50 employees and provides UAV-based services worldwide.

François Gervaix, product manager – survey for SenseFly, a Swiss company that develops and manufactures aerial imaging drones for professional applications, is a qualified geomatics engineer. He has worked for Leica Geosystems and as a professor at the Technical University for Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO). In 2010 he launched project R-Pod, Photogrammetry on Demand, before founding Easy2map, a UAV-based photogrammetry service provider, in 2012. Since 2011 he has also served as president of the Swiss Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Steve Waslander, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he was a control systems analyst for Pratt & Whitney. He is the Director of the Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory (WAVELab). His research interests are in the areas of autonomous aerial and ground vehicles, simultaneous localization and mapping, nonlinear estimation and control, and multi-vehicle systems. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in aeronautics and astronautics.

Moderator

Demoz Gebre-Egziabher is an associate professor of aerospace engineering and mechanics at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. His research deals with the design of mutlti-sensor navigation and attitude determination systems for aerospace vehicles. Recently his work has focused on multi-sensor solutions for operations in GNSS-stressed and -denied environments.

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