Coordinates Ezine -August'16

Lessons learned from the development of GNSS integrity augmentations Sam Pullen | Comprehension of the Eye of the Navigator LtCdr Odd Sveinung Hareide and Dr Runar Ostnes | The integration of UAVs into the civilian airspace will open up a new market Siddappaji B | The U.S. commercial drone community gets back to business Patrick Egan | IoT and Drones: A tale of two technologies Biren Gandhi | Indoor Maps – the new frontier of mapmaking Joseph Leigh and Stefan Gimeson | The wider potential market is still waiting for solutions Matteo Faggin | End users used to GPS navigation, expect the same service on indoors Dr Thomas Burgess | Geodetic measurements in the area of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant Prof. Georgi Valev, Eng Georgi Rainov And Prof. Keranka Vassileva | Download your copy of August 2016 issue!

GNSS

Lessons Learned from the Development of GNSS Integrity Augmentations
Sam Pullen
This paper summarizes some of the important lessons that I have learned over two decades of work on designing integrity augmentations for GPS to support civil aviation... [more]

NAVIGATION

Comprehension of the Eye of the Navigator
LtCdr Odd Sveinung Hareide AND Dr Runar Ostnes
This article presents Eye Tracking data that has been collected on board the world’s fastest littoral combat ship, compared with similar datasets collected in a bridge navigation simulator... [more]

UAV

The integration of UAVs into the civilian airspace will open up a new market
Siddappaji B
Comprehensive policy and regulations are needed to be formulated immediately to reap the benefits of UAV... [more]

The U.S. commercial drone community gets back to business
Patrick Egan
Professionals can now employ the technology without fear of running into regulatory trouble... [more]

IoT and Drones: A tale of two technologies
Biren Gandhi
If we put IoT elements side-by-side with elements of the drone ecosystem, it becomes remarkably noticeable that the drone economy provides almost identical value proposition as the IoT... [more]

INDOOR MAPPING

Indoor Maps – the new frontier of mapmaking
Joseph Leigh And Stefan Gimeson
This paper examines the evolution of indoor mapping, the current trends in the sector and what the future holds for "the new frontier of mapmaking"... [more]

The wider potential market is still waiting for solutions
Matteo Faggin
We face a challenge with the lack of a standard to refer to and of technology understanding from customers... [more]

End users used to GPS navigation, expect the same service on indoors
Dr Thomas Burgess
Users expect free and effortless service with low latency and low battery and data usage... [more]

GEODESY

Geodetic measurements in the area of Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant
Prof. Georgi Valev, Eng Georgi Rainov And Prof. Keranka Vassileva
The results of the measurements can be analyzed and interpreted in close cooperation with specialists from different professions and representatives of various fields of science and technology... [more]