February 2008
GATE: A boon for Galileo Guenter Heinrichs, Erwin Loehnert, Elmar Wittmann, Roland Kaniuth   |  GAGAN Update  Arjun Singh  |  GNSS 2008: Through a scanner, darkly  John Kelly   |  Galileo is necessary  Dominique Detain   |  Japan: Augmenting navigation  Akio Yasuda  |  Inspiring INSPIRE  Ian Masser   |  Estimates of anomalies in triangular area between GPS stations  Sridevi Jade , Saigeetha A J and Vijayan M S M   |  A strategic approach to improve data sharing  Mansour Ahmadi Foroushani  |  Book Review Abbas Rajabifard  |  
  
GNSS 2008: Through a scanner darkly
Technological milestones in GNSS 2008 [more]
JOHN KELLY
Any look into the crystal ball of future is fraught with caveats, error, and less than perfect clarity. However, certain extrapolations and not-so-wild guesses do exist [more]
 
GATE : A boon to Galileo
GUENTER HEINRICHS, ERWIN LOEHNERT, ELMAR WITTMANN, ROLAND KANIUTH  
It will allow receiver, application and service developers to perform realistic field tests  [more]
GAGAN update
ARJUN SINGH
The user level testing of GAGAN has been completed [more]
Galileo is necessary
DOMINIQUE DETAIN
If GPS is disrupted, EGNOS will warn, but will not be able to continue on its [more]
Japan: Augmenting navigation
AKIO YASUDA
MSAS is convenient to access and is free of charge  [more]
Estimates of Anomalies in Triangular Area between GPS stations
SRIDEVI JADE , SAIGEETHA A J, VIJAYAN M S M
The mega thrust earthquake of Dec 26, 2004 shifted several sites on Indian and Eurasian plates, which has been quantified from various GPS studies. As the relative change in triangular area between different sites is more sensitive than the relative change in their coordinates [more]
GLOBAL Reckoning of Latitude and Longitude
MUNEENDRA KUMAR
This “simple” system, for civil and military will be a truly global approach to use with the GPS surveying [more]
  
The use of GPS technology in consumer, business, and ind-ustrial applications will expand Steve Jobs recently announced that the iPhone will feature Skyhook Wireless Wi-Fi location technology A top Kremlin official has ordered that space exploration be put on the back burner
 
Industry news
  
Galileo update
 
Other news

Leica fieldPro v2.0

iBUS concept by Ashok Leyland

Septentrio tie up with navigation solutions

Solutions for Mechanical, electrical and plumbing by Trimble

Magellan flat-panel device for vehicle navigation

Pitney Bowes MapInfo enhances AnySite Solution

HP integrates with MacDermid ColorSpan

Fugro Aerial Mapping BV

CSR with Samsung to offer lower costs GPS solutions

CARTOSAT-1 data agreement

 
Norwegian PM opens new Antarctic satellite station

The Norwegian satellite station TrollSat is a milestone in satellite surveillance of the environment”, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said [More]

Berlin denies Galileo costs will skyrocket

Berlin officials denied claims that the cost of Galileo, were set to skyrocket [More]

NovAtel to establish Galileo monitoring sites in Canada

NovAtel Inc was recently awarded a contract valued at CDN $667,861 by the Canadian Space Agency to establish sites in Canada to monitor the Galileo GIOVE test satellites [More]

  
PND market in Japan

NOAA to ensure GPS accuracy

Lowcost GPS for fisherman

Israel satellite in orbit

GeoEye launch delayed

China Unicom launches new positioning service

Mio and Qualcomm to develop GPS devices

Nokia eyes GLONASS signals

Mapmyindia and General Motors tie up

Indo-Norwegian pact on developing TOPAZ

ISRO offers free access to RS data in SARC

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