September 2007, volumeIII issue 9

Will Galileo happen? Dr Guenter Heinrichs, Miguel Romay Merino, Jim Doherty, F Michael Swiek,Ronald R Hatch  |  Understanding EGNOS Melanie Vritschan, Umberto Guida, Jon Westbrook  |  Unconventional applications with single frequency DGPS Rajneesh Gupta, Vivek Bansal, Brig M C Dhamija (Retd)  |  Zheng He’s sailing to West Ocean Jin Ding, Chaojian Shi, Adam Weintrit  |  The Global Map Experience Dr Fraser Taylor  |   Interview Michael Shaw

   

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]

Zheng He’s sailing to West Ocean
JIN DING, CHAOJIAN SHI AND ADAM WEINTRIT
An important waypoint on passage of navigation history. [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]
 
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

Leica Geosystems introduces GMX902 GG GPS + GLONASS receivern

Tele Atlas announces availability of digital map of China

NavCom releases StarControl

@Road adds real-time GPS to Taskforce 7.5

Magellan launches Triton handheld series


Hemisphere GPS introduces Outback S-Lite

 
Galileo to support global search and rescue

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

EADS, Thales, Finmeccanica in pact on their future Galileo project role

EADS, Thales and Finmeccanica have reached an agreement on sharing responsibilities…[More]

Giove-A test Campaign Completed

The test campaign using the large antenna at Chilbolton Observatory to analyse... [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]

Russia starts serial production of new navigation systems [More]

GSLV-F04 successfully launched [More]

Thai satellite to be launched in November [More]

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