Volume XVI, Issue 1, January 2020
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The Challenges for Resilient PNT in 2020
Guy Buesnel
The consequences of vulnerabilities within autonomous navigation are alarming
Jennifer Edis
Do we need GNSS alternatives, OR, should we protect what we already have?
Graeme Hooper
The case for automotive GNSS cyber security measures
Yoav Zangvil
Global experiences with public private partnerships for land registry services: A critical review
Keith …
The sky is red
As the summer sets in Australia,
The country especially New South Wales,
Is engulfed with bushfires.
Some reports suggest
27 death so far and many lost their homes,
Millions of hectares of land burned,
Half a billion animal affected,
Potentially millions of them died,
One third of koalas killed,
Even some species …
March 2020
Munich Satellite Navigation Summit
16 – 18 March Munich, Germany
www.munich-satellitenavigation-summit.org
10th International Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial & Remote Sensing (IGRSM 2020)
17 -18 March
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://igrsm.org/igrsm2020
Geo Connect Asia 2020
18 – 19 March Singapore
http://www.geoconnectasia.com
Geo Week
March 23-25, Washington, DC
www.geoweek.com, www.lidarmap.org
April 2020
United Nations/Mongolia Workshop
on the Applications of GNSS
13 – 17 April
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
www.www.unoosa.org
SpaceTimeAI 2020
20 – 22 April London, UK
www.ucl.ac.uk/civil-environmentalgeomatic-engineering/
May 2020
China …
MicroSurvey inCAD 2020 released
MicroSurvey announces the release of inCAD 2020. It adds the MicroSurvey feature set to the latest Autodesk® software – including AutoCAD® 2020, AutoCAD Map 3D™ 2020, and AutoCAD Civil 3D™ 2020 – providing users with complete survey drafting and calculation workflows, including COGO, point tools for gridline-based projects, traverse input and …
White Paper promotes European GNSS for safe, reliable UAVs
The European GNSS Agency has published an online White Paper on European Global Navigation Satellite Systems, asserting that use of Galileo and its corrections via the European Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) are essential for the safe and reliable navigation of drones.
The report further states that …
Airbus-built CHEOPS satellite successfully launched on Soyuz
The Airbus-built CHEOPS satellite has been successfully launched on a Soyuz rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
CHEOPS is the first exoplanetary mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). It is also the first satellite built by Airbus in Spain for ESA. CHEOPS will characterise …
SK Telecom, Samsung set sail with 5G autonomous navigation platform
SK Telecom and Samsung Heavy Industries set sail with their 5G-based autonomous navigation platform, which will allow ships to move and set destinations on their own. Samsung provided 3.3m craft for the trial, which SK Telecom equipped with LIDAR at a shipyard covered by its …
Advanced Navigation raises $13M for global expansion, R&D
Australian-based Advanced Navigation, which develops artificial intelligencebased navigation technologies for robotics and self-driving vehicles, this week announced it has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO Innovation Fund, along with Brick & Mortar Ventures and In-Q-Tel. …
Madagascar embarks on multisectoral nutrition mapping
Nearly one in two children under five years old suffer from chronic malnutrition in Madagascar, according to the 2018 Global Nutrition Report. Malnutrition is more prevalent in some parts of the country due to economic disparities, lack of resources and increased poverty.
To combat this issue, the Government of Madagascar …
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of experiences globally with LRS PPPs and privatization proposals. Readers may recall that in the first part of the paper published in November issue the emphasis was on understanding privatization and Public Private Partnerships…
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