GLONASS-enabled phone by March 2011 China experiencing boom in LBS market Mobile GIS for renewable energy HP Navigator on Spime’s Hybrid LBS platform Wi-Fi will outstrip other location technologies Wi-Fi will outstrip other location technologies

Taiwanese technology reads damaged GPS chips Glonass-K launch postponed to next year Big blow to Russian navigation satellite system Two satellites join GLONASS China prepares for 7th Compass/BeiDou-2 Launch Scientists using high precision location data in epidemiology High-tech tracking of infra development in Bihar, India GPS tracking of criminals taking off in Nepal

Vietnam, India ink deal to deploy GIS technologies Monitoring woodpeckers USD 140 million order for substations deploying GIS Brunei now in 3D Singapore rolls out marine biodiversity survey Bentley to join consortium for clean energy France’s national mapping agency selects Intermap OS working on Olympic site map accuracy Shoreline maps of Gujarat and Puducherry released Indian archaeologists discover rehistoric maps NSDI 10: National Geospatial Ecosystem – The Road Ahead

Galileo Control Centre in Italy starts operation
Prague to be Galileo’s headquarters
All hands on deck for European space push

A Study on GPS/DR Car Navigation System using Vehicle Movement Information

Jong-Hwa Song and Gyu-In Jee

Modernizing the Indian Airspace

Suresh V Kibe

From Galileo to Multisystem: Evolution of Integrity concept

Giovanni Dore and Mario Calamia

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

Contract signing gives Galileo system its operators
ESA signed a contract with Spaceopal, the company providing ground-based services
needed to operate the Galileo constellation once it has been fully deployed. The
agreement was signed by Rene Oosterlinck, ESA’s Director of the Galileo Programme
and Navigation-related activities, …

February 2011

ILMF 2011

7 – 9 February2011

New Orleans, LO, USA

www.lidarmap.org/ILMF.aspx

16 International Geodatic Week

13- 19 February 2011

Obergurgl, Austria

www.geodaesie.uibk.ac.at/obergurgl.html

March 2011

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2011

1-3 March

Munich, Germany

www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org

GEOFORM-2011

15-18 March

Moscow, EcoCentre Sokolniki

www.geoexpo.ru/defaulteng.stm

April 2011

6th National GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia

24-26 April

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

www.saudigis.org

Geo- Siberia 2011

27-29 April

Novosibirsk, Russia

www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru/eng/

May 2011

ASPRS 2011

1 – 5 May

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

www.asprs.org/milwaukee2011/

Gi4DM 2011

3 – 8 May

Istanbul, Turkey

www.gi4dm.org

June 2011

Trans …

Giovanni Dore, Mario Calamia
The integrity concept, intended as a continuous control of the information broadcast by the satellites, has been introduced by the Galileo system. Though the RAIM technique represents the first example of integrity monitoring, it has the characteristic to detect only local errors, at receiver level. The integrity monitoring applied by EGNOS, instead, could be seen as the forerunner of the Galileo one. Though there are many differences in the definition of integrity of the two system, the main aim is the same for both, that is to protect the user…

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

3rd Generation RTK S760 by SOUTH
SOUTH has released the 3rd generation RTK product, S760. A single rugged unit, independent to any external device, has integrated antenna, mainboard and PDA all together, which is an ideal high precision handheld GIS data collector in …

INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE

All JAVAD GNSS receivers track QZSS Satellite
JAVAD GNSS engineers in Moscow tracked Japan’s first QZSS satellite and its new L1C signal. The C/A, L2C, L5, SAIF and the new L1C signals were collected when QZSS-1 satellite was visible in Moscow. QZSS is …