GPS World articles from January 2002

GPS World archives from January 2002

Thinking big. (The view from here).(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... Let's talk about that free, civil/military utility and remarkable national asset that benefits so many Americans and foreign citizens alike. And let's think big about where we should take it in the future. But first, this personal...

Galileo on the brink: Delay builds tensions. (Global View).
January 1, 2002... Europe's proposed Galileo system has become the focus of mounting political pressures from inside and outside the European Union (EU), which has spent more than seven years investigating whether to build a civil counterpart to the U.S. Global...

Boulder HOPs aboard GPS tracking. (Application Challenge).
January 1, 2002... In Boulder, Colorado, buses are the only viable alternative for short-route public transit systems. They are relatively inexpensive, can be quickly deployed, and are easily rerouted to accommodate changes in usage patterns. Introduction of a...

Water vapor monitoring for weather forecasts: Near-real-time. (Challenge Application).(Technical)
January 1, 2002... Detailed short-range numerical weather prediction (NWP) requires observational information of good quality and with high spatial/temporal resolution. Due to various limitations, conventional observations from radiosondes or by meteorological...

GPS World Receiver Survey.(Buyers Guide)
January 1, 2002... Now in its 10th year, the annual GPS World Receiver Survey provides the longest-running and most complete reference to GPS equipment available in one place. With information provided by more than 60 manufacturers on nearly 500 receivers,...

Modeling Photon Pressure: The key to high-precision GPS satellite orbits. (Innovation).(Column)
January 1, 2002... "Photons have mass?! I didn't even know they were Catholic." -- Anonymous Actually photons hove no mass, but that does not mean they cannot affect GPS satellite orbits. GPS satellites operate in a harsh, radiation-filled environment 20,000...

RF Micro Devices: Acquires IBM GPS business. (GPS Inside).
January 1, 2002... IBM Microelectronics has sold its GPS business to RF Micro Devices, Inc., a Greensboro, North Carolina--based provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications. Financial terms of the...

New Canada Geoid Model. (GPS Inside).
January 1, 2002... Natural Resources Canada has released a new geoid model and software with the capacity to provide accurate elevations across Canada, as part of its Canadian Spatial Reference System (CSRS). The Canadian Gravimetric Geoid model (CGG2000) and...

ION Meeting Call for Papers. (GPS Inside).
January 1, 2002... The Institute of Navigation (ION) has called for abstracts for presentations at its annual meeting taking place in June. Submit to email by deadline February 4. ION's 2002 conference schedule consists of: the National Technical Meeting,...

ESRI Grants in spatial data. (GPS Inside).(Environmental Systems Research Institute)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ESRI, based in Redlands, California, established the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Global Map International Grant Program in May. The initiative intends to jumpstart development and distribution of national geospatial data as a...

Starlink flies to Raven. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Raven Industries, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of precision agriculture products headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, acquired GPS specialist Starlink, Incorporated for approximately $8 million cash. Starlink's Austin, Texas...

Navman has SiRF up sleeve. (Deals).(Navman GPS 3000 add-on for Compaq's iPAQ Pocket PC family)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Navman's new mobile GPS system, the GPS 3000 add-on for Compaq's iPAQ Pocket PC family, contains the SiRFstarII chipset from SiRF Technology, Inc., of San Jose, California Navman (formerly Talon Technology), based in Auckland, New Zealand, with...

CSI wireless on the case. (Deals).(contract with CNH Global)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CSI Wireless, Inc. of Calgary Alberta, Canada, has signed a $4-million supply agreement with CNH Global N.V., a tractor and construction equipment manufacturer headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois. CNH Global, a $10 billion company in 2000,...

NovAtel with Raytheon LAAS. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Raytheon Air Traffic Management Systems awarded a long term, multiphase development contract to NovAtel, Inc., for the receiver in Raytheon's Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) ground facility (LGF) in development for the Federal Aviation...

CMC in Air Safety System. (Deals).(contract with Aviation Communication and Surveillance Systems)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Aviation Communication and Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint venture of L-3 Communications and Thales, based in Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed CMC Electronics (Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada) to supply GPS receivers for ACSS's new...

Shell funds airbiquity distributors pick up accessory. (GPS Inside).
January 1, 2002... Shell Internet Ventures BV, a corporate venture capital fund established by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies, has made a "major funding committment" to Airbiquity, the location technology company based in Bainbridge Island, Washington....

Leica to ID petro tankers. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Three new tankers under construction for British Petroleum will get integrated differential GPS (DGPS)/automatic identification systems (AIS) from Seacoast Electronics, a distributor for Leica Marine GPS (Torrance, California). The equipment...

Applanix POS has trimble. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Applanix (Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada) announced that some of its Position and Orientation System (POS) products will be available with Trimble GPS receivers: for dual frequency and RTK application, the Trimble BD 750, and for single...

Trimble CORS to New Zealand. (Deals).(Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Insitute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS) of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, has purchased 20 Trimble 5700 Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) GPS receivers for use in a national network to monitor land movements. GNS...

Sarantel in cell phones. (Deals).(Sarantel PowerHelix)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... CellGuide, a Rehovot, Israel-based chipset manufacturer specializing in wireless location devices, selected the PowerHelix antenna from Sarantel, of Wellingborough, United Kingdom, for use in its new mobile phone GPS add-on. CellGuide's AGPS...

GPS phones home in Japan. (Launches).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... QUALCOMM Incorporated launched nationwide service in Japan of GPS-enabled handsets and associated position location service plans by KDDI Corporation of Tokyo. KDDI offers three handsets powered by QUALCOMM DCMA Technologies' MSM3300 mobile...

Chapman Ericsson choice. (Launches).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Ericsson's new T60c mobile handset will feature a detachable Smartback accessory incorporating the Safeguard Companion GPS Enhancer from Chapman Technologies, Inc. of Boca Raton, Florida. The Swedish phone manufacturer's T60c CDMA device will...

Pacific Crest in modem mode. (Launches).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Pacific Crest Corporation of Santa Clara, California, introduced the Positioning Data Link (PDL) Low Powered Base (LPB) kits. PDL LPB modems comply with communication standards for OPS Real Time Kinematic (RTK) surveying. The kits come in...

Leadtek's compact flash. (Launches).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Leadtek, based in Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, has released a new Compact Flash card (CF) OPS receiver for Pocket PC and other personal digital assistant (PDA) applications. The 9534 OPS CF card measures 74X38x5 millimeters including the connector,...

GPS handset from Audiovox. (Launches).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Hauppage, New York-based Audiovox Communications Corporation announced its first GPS-enabled, 3G handset, the 9155GPX, using Qualcomm CDMA's MSM5 100 chipset with Bluetooth capability and Qualcomm gpsOne positioning. The Audiovox handset also...

Navicom GPS translator. (Launches).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Navicom Inc., a South Korea-based company has launched a GPS translator system for real-time tracking of fast-moving objects and a pseudolite system for indoor positioning. The GPS translator combines the company's GPS signal processor and...

People.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems Inc. appointed Matthew Smith as president, replacing Martin Nix, who becomes corporate business development officer for Leica's parent company in Switzerland. Smith will lead the Surveying and Engineering division for the...

Clip-on receiver. (Receiver).(Quick-Loc)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The Quick-Loc GPS receiver works with the Compaq iPaq Pocket PC, clipping onto the back similarly to the way Flash and PC card expansion packs do. The receiver incluedes a Compact Flash card slot so data can be logged while using the receiver....

GPS down converter IC. (Receiver).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The STB5610 is a one-chip system to interface a GPS antenna to microcontroller, implementing a OPS RF front end. It can support active and passive antennas, downconverts from the OPS L1 signal to 4 MHz output signal, and is also compatible with...

GPS module. (Receiver).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The OPS 9540, designed for car, marine, and fleet management units, carries a 12-channel SiRF chipset with stated cold/warm/hot start times of 45/38/8 seconds respectively, and a 0.1 second reacquisition time. It also includes an RTCM SC-104...

Module command set. (Receiver).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The AT command set option for [mu] OPS receiver modules reads GPS positions and incorporates the control of the GSM modem into a GPS receiver, sparing the extra processor. This integrated control system for GSM modems is designed for autonomous...

OEM receiver. (Receiver).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The Proteus 12-channel single-frequency receiver, designed for vehicle fleet management applications, is available in single card form and as an evaluation kit, including differential correction software, with a SN-ANT-30 active GPS antenna. It...

Embedded OEM sensor. (Receiver).(EverMore Techynology GM-X205)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... EverMore Techynology Inc. offers the GM-X205, a 12-channel carrier aided GPS receiver module designed for embedded OEM applications It includes an on-board patch antenna and RS-232 driver. Based on EverMore's second-generation GPS chipset, the...

Survey-grade receiver firmware. (Receiver).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Sokkia has introduced new firmware options for its Radian and Radian IS survey-grade GPS systems. The "Basic" models are capable of single-frequency (L1) static and kinematic postprocessed surveys on short baselines (less than 10 kilometers)....

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2002... Indoor Chipset. An image of Global Locate's "Indoor Chipset" that ran with a product description in the December issue of GPS World (page 14) was improperly sized. The actual sizes of the "GL-HSRF High Sensitivity GPS Tuner Chip" and...

Motor grader GPS. (Receiver).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Trimble's SiteVision system targets the construction market, with its newest version aimed at motor grader operators. This package includes a 36-channel, dual-antenna GPS receiver, two GPS antennas on masts, a wireless data radio, onboard color...

Survey system. (Receiver).(Thales Navigation's Ashtech Precision Products division ProMark2 GPS Survey System)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Thales Navigation's Ashtech Precision Products division has introduced the ProMark2 GPS Survey System. According to the company, the ProMark2 delivers a combination of post-processed, centimeter-level static survey capabilities with...

Calendar 2002.
January 1, 2002... JANUARY 28-30 Institute of Navigation (ION) National Technical Meeting 2002 San Diego, California. Sessions will discuss GPS and navigation technologies for public safety, air and space, land, marine, and military applications. Contact...

Voice/Data/Position transceiver. (Wireless).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Designed for telematics and mobile telemetry applications, the CVDM-3100 OEM module can be integrated into mobile assets and other equipment to transmit GPS position and vehicle status during a voice call. It supports voice and data on AMPS,...

Wireless communication system. (Wireless).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... The license-free SR-7100 radio system provides a 20-mile local area voice and data network for multiple remote units, with an optional GPS module to enable positioning, including real-time kinematic (RTK) corrections, for application in fleet...

Network protocol analyzer. (Hardware).(Klos Technologies' PacketView Pro)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2002... Klos Technologies, Inc., introduced PacketView Pro, a LAN/WAN protocol analyzer with optional GPS-synchronized time stamps. The product collects packets simultaneously at multiple locations, time stamps them accurately using GPS-synchronized...

Crystal oscillator. (Hardware).
January 1, 2002... The IVT7500 is a slim Voltage Controlled Temperature Compensated Crystal Oscillator (VCTCXO) for the wireless industry. It uses analog IC for compensation, and can operate on a supply voltage between 2.7V and 5.5V. Frequency stabilities are as...

Letter to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... U.S. National Grid You write in your November "View" that MORS is "one of the common datums residing within OPS receivers." MGRS is a map projection-based coordinate system not a geodetic datum. Therein lies one of the MGRS problem. MGRS...