An interview with Charles Branch, Portfolio Manager, Radio products, Pacific Crest Corporation

“The Gold Standard in Communications and Positioning.” What are the efforts that go into maintaining the ‘standard’ at Pacific Crest?
The efforts are towards:
• Increasing range by use of cleaner signal and greater receiver sensitivity
• Increasing operational efficiency by use of smarter protocols
• Increasing throughput by use …

says Mr. Swarna Subba Rao, Surveyor General of India about the upcoming agenda for Survey of India.

As the Surveyor General of India what are your immediate priorities for Survey of India?
Survey of India is India’s National Survey and Mapping Organisation and is the oldest scientific department of the country. In the years since its establishment …

With the evolution of technology.
GIS, GPS, LiDAR, mobile mapping, …
And changing societal needs for spatial information.
Google maps, in-car navigation, PDA, iPods, iPads, …
Facebook, twitter, smart phones, …
The role of surveyors needs to evolve.
From ‘product orientation’ to data analysts,
Quality control and quality assurance specialists.
The change has begun.
Adaptation is inevitable (read page 7).

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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MICHIBIKI

Asia seems to be emerging.
As a new centre for satellite navigation.
China is moving fast.
India is maintaining its own pace.
Now Japan is set to touch the zenith.
With the scheduled launch of MICHIBIKI.
The first satellite of Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
A landmark in the regional navigation system.
The sun rises.
Again in the East.

Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org

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Sherman Lo, Benjamin Peterson, Per Enge

This article assesses the security of eLoran and discusses how its features can be utilized to provide defenses against likely attacks

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have become increasingly interwoven into the fabric of our infrastructure and economic system. However, as the services provided by GNSS become more important for safety …

Niki Regina, Matteo Zanzi

In this paper three different solutions are proposed for the problem of location-based selective broadcasting of traffic messages

Although at present its implementation within the full operational capability is under discussion and called into doubt due to recent changed circumstances in the overall system management, one of the initially planned features of GALILEO …

James L Farrell, John W lavrakas
Addressing GPS user problems
While GPS offers a ubiquitous, precise, and reliable positioning and timing service to much of the world, in many cases this service falls short. Anyone who has walked into a building with a GPS receiver actively displaying a location is aware of the immediate effect of the …

September 2010

GDI APAC

28-30 September

kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.geopatialdefenceasia.com

International Astronautical Congress 2010

27 Sep – 01 Oct

Prague Czech Republic

iac2010@guarant.cz

www.iac2010.cz/en

Geospatial Intelligence Summit

28-30 September 2010

Vienna, Austria

www.jacobfleming.com

October 2010

INTERGEO

5-7 October

Cologne, Germany

www.intergeo.de

3rd Int Conf on Geoinformation Tech for Natural Disaster Management

19-20 October 2010

Chiang Mai, Thailand

http://www.egeinfo.net/git4ndm2010/

GSDI-12 World Conference

19-22 October

Singapore

www.gsdi.org

CANEUS-Shared Small Satellites CSSP Int. Workshop

20-22 Oct

Tuscany, Italy

www.caneus.org/sharedsmallsats

International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

26-28 October

Taipei, Taiwan

http://gnss2010.ncku.edu.tw

November 2010

GEOINT 2010

1-4 November

New Orleans, …

Phase centre is defined as a point (or a set of points) in space from which, when emitted, far-field phasefronts or, correspondingly, group-delay fronts are spherical or substantially spherical [1-2]. That is, the phase value is constant in a certain angular area of interest when measured with respect to the coordinate system whose origin is in the PC. However, PC is ambiguous for most of the real-life antennas and its position varies for…

Latest Indian RS Satellite Cartosat-2B and a Dream’ of students

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15) successfully launched CARTOSAT-2B from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota on 12 July 2010.
In addition to CARTOSAT-2B; PSLV-C15 carried four auxiliary satellites namely STUDSAT a pico-satellite weighing less than 1 kg, built jointly by students from a consortium …