GPS World articles from July 2004

GPS World archives from July 2004

In it for the long haul.(The View from Here)
July 1, 2004... Driving down from Cleveland to Dayton, Ohio, on my way to the Institute of Navigation Annual Meeting. Two questions come to mind as I get out of the car at the rest area: how can anyone live with this humidity, and what is that unearthly shrill...

Advisory board update.(Queen Beatrix)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands named Jac Spaans an "Officier in de Order van Oranje-Nassau," a Dutch knighthood, on May 16 during the European Navigation Conference in Rotterdam. The conferral recognized his many years of service both to the...

Autonomous lawnmower event is GPS cutting edge.(Global View)(Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration )
July 1, 2004... A novel competition among university engineering students to build a GPS-guided lawnmower that could cut 150 square meters of grass without human intervention didn't turn out to be quite the Tom Sawyer moment that some had imagined. ...

Galileo project issues new call, [euro]67 million in proposals.(Global View)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... More than 500 participants from industry and public organizations in 25 countries attended a June 2 informational meeting on the second call for tenders on [euro]67 million worth of Galileo-related research projects. Galileo is the European...

Listening to the Universe: from a feed 500 meters high.(Radio Astronomy)
July 1, 2004... To build a bigger, better telescope, to see farther, farther out into the Universe--this has been a perpetual astronomical goal since Galileo. Now Canadian researchers propose a Square Kilometer Array of 32 "lenses," each reflecting...

How good does it get? Polaris: demonstrating performance levels of positioning technologies.(Simulation)(global navigation satellite systems)
July 1, 2004... New markets and professional applications are emerging to take advantage of the improvements in navigation performances that can be obtained by using complementary sensors and systems with GNSS. A new software tool, named Polaris, provides the...

To all the ships at sea: GNSS and maritime surveillance; As part of the Galileo program's exploration of new applications for the developing system, a consortium of companies used the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) as part of a system to track ocean-going vessels automatically over a large region.(Maritime Surveillance)(automatic identification system)
July 1, 2004... In recent years Europe, particularly along the Atlantic coastline, has seen a number of disastrous accidents involving oil tankers (Torrey Canyon, Amoco Cadiz, Tanio, Braer, Aegean Sea, Erika and Prestige). These have had catastrophic economic...

Spacecraft formation flying: relative positioning using dual-frequency carrier phase.(Spaceborne Receivers)(Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment )(Column)
July 1, 2004... On July 16, 1982, a Delta launch vehicle propelled the Landsat-4 remote sensing satellite into orbit. This satellite, the fourth in the United States' Landsat program, carried a new suite of sensors which produced data of such detail and...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2004... The March, 2004 Innovation column titled "Combining Low-Cost Inertial Systems with GPS: Applications for General Aviation" contained errors in Table 1, p. 40. Attitude drift numbers should be 0.3 deg (after 5 s) and 3.4 deg (after 1 min)...

GPS on supply chain tracks safe containers.(GPS Inside)(Transportation Security Administration)(Operation Safe Commerce )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Twelve intermodal shipping containers arrived at a national retailer distribution center near Seattle, Washington, on the final leg of a continuously-tracked international journey, as a pilot project of the Transportation Security...

Honeywell macrocell for GPS design.(Launches)(Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems, based in Plymouth, Minnesota, has introduced macrocells for military and civilian radio navigation and receiver technology in GPS electronics. Macrocells are mixed signal "building blocks" that...

Raytheon Tomahawk cruise missile.(Launches)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... The Raytheon Company has delivered the first production model of the GPS-guided Tactical Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile to the U.S. Navy at the company's Missile Systems operations in Tucson, Arizona. The surface- and submarine-launched...

Applanix airs new survey tool.(Launches)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Applanix, a Trimble subsidiary based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, released the latest version of Position and Orientation System for Airborne Vehicles (POSAV). Version 5 is an integrated turnkey system designed for direct georeferencing...

Noise Com tests E911 services.(Launches)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... Noise Com of Parsippany, New Jersey, has released an E911 Noise and Interference Generator for testing susceptibility to interference of E911 applications on cellular phones, as well as GPS receivers used in airborne, automotive, defense and...

Fujitsu licenses eRide AGPS IP.(Deals)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... eRide, Inc. of San Francisco, California, has licensed its GPS and assisted AGPS intellectual property (IP) to Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME), a semiconductor provider based in Frankfurt, Germany. FME will introduce an initial...

ESRI survey and GIS summit.(Events)
July 1, 2004... ESRI's second annual summit to focus on "Integrating Survey and GIS" will convene August 7-10 in San Diego, California. Designed for land surveyors, engineers, educators, and other professionals, it will cover survey data requirements for GIS...

Map Asia 2004.(Events)
July 1, 2004... Re-scheduled for August 26-29 in Beijing, China, the third annual Asian conference and exhibition on GIS, GPS, aerial photography, and remote sensing focuses on "multi-lateral geospatial ties." The conference and trade show hope to develop a...

InterGeo 2004.(Events )
July 1, 2004... A "People on the move" theme brings the focus to mobility of society and the individual in this year's InterGeo conference, the international conference and trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management, October 13-15 October 2004...

Call for papers navitec 2004.(Events)
July 1, 2004... The second European Space Agency (ESA) Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies, NAVITEC '2004, will take place December 8-10 at the European Space and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Workshop...

GPS/LORAN receiver.(Navigation and Guidance)
July 1, 2004... reelektronika's new LORADD integrated GPS/eLORAN receiver can output independent Long Range Radio Aid to Navigation (LORAB) positions, enhanced by Additional Secondary Factor (ASF) tables where available, and uses an integrated u-blox TIM-LP...

Video mapping software.(GPS-Related Software)
July 1, 2004... Red Hen Systems, Inc. has upgraded its MediaMapper video-mapping product to improve access to spatially-referenced video and audio recordings for GIS applications, with direct DVD indexing, to take advantage of the growth of DVD recording...

SAASM modular time code processor.(Timiing and Synchronization)
July 1, 2004... TRAK Microwave Corporation has introduced a GPS time code processor with Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) capabilities for range timing, satellite ground stations, communications networks and test and measurement system...

Calendar 2004.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... * JULY 12-23 ISPRS 2004 Istanbul, Turkey. The XXth Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing carries the theme "Geo-Imagery Bridging Continents." See www.magister.tr. * JULY 25-29 GML Days...