Coordinates Ezine -Feb'15

Navigation – Current Challenges David Last, Colin Beatty, Dorota A Grejner-Brzezinska, Zbigniew Pietrzy kowski, Dr Guenter Heinrichs, Dana A Goward | A look into the future of positioning, navigation and timing Marco Lisi | The impact of the high ionospheric activity in the EGNOS performance Pedro Pintor, Roberto Roldán, Javier Gómez, Carlos de la Casa and Rosa María Fidalgo | Managing inaccurate historical survey records in a future accurate digital world Ian Harper | Operational benefits of Multi Constellation Dual Frequency GNSS for aviation Francisco Salabert | Geospatial techniques for modelling the environmental niche of the species J S Chauhan, C P Singh, Rakesh Shukla and J S Parihar | Relevance of Information Technology and Urban Planning in India: An innovative approach Sangeet Kumar Gupta and Shashi Mehta | Download your copy of March 2015 issue!

NAVIGATION

Navigation – Current Challenges
David Last, Colin Beatty, Dorota A Grejner-Brzezinska, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Dr Guenter Heinrichs and Dana A Goward
Experts across the globe discussed current challenges before navigation at International Navigation Conference held at Manchester, UK during February 24 – 26, 2015. We present here some of the views... [more]

GNSS

A look into the future of positioning, navigation and timing
Marco Lisi
The world urgently needs an even stronger, more resilient and more versatile PNT infrastructure... [more]

The impact of the high ionospheric activity in the EGNOS performance
Pedro Pintor, Roberto Roldán, Javier Gómez, Carlos de la Casa and Rosa María Fidalgo
This article provides a summary of the different analyses performed by ESSP relative to the existing correlation between the EGNOS performance measured over the north region of the EGNOS service area, some ionospheric indicators and some solar events... [more]

SURVEYING

Managing inaccurate historical survey records in a future accurate digital world
Ian Harper
We start a series of two papers, first being the underlying survey database technology and workflows and the second being how the process is facilitating the representation of the survey plan in a machine readable file that is allowing automation of manual plan examination processes and transactions. We present here the first paper. The second paper would be published in next issue.. [more]

AVIATION

Operational benefits of Multi Constellation Dual Frequency GNSS for aviation
Francisco Salabert
This paper summarises recent discussions of the 12th ICAO Air Navigation Conference and ICAO Navigation Systems Panel, and the work done within the SESAR project... [more]

GIS

Geospatial techniques for modelling the environmental niche of the species
J S Chauhan, C P Singh, Rakesh Shukla and J S Parihar
Geospatial tools helped confirm Indian Giant Squirrel presence in the Kanha Tiger Reserve... [more]

URBAN PLANNING

Relevance of Information Technology and Urban Planning in India: An innovative approach
Sangeet Kumar Gupta and Shashi Mehta
The extensive usage of ICT technologies are continously transforming our cities and making them more advanced, habitable and livable... [more]