GPS World articles from April 2003

GPS World archives from April 2003

Hazardous transport. (The View from Here).
April 1, 2003... Say what you will about the post 9/11 world, but terrorism has improved my personal grooming. Here's how... Like many other travelers, with the increased security at airports, I regularly find myself shedding various pieces of clothing to...

Augmented GPS: all in the family. (Washington View).(Wide Area Augmentation System )
April 1, 2003... America's family of GPS augmentation systems is finally growing up. The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), designed to provide enhanced navigation signals for en route aircraft and approaches to airports, has worked through its growing...

15 tons. 1500 feet. 4 Gs.: airdrop behavior of parachuted cargo pallets. (Integration Challenge).(SRI International research )
April 1, 2003... As military operations call for air delivery of bigger cargoes and more heavily-equipped paratroopers, cargo pallets must be carefully loaded and rigged, and new personnel parachutes designed, to prevent damage or loss in the stressful airdrop...

Stand up, hook up--go! Instrumenting paratroopers. (Integration Challenge).
April 1, 2003... Parachute evaluation for a new parachute design (for increased equipment and personnel carrying weight) requires thousands of drops to certify operational capabilities. The two primary evaluation criteria are the time it takes for the...

An evaluation of the military benefits of the Galileo system. (Challenge System).
April 1, 2003... The U.S. government has publicly and privately expressed concern that Europe's planned Galileo navigation satellite system will adversely affect the integrity of its own Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) and duplicate its functions. The...

Put to the test: Air Force's most advanced nav system. (Challenge Integration).(Global Inertial Navigation System designed for the F/A-22 stealth fighter)
April 1, 2003... The 746th Test Squadron evaluated the new Global Inertial Navigation System (GINS) designed for the Air Force's developmental F/A-22 stealth fighter. With an embedded 12-channel receiver and 56-state Kalman filter, GINS represents a marked...

Geo-encryption: using GPS to enhance data security. (Innovation).
April 1, 2003... On September 17, 2000, Qualcomm CEO and Chairman Irwin Jacob's IBM Thinkpad computer was stolen while he stood a few meters from it. He "was startled to find his laptop missing from the podium after he wrapped up questions from the Society of...

Galileo advances in face of continuing ESA deadlock. (Global View).(European Space Agency )
April 1, 2003... Despite nearly a yearlong stalemate in the European Space Agency (ESA) over member shares of the work, the Galileo program continues to show strong momentum toward creating a European counterpart to GPS. Some of the new impetus has come from...

GPS World Antenna Survey.(AeroAntenna Technology products)
April 1, 2003... GPS World Antenna Survey The following listings were inadvertently omitted from the February 2003 GPS World Antenna Survey. Intro. User Manufacturer Model date env. (1) Size ...

Fleet location trends: fragmented market, security drivers. (GPS Inside).(C.J. Driscoll and Associates report)
April 1, 2003... The number of commercial fleet vehicles equipped with automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems has more than doubled in the past three years, according to a report released by research firm C.J. Driscoll & Associates. A decline in AVL equipment...

Temex clocks new engine. (Launches).(Temex's Rubidium synClock+ )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... A synchronized rubidium clock engine from Neuchatel, Switzerland--based Temex targets the telecommunications, navigation, defense, broadcasting, and instrumentation markets. The Rubidium synClock+ engine offers integrated synchronization to...

DataGrid in Zone with Tracker. (Launches).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... DataGrid, based in Gainesville, Florida, announced its Zone Tracker system for restricting a fleet of vehicles or other equipment into a predefined geographic region and tracking their use in the established zones. The device also collects...

3-in-1 antennas from Comant. (Launches).(ComDat)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Dealing with the aviation problem of airframe "real estate" and interference between antennas, Santa Fe Springs, New Mexico-- based Comant Industries has released its new line or ComDat antennas, combining various functionalities in a single...

DeLorme's Bluetooth handheld. (Launches).(Earthmate GPS receiver)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... DeLorme or Yarmouth, Maine, has introduced its Earthmate GPS receiver, reportedly providing 2- to 5-meter accuracy and submeter postprocessing accuracy. The WAAS--enabled 1.875 X 2.09-inch device includes a SiRFStar IIe low-power chipset that...

UTC colloquium. (Events).(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... A meeting May 28-30 in Torino, Italy, will discuss future definition and use of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). A proposed change to the UTC time-scale has a potentially significant impact on communications networks, navigation systems, and...

Calendar 2003.(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... APRIL 14-17 JSDE (Joint Navigation Conference) Las Vegas, Nevada. The Joint Services Data Exchange is themed "Global Navigation: Supporting the Warfighter." Security clearance required. See . APRIL 22 GNSS Seminars ...