January 2008

GNSS What next? F Michael Swiek, Miguel Angel Martínez Olagüe, Bruce Peetz, Keith D McDonald, Bernhard Richter, Ir. Hans Visser, John Pottle, Thomas Seiler, Sang Jeong Lee   |  Tsunami three years down the line Prem Shanker Goel, Prof Tad S Murty , Rehabiliation and reconstruction Board, Indonesia  |  Location and privacy issues Professor George Cho  |   Galileo Boc(1,1) signal tracking  Deok Won Lim, Chansik Park, Sang Jeong Lee   |  Interview  Prof Chen Jun, Ajay Seth  |   

   

GNSS : What next?
F MICHAEL SWIEK, MIGUEL ANGEL MARTÍNEZ OLAGÜE, BRUCE PEETZ, KEITH D MCDONALD, BERNHARD RICHTER, IR. HANS VISSER, JOHN POTTLE, THOMAS SEILER, SANG JEONG LEE
A discussion on possible milestones on GNSS in year 2008 moderated by Mike Swiek, President US GPS Industry Council [more]

Tsunami three years down the line
A visit to those for whom tsunami is still a possibility, a reality and a challenge… - An interview with Dr P S Goel, Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Earth Sciences
- Tad Murty on Indian ocean tsunami warning system
- A case study by Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Board, Indonesia

Location and privacy issues
PROF GEORGE CHO
The tools of GI Science allow personal information to be collected, manipulated, displayed, and transmitted cheaply, easily and speedily. But its capabilities in information analysis have raised a multitude of novel and interesting personal privacy issues. [more]

  
The Survey of India and Delhi government joined hands together and launched Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure

The PND market in Taiwan is likely to set into the price war due to the import of ultra low price device from China

According to the ABI Research, real time traffic information will reach more than 83 million paid or registered users worldwide by 2012

 
Industry news
 
Galileo update
 
Other news

Nokia N 82 launched in India

Mobile computer with GPS

SiRF creating solution to optimize location awareness

u-blox technology powers Navigon Porsche Design PND

Intermap to supply outdoor map data to Magellan

Hemisphere GPS acquires Steer-by-Wire company

$ 50.7 m contract option with Rockwell Collins

$1.4m fine for Navman

Topcon instruments benefit from GLONAS launch

GPS service by China Mobile
 
Galileo gets the go –ahead

Galileo finally got the go-ahead at the end of November when European nations agreed to build the EUR 3.4 b satellite navigation system [More]

EU lawmakers endorse 08 budget including Galileo funds

EU lawmakers have endorsed the EU’s 2008 budget worth EUR 20.3 billion for Galileo [More]

Galileo signal reflections used for monitoring waves at sea

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and University of Surrey have succeeded in capturing the Galileo signal reflected off the ocean surface in orbit [More]

 
Beidou to be functional by Olympics

Delhi Police gets GPS for better tracking

Australia cricket team to use GPS vests to stay ahead

3 more GLONASS satellites launched

Geography portal by Israel

Nepal-India border mapping

RazakSAT - Better eye in space for Malaysia


Envisat captures crude oil lleak off South Korea

Mobile View by Qualcomm

Satnav collar for Putin’s dog

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