Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
ION’s JNC brings industry together to solve PNT challenges
Reliable access to PNT is critical for the warfighter, but that’s becoming more difficult as threats like jamming and spoofing continue to grow.
By Renee Knight
Patricia Helen Doherty, a past ION president and current Satellite Division Chair, passed away on July 14 at the age of 72.
The well-known industry leader worked at Boston College for many years, serving as the director of the Institute for Scientific Research at the time of her passing, according to an In Memoriam article featured on the ION website.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation (ION) announced the recipients of the 2022 Fellow membership during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting held January 25- 27, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Dr. Mark Psiaki with its Johannes Kepler Award during the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2021 Conference. In addition to many other achievements, Psiaki co-authored the Inside GNSS cover story, “TRANSIT on Steroids: Doppler-Based GNSS Meets Large LEO Constellations”
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) announces that the GNSS Software Defined Radio Metadata Standard document has been published in NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation’s Spring 2021 issue, Volume 68, No. 1, pp. 11-20.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation recognized a team of NASA engineers with the Samuel M. Burka award. The award recognized a publication related to NASA’s GPS Antenna Characterization Experiment (GPS ACE).
By Inside GNSS
The Military Division of the Institute of Navigation will host the 2021 Joint Navigation Conference (JNC 2021) for the Departments of Defense and of Homeland Security on August 24–26.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation (ION) announced that its annual ION GNSS+ 2020 conference, scheduled to take place September 21-25, will now be held entirely virtual. InterGeo, the large international trade show held each fall in Germany, has made a similar announcement for its conference, scheduled for October 13–15.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation premier conference, ION GNSS+ 2020, held annually in September, will this year have a virtual option for attendance. It will mirror the technical program presented live, September 21-25 in St. Louis, Missouri, and will give global attendees access to the latest GNSS developments and content. Virtual meeting attendance will be free for all first-time ION GNSS+ attendees.
By Inside GNSS
In three hours over two days, this special virtual workshop and professional learning experience rigorously investigates safety, integrity, standards and testing for precise positioning in automotive, both driven and driverless. It asks — and answers! — these crucial questions:
By Inside GNSS
JNC 2020, the largest U.S. military Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) and GPS conference, has been rescheduled for September 8–11, 2020 at the same two locations near Cincinnati, Ohio.
By Inside GNSS
To gauge the present state of mind of the GNSS and PNT community, the state of play in application development, and the state of the art in positioning, navigation and timing technology, we asked four international experts for their perspectives. Here are the questions posed to them.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Dr. Santiago Perea Diaz with its Bradford W. Parkinson Award at the recent ION GNSS+ Conference in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Perea Diaz was recognized for graduate student excellence in Global Navigation Satellite Systems in his thesis, “Design of an Integrity Support Message for Offline Advanced RAIM”.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Professor Peter Teunissen with its Johannes Kepler Award September 20, 2019 at the ION GNSS+ Conference in Miami, Florida. Prof. Teunissen was recognized for his influential and groundbreaking contributions to the algorithmic foundations of satellite navigation, and for sustained dedication to the global education of the next generation of navigation engineers.
By Inside GNSS
Abstracts are now being accepted for the IEEE/ION Positioning, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2020. The conference will take place April 20-23, 2020 at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon. The deadline for submitting abstracts is October 30, 2019.
By Inside GNSS
