GPS World articles from January 2008

GPS World archives from January 2008

Excerpt from the system design & test discussion forum; Training with GPS: it's good horse sense.(GPS World News on Your Target)(Excerpt)
January 1, 2008... The equestrian sport is a worldwide multi-million dollar industry. Tremendous amounts of time, effort, and financial resources are devoted to the training of horses and riders. A real-time tracking and monitoring device that provides...

Traffic report.(GPS World News on Your Target)
January 1, 2008... 81,828 unique visitors last month 126,461 e-newsletter subscribers Up 23 percent!

Hottest pages @ GPSWorld.com.(GPS World News on Your Target)
January 1, 2008... November 20-December 20, 2007 1 Google Includes Location Finder in Mobile Google Maps 2 Recently Launched GLONASS Satellites Deemed Healthy 3 Continuous Navigation: Combining GPS with Sensor-Based Dead Reckoning 4 Lets Go Downtown,...

LBS editor called up.(GPS World News on Your Target)
January 1, 2008... Contributing editor Kevin Dennehy, who writes our twice-monthly LBS Insider e-mail newsletter, was called up for active duty and sent to Germany in December, for six months. We only learned in October that he is a lieutenant colonel in the...

Opportunities abound.(OUT IN FRONT)
January 1, 2008... Left hand, meet right hand. Let's stay in touch. When I wrote in November that "Di Qui's article on geoencryption with Loran represents to my knowledge the first article ever published in this magazine that is not about GPS or some other...

eLoran, superhero sidekick!(EXPERT ADVICE)
January 1, 2008... Today, GPS is the positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) superhero. The miracle of our age is that over a period of just two decades or so, GPS has become a mass-market commodity. We have massaged the physics; watched broadband mobile...

Racer's edge.(ADVISORY BOARD UPDATE)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... GERARD LACHAPELLE heads the Position, Location And Navigation (PLAN) Group of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, which has developed an ultra-precise, ultra-light weight navigation system to provide Canadian ski racers...

The money-go-round.(THE SYSTEM)
January 1, 2008... Budgets for both GPS and Europe's Galileo program appeared at the end of last year, in varying stages of maturity. Matters will have progressed by the time you read this, but here's what we knew at press date, December 20. GPS Budget. The...

u-Nav latest GPS chip company acquired.(INDUSTRY WATCH)
January 1, 2008... Following an ongoing trend of mergers involving GPS tech companies, chip and software supplier u-Nav Microelectronics is being acquired by wireless chip and chipset provider Atheros Communications Inc., based in Santa Clara, California. ...

Hemisphere GPS harvests steer-by-wire company.(SURVEY & CONSTRUCTION)(BeeLine Technologies Proprietary Ltd.)(global positioning systems)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Hemisphere GPS of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Australia's Beeline Technologies Pty. Ltd. for $21 million. Beeline is a privately held, precision-guidance...

Hemisphere's Crescent receivers now for handhelds.(THE BUSINESS)
January 1, 2008... Hemisphere GPS's Crescent GPS technology, specifically its XF100 series DGPS receivers, is now available for handheld navigation devices. Specifically designed to work with TDS Recon and the Juniper Archer Field PC models, the Hemisphere...

Hexagon closes on NovAtel acquisition.(THE BUSINESS)
January 1, 2008... NovAtel Inc. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) announced November 28 that Hexagon Canada Acquisition Inc. has successfully taken up all of the shares tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to its tender offer for all the outstanding common shares...

L-3 lands $33 million Air Force contract extension.(MILITARY & GOVERNMENT)
January 1, 2008... L-3 Communications has received a $33 million option on an existing contract with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to develop standard cards for the Air Force's Modernized User Equipment (MUE) Program. The MUE...

Air Force extends Rockwell Collins MUE contract.(MILITARY & GOVERNMENT)
January 1, 2008... The U.S. Air Force has exercised a $50.7 million contract option with Rockwell Collins to complete the next phase of the Modernized User Equipment (MUE) program, the company announced December 12. Work will consist of receiver card...

Apples to apples: standardized testing for high-sensitivity receivers.(SYSTEM DESIGN & TEST)
January 1, 2008... On paper, many products have similar performance specifications, but experience teaches that there can be a significant difference between specified performance and measured performance even under well-controlled conditions. Manufacturer data...

Global SBAS.(Leadership Talks)(Interview)
January 1, 2008... Jayanta Ray (JR) received his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary in 2000. He has worked in the GPS field since 1992, and is group manager at Accord Software and Systems in Bangalore, India. Alan Cameron: Tell us about Accord's new...

2008 Receiver Survey.(Part 1)(Survey)
January 1, 2008... Now in its 16th year, the annual GPS World Receiver Survey provides the longest-running, most comprehensive database of GPS equipment available in one place. With information provided by 55 manufacturers on 493 receivers, the survey...

2008 Receiver Survey.(Part 2)
January 1, 2008... Manufacturer Model Channels/Tracking Mode Raytheon Anti-jam GPS 1 or 8 www.raytheon.com Receiver (AGR) Miniature Airborne 12/Continuous...

The manufacturer's road.(BUSINESS OUTLOOK)
January 1, 2008... In a relatively short time, the current consumer markets have enlarged to the point that almost 10 percent of U.S. households now own some personal navigation device. Let's take a look at how the market has evolved and the drivers that will...

Year of the who.(BUSINESS OUTLOOK)
January 1, 2008... Technology will take a back seat to the X-factor in industry this year. While the technology is somewhat predictable for months (even years) in advance, the X-factor is full of surprises and 2008 will be the stage. The X-factor is the...

Working indoor up and down.(BUSINESS OUTLOOK)
January 1, 2008... Even here in Los Angeles, as we get to the winter months, we spend more time indoors. Our cell phone usage echoes our lives, and as our indoor mobile usage increases, some of our thoughts can't help but turn to location, which is...

Good, better, best: expanding the Wide Area Augmentation System.(INNOVATION)
January 1, 2008... The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) enhances the GPS Standard Positioning Service, providing sufficient integrity, accuracy, availability, and continuity for use in commercial aviation. Fielded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration...

A-GPS receiver modules.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... Furuno introduces the 84 series of high-sensitivity A-GPS receiver modules. The GPS modules include a CPU, ROM, RAM, TCXO, and saw filter. GN-84A (22 x 22 x 3 millimeters) with antenna detection and protection circuits is designed for...

High-gain, low-noise amplifier.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... The MAX2659 is a high-gain, low-noise amplifier (LNA) for GPS, Galileo, and GLONASS applications. Designed using Maxim's low-power SiGe BiCMOS process, this device achieves a high 20.5 decibel (dB) gain and a low noise figure of 0.8 dB while...

GPS/inertial interface support.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... Spirent has increased the range of supported interfaces on its SimINERTIAL system. As well as tightly coupled integrated GPS inertial navigators, the company is able to support loosely coupled inertial measurement unit (IMU) and GPS...

Software receiver.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... The NavX-NSR GPS/Galileo Navigation Software Receiver is an interactive GPS/Galileo software receiver combining live software configurability, advanced signal processing, and a high-bandwidth RF front-end to provide new software receiver...

Improvements for precision agriculture.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... John Deere has released two improvements to its software for its precision-guidance field equipment. The previous version of StarFire RTK had sub-inch accuracy but was limited to a six-mile radius from the base station. The Long Range RTK...

Sub-meter receiver and signal processing.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... The DG14 RTK is a cost-effective, sub-meter GNSS (GPS + SBAS) + Beacon receiver, designed to enable customers in high-precision applications can now get high-end precision in a low-cost GNSS unit. The DG14 RTK uses BLADE, Magellan's GNSS...

Ceramic chip antenna.(RECEIVER TECHNOLOGY)
January 1, 2008... The W3010 is a 1.575-gigahertz GPS ceramic chip antenna that features omni-directional radiation in a compact 10 x 3.2 x 2 millimeter forn. Made of lead-free materials, the W3010 is fully SMD compatible, lead-free soldering compatible, and RoHS...

Students debate cell requirement.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A school-mandated purchase of a GPS-enabled cell phone has stirred cries of "Big Brother" from some students, but in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre last spring others find it comforting that their whereabouts can be tracked., reports...

Geo games grow.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... A November 27 article by Business Week discusses how the "surge in phones with built-in satellite navigation capability has sparked a wave of creative mapping and locating services" and highlights navigation games. Among the games...

Please delete me!(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Large rigs directed by GPS are coming to grief in rural English villages--hitting fences, shearing mirrors from cars, and becoming stuck, reports the International Herald Tribune. Tiny Barrow Gurney--an "alternate route" to Bristol...