Positioning, navigation and beyond George Cho, David Last, Sharafat Gadimova, Chris Rizos, Börje Forssell, Renato Filjar, FRIN, James L Farrell, Sang Jeong Lee, Akio Yasuda, John Hannah, Suresh V Kibe and Abbas Rajabifard | Record and Replay Signals for the Sporting Market Mark Sampson | Resilient PNT – Making way through rough waters P Williams, A Grant and C Hargreaves | GALILEO-only Position Fix from India: First Experience Anindya Bose, Saikat Das, Rakesh Malik, Debipriya Dutta | On the search algorithm of independ ent baselines Erhu WEI, Jiandong LIU and Yufeng GU | GIS Generalization Zakaria Yehia Ahmed | Download your copy of September 2013 issue!

 

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Positioning, navigation and beyond
Professor George Cho AM, Professor David Last, Sharafat Gadimova, Chris Rizos, Professor Börje Forssell, Dr Renato Filjar, FRIN, James L Farrell, Sang Jeong Lee, Akio Yasuda, Emeritus Professor John Hannah, Dr Suresh V Kibe, Professor Abbas Rajabifard
On the occasion of 100th issue of Coordinates, experts share their views on issues, priorities and challenges pertaining to positioning, navigation and beyond...
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  NAVIGATION  
 
Resilient PNT – Making way through rough waters
P Williams, A Grant and C Hargreaves
The Accessibility for Shipping, Efficiency Advantages and Sustainability (ACCSEAS) project will be considering several means of obtaining alternative PNT information. The GLA, and the ACCSEAS project, continue to support the use of multiple PNT sources in order to keep the mariner safe and avoid the presentation of hazardously misleading info...
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GALILEO-only Position Fix from India: First Experience
Anindya Bose, Saikat Das, Rakesh Malik, Debipriya Dutta
The paper reports the first successful Galileo-only 3-dimensional position solution obtained from Burdwan, India on 03 July, 2013. The paper also presents the initial observations of solutions obtained using one or more Galileo satellites with GPS and/ or GLONASS...
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  POSITIONING  
  On the search algorithm of independent baselines
Erhu WEI, Jiandong LIU and Yufeng GU
The paper first introduces six search algorithms of independent baselines and realizes them by program, then the search algorithms are compared with real examples...
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  FEATURE  
  Record and Replay Signals for the Sporting Market
Mark Sampson
The amount of info that the modern sportsperson is logging, analysing, and sharing is phenomenal. There are now dozens of ways of uploading data for the whole world to share and study. LabSat3 is the new product from UK based Racelogic is a cost effective GPS record and replay system available for anyone developing GPS devices, and the most convenient to use. It is a battery-powered, standalone unit that can be taken anywhere and used to record satellite signals for reply back at base...
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  Industry news   Galileo update   Other News
 
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Gain perspective in real-world GNSS simulation

LT400HS GNSS Handheld by CHC

Is your GNSS receiver Galielo-ready?

Bridging Sustainable Asia – 34th ACRS!

IFEN and WORK Microwave to support BeiDou

Nikon mechanical total stations. A History of quality instruments

GNSS receiver module for satnav and positioning

3-year PT Seascape Positioning Contract for Veripos

GMV wins cartographic production contract from Abu Dhabi

Septentrio’s receiver integrated with Tethered Aerostat Systems

ArcPad 10.2 Improves Integration with ArcGIS

Next-Gen Tablet PC for Surveying

Ashtech High-Accuracy GNSS Module

AP15 GNSS-Inertial Board

 


OHB expects to know about Galileo delivery dates by late September
Satellite and rocket-component builder OHB AG on Aug. 14 said it should know by late September whether the tests of its first Galileo satellites are proceeding well enough to permit their delivery later this year.

In a conference call with financial analysts, Bremen, Germany-based OHB said Galileo’s European government owners want to take the necessary time to validate the performance of the first OHB-built satellites so that production of the 20 remaining spacecraft can be done quickly...
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European Commission invites GNSS patents
The European Commission (EC) has invited firms to submit tenders for a four-year contract to monitor patent applications and grants both at the European Patent Office and at patent offices around the globe. The contractor’s objectives, according to Call for tenders No ENTR/269/PP/ENT/ADM/13/7037, are to measure “the innovative and technological performance of EU GNSS Industry by setting up and performing the monitoring of its patenting activity vis-à-vis the world competitors” ...[more]

 
India’s GAGAN to be operationalized for aviation soon

DGCA India to hire 100 airworthiness officers ahead of safety audits

Russian Aerospace industry needs State help

GPS with Beidou satellites combined by Curtin University researchers

GPS companies sued for $1.9 billion by Harbinger

Nokia’s new indoor location-based experiences for QUALCOMM

India’s open data portal launched with over 3600 datasets

Lebanon launches system to develop health map

Buddhist sites to be mapped

Apple banned from taking aerial photography of Oslo

GPS-guided quadcopter for the masses

Giant leap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

LIDAR-based tool forecasts clear-air turbulence

 

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