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All-in-one Vehicle Telematics System
Masternaut has launched a new type of vehicle tracking system based around a single intelligent mobile communication unit. It comprises a Mobile Communication Centre combining vehicle tracking, GPS satellite navigation, hands-free mobile communications and real-time job scheduling and messaging …

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Winners of 2010 Be Inspired Awards
Bentley Systems announced the winners of the 2010 Be Inspired Awards and Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving and sustaining the world’s infrastructure. A total of 24 award …

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Air Force rebuts auditor’s concerns about GPS
A report from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the latest GPS satellite was launched almost 3½ years behind schedule, and further delays could leave the system with fewer than the 24 …

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Global Earthquake Model
Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) has selected OpenGeo to support its development of open source earthquake modeling tools. OpenGeo will be developing enhancements for GeoServer and GeoTools to expand the capabilities for collaboration on hazard, risk and socio-economic impact models …

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Norway signs Galileo agreement with Commission
Norway and the European Commission have signed a cooperation agreement on satellite navigation. Norway is an important participant in the Galileo programme: Norwegian industry is involved since the beginning of the programme, two important ground stations are …

Gianluca Falco, Fabrizio Dominici, Gianluca Marucco, Antonio Defina

The integration of navigation and communication functionalities is one of the key elements exploited in new location-based systems and services

GNSS technologies are progressively becoming one of the key elements in most of innovative wireless applications. Most location-based services and systems are in fact …

Global Positioning System (GPS) provides precise timing, position, and velocity information by utilizing the constellation of satellites and a remote receiver that uses range measurements to the satellites and spatial trilateration techniques. In addition, more navigation satellite systems including Russia’s GLONASS, Europe’s Galileo, and PRC’s Compass will be available for the coming years. Those systems will form the mainframe of future Global Navigation Satellite System…

After the euphoria over the successful Chile mine rescue it is time to analyze the incident and ponder on the lessons learned.

Mines and accidents have been intertwined since time immemorial. But the Chile mining accident has become a watershed. Not because of the accident itself – this was no different from the many that have …

says Paul Verhoef Programme Manager, EU satellite navigation programme, European
Commission, Brussels, Belgium while emphasising on the difference between Galileo and
other GNSS systems

What is the status update on Galileo and in what stages will it become operational?
We are currently defining our initial operational capability (IOC) in detail.
Initially some services will be available which will not …

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Compass and Galileo.
Apparently heading for a ‘head on’,
On frequency and signal issues.
In a world of multi GNSS systems,
With different priorities and agendas,
Such differences are inevitable.
But we do need a compatible and interoperable environment.
At the same time, we do live with conflicts and coexist.
Don’t we?

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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