GPS World articles from March 2003

GPS World archives from March 2003

Out with the new. (The View from Here).
March 1, 2003... Sometimes regime change doesn't work out the way you expected. For example, during the eight years of the Clinton administration, I often heard from partisans of the opposition party how much better things would be for GPS if only a...

The hunt for RFI. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2003... These devices [television antennas profiled in January, 2003 GPS World article] can also interfere with specialized mobile radio (SMR) systems. We have a cell site near Mission Bay in San Diego. A few months ago we started getting interference...

GPS budget slashed. (Washington View).
March 1, 2003... With some things it is best to get straight to the point. The President, at the suggestion of the Air Force, is requesting no money for GPS Ill for the next budget cycle, Fiscal Year 2004 (FY04). The budget for GPS III for FY05 is being...

FCC OKs UWB uses: if interference deemed 'unintentional'. (Global View).(ultra-wideband)
March 1, 2003... In a potentially damaging blow to GPS industry and users, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Memorandum Opinion and Order authorizing operations of ultra-wideband (UWB) devices, and denied a petition from manufacturers...

Draper award honors GPS pair. (Global View).(Ivan Getting and Bradford Parkinson )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ivan Getting and Bradford Parkinson were awarded the 2003 Draper Prize in recognition of their roles in GPS development. They received gold medals and a monetary award at a February 16 National Academy of Engineering ceremony in Washington,...

New birds fly for Glonass, GPS. (Global View).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Three new Glonass satellites went into orbit on December 25,2002, and were declared operational in late January of this year. A GPS IIR satellite rose on January 29 and was declared usable on February 18. The new Glonass craft bring that...

Driving the line multi-sensor monitoring for mobile mapping.
March 1, 2003... A new system integrating GPS, inertial navigation, and a high-speed digital camera fulfills transportation agency needs for precise surveying of highway center and edge lines, while slashing costs and production time -- and increasing crew...

Mobile telephony: testing a high sensitivity GPS receiver in weak signal environments. (Challenge Design).
March 1, 2003... A team of academic and commercial researchers at the University of Calgary investigates how physical environment affects GPS signal reception and how to model those effects for laboratories designing integrated mobile phones In the United...

Pedestrian ITS in Japan: Pseudolites and GPS. (Integration Challenge).(Intelligent Transportation System for visually impaired pedestrians)
March 1, 2003... Pseudolites offer one solution to the problem of GPS signal blockage indoors and in obstructed areas. This article describes the efforts of a Japanese team to develop an Intelligent Transportation System for visually impaired pedestrians A...

Fuzzy logic and GPS benefitting from uncertainty. (Innovation).
March 1, 2003... The complexity of GPS requires complex models. However, even the most sophisticated functional and stochastic models used for data processing are not perfect. For example, the models of atmospheric propagation delay, multipath effects, and...

E911 study on AGPS: cites captive CDMA market, slams TDOA. (GPS Inside).(assisted GPS technology; time difference of arrival solutions )
March 1, 2003... A recent study concludes that assisted GPS (AGPS) technology for code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular networks holds the most promise for E911 implementation, along with enhanced observed time difference (EOTD) technology for global...

NovAtel has CMC OEM line, new generation. (GPS Inside).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... NovAtel Inc. of Calgary Alberta, Canada, signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire CMC Electronics Inc.'s GPS OEM product line. The agreement will extend NovAtel's current high-performance L1 and L1/L2 product line into the mid-level L1...

FastraX ups ware for iTrax02. (Launches).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... FastraXLtd. of Helsinki, Finland, has released firmware version 1.08 for its iTrax02 GPS receiver: The upgrade includes iLogger, with autonomous logging of up to 40,000 position fixes into embedded flash memory for fleet management and other...

XEMICS offers new GPS chip. (Launches).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Swiss fabless semiconductor company XEMICS has introduced a line of GPS chips based on Trimble's FirstGPS architecture. XEMICS, headquartered in Neuchatel, Switzerland, recently paired with Silicon & Software Systems Ltd., an electronics...

u-blox receiver with Antaris chip. (Launches).(TIM-LP GPS macrocomponent)
March 1, 2003... The first receiver based on the Antaris chipset collaboration between Atmel Corporation of Heilbronn, Germany and u-blox of Thaiwil, Switzerland comes from the latter company, as the TIM-LP GPS macrocomponent. Targeting GPS implementation in...

SiRF gets more AGPS, Enuvis. (Deals).(assisted GPS technology)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... SiRF Technology, Inc. will acquire Enuvis, Inc. of South San Francisco, California. Enuvis, a three-year-old company offering assisted GPS (AGPS) technology, has successfully trialed its Urban GPS pure software approach with wireless carriers...

GPSOne: ten million strong. (GPS Inside).(Qualcomm's hybrid assisted GPS technology)
March 1, 2003... Qualcomm Incorporated of San Diego, California, announced that more than 10 million of its gpsOne-enabled devices are now in commercial use in Japan, South Korea, and the United States. The company claimed that gpsOne technology has become the...

Spirent Federal M, L5 upgrades. (Deals).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Holloman Air Force Base exercised options for the pseudo Mcode and L5 upgrades with Spirent Federal Systems in Yorba Linda, California. Along with Spirent's earlier L2C upgrade, these upgrades will bring Spirent's line of GPS satellite signal...

Septentrio in Galileo receiver. (Deals).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The European Space Agency (ESA) selected a consortium including Septentrio of Leuven, Belgium, IfEN GmbH of Poing, Germany, and M3 Systems of Toulouse, France, for the first phase of development for the Galileo ground segment reference...

Sarantel in funds. (Deals).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Antenna manufacturer Sarantel of Wellingborough, UK, has raised [pounds sterling]3.5 million ($5.7 million) in an investment round led by U.K. high-tech venture capital investors. The company will use the funding for marketing and introducing...

RF Micro Devices. (Industry Bytes).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... RF Micro Devices of Greensboro, North Carolina, reported third quarter fiscal 2003 financial results for the period ending December 31, 2002. Revenue increased 45 percent to $145.8 million over the corresponding FY02 quarter, and 21.8 percent...

Applanix. (Industry Bytes).(POS LV product line )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Applanix of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada announced that its POS LV product line now features inertially-aided real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning. The POS LV products reportedly reacquire RTK lock within seconds after an outage, and can...

Events.(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... Munich SatNav Summit This telematics-oriented conference in Munich, Germany, March 24-26, covers satnav system developments, market developments and testbeds, commercialization, telecommunications, transport, and environmental monitoring....

Calendar 2003.(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... MARCH 24-26 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit Munich, Germany. The telematics-oriented conference covers sat- nay system developments, market developments and testbeds, commercialization, telecommunications, transport, and...