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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...