October 2007

Understanding EGNOS Melanie Vritschan, Umberto Guida, Jon Westbrook  |  Zheng He’s sailing to West Ocean Jin Ding, Chaojian Shi, Adam Weintrit  |  The Global Map Experience Dr Fraser Taylor  |   The Potential of VSOP2 WEI ERHU, LIU JINGNAN, YAN WEI   |  e-Governance A K Jain   |  Newsbit  When Technology Crosses Limits  |  Conference Summer School

   

Will Galileo happen?
 
Eurobarometer opinion survey says that Europeans are extremely positive about the Galileo programme. We sought the opinions of experts. Fingers are firmly crossed. [more]

Testing of location systems using WiFi in indoor environments
GUENTHER RETSCHER, ESMOND MOK
The use of WiFi for location determination has the advantage that no transmitters or receivers have to be installed in the building like in the case of infrared and ultrasonic based location systems . [more]

Unconventional applications with single frequency DGPS
RAJNEESH GUPTA, VIVEK BANSAL AND BRIG M C DHAMIJA (RETD)
Dual frequency DGPS have been beyond the financial reach of many surveyors and many prefer to invest in single frequency DGPS. [more]

Facilitating land-sea interface through seamless SDI
SHEELAN VAEZ, ABBAS RAJABIFARD, IAN P WILLIAMSON
The need to effectively manage the coastal zone as well as the need for interoperable data between the three environments (land, coast, marine) requires a management system that incorporates them all [more]

Michael Shaw
Director of the National Coordination Office for Space- Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), on the availability of GPS signals around the world [more]

Industry news
 
Galileo update
 
Other news

Tele Atlas announces availability of digital map of China

NavCom releases StarControl

Hemisphere GPS introduces Outback S-Lite

MapmyIndia.com 2008 unveiled

Trimble opens manufacturing facility in Shanghai

Magellan® MobileMapper® CX GIS Data Collector

Rockwell Collins unveils GPS receiver for the commercial market

Leica to offer a compliance path to all GNSS systems!


HP Launches New iPAQ PDA Phones

Pitney Bowes creates single software Business Unit

Spirent® enhances global support for its test products

NovAtel Inc. OEMV(TM) Product Line Enhancements
 
Galileo to support global search and rescue

The detection of emergency beacons will be greatly improved by the introduction...[More]

Giove-A test Campaign Completed

The test campaign using the large antenna ... [More]

EC issues Galileo restructuring plan

The proposed revamp was recently submitted to the European Parliament... [More]

EU to sort out Galileo funding issue before talks with India

Differences have cropped up within the EU over the funding of the project... [More]

Galileo's GIOVE-B completes initial testing

Thales Alenia Space is shipping GIOVE-B, from its plant in Rome to ESA-ESTEC facility.. [More]
 
Mobile phones to determine the next catch! [More]

QUALCOMM equips 300 M mobile handsets worldwide with GPS [more]

GIS to fight Dengue epidemic in Bangkok [More]

Production of new navigation systems in Russia [More]

Thai satellite to be launched in November [More]

Applications of GPS in Tamil Nadu, India [More]

Nokia Maps downloaded over 1 million times [more]


DigitalGlobe successfully launches Worldview-1 [more]

India's regional Sat Nav on track [more]

Bush accepts Pentagon position on GPS [more]

Mapping health facilities in India [more]

Urban monitoring initiative in India [more]

Canada’s Government funds $1.6 million in Modern Geography

Need to redirect China's GPS market

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