Vol. VI Issue 6, June 2010
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PND vs mobile Is landscape shifting?
Tomas Miranda, Gary Gale, Roger Jollis, Caroline Chow, Dominique Bonte, Andre Malm, Rohan Verma
GPS integrated with inertial sensors in mobile phones becomes a
reality
Pavel Davidson, Jani Hautamaki, Jussi Collin and Jarmo Takala
Precise Orbit Determination of a
Galileo/GIOVE-A Satellite
Hua Su and Bernd Zimmermann
My Coordinates
EDITORIAL
His Coordinates
François Erceau
News
INDUSTRY …
On the back of recent announcements by Google and Nokia signaling their intentions to provide free turn-by-turn satellite navigation as applications on their smart phone devices, it is more clear than ever that the satellite navigation industry is on the brink of experiencing drastic changes. Once an industry dominated almost entirely…
Accurate and continuous position computation is a key task for vehicle navigation and telematics applications. In most portable car navigation and telematics devices, the position is determined based only on GPS data. However, in urban canyons stand-alone GPS suffers signal masking and reflections of the signal from buildings, large vehicles, and other reflective surfaces. Driving tests in such metropolises as Hong Kong…
GIOVE-A is a first Galileo test satellite launched on December 28, 2005. The satellite payload transmits two frequency signals at L1+E5 or L1+E6. There are 13 world wide located Galileo Experimental Sensor Stations (GESS) to track and monitor the GIOVE-A signals. High accuracy of GIOVE-A ephemeris or orbit, however, is essential for navigation applications. The paper presents a new method to deal with the precise orbit…
An industry group is attempting to drum up interest in the European Galileo satellite positioning system with a contest featuring £435,000 in prizes. The 2010 Competition looks to kick-start commercial exploitation of the Galileo system and has a large prize pot to get businesses interested. Winners from each country participating in the contest will also be entered for the Galileo Masters Prize, which promises an additional £17,000 to the business with the best idea. www.V3.co.uk
INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE
Extended CAD & GIS Data support in ERDAS APOLLO
ERDAS released ERDAS APOLLO Feature Interoperability, a new product extending ERDAS APOLLO’s native vector support by adding support for additional CAD and GIS formats and tools. It provides access to GIS data formats, including …
INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE
Towards conclusive land titling in India
The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, has prepared a preliminary draft of the Land Titling Bill. The Bill hopes to usher into the country the system of Conclusive Property Titles …
INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE
PBBI launches SaaS-Based solution
Pitney Bowes Business Insight announced MapInfo(R) Stratus(TM), a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based solution for publishing and sharing location-based data and services. It is a Web-based solution that allows customers to push maps and data created in a desktop …
INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE
GPS problems pose security concerns
The most recent upgrade to the GPS ground control segment created an incompatibility issue with a specific type of military GPS receiver used on at least 86 different US weapon systems, some of which cannot be used until …
INDUSTRY | LBS | GPS | GIS | REMOTE SENSING | GALILEO UPDATE
Galileo sat-nav contest gets underway
An industry group is attempting to drum up interest in the European Galileo satellite positioning system with a contest featuring £435,000 in prizes. The 2010 Competition looks to kick-start commercial exploitation of the Galileo system and has a …
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