GPS World articles from March 2008

GPS World archives from March 2008

Excerpt from the system design & test newsletter; Exclusive interview: Col. Crews addresses anomaly.(GPS World News on Your Target)(Interview)(Excerpt)
March 1, 2008... In October 2007, a government and civilian contractor team of experts responded to a significant anomaly in the GPS constellation. This upload anomaly caused a great deal of concern in the international user community. To get the real story,...

Traffic report.(GPS World News on Your Target)
March 1, 2008... 73,261 unique visitors last month 126,820 e-newsletter subscribers

Hottest pages @ GPSWorld.com.(GPS World News on Your Target)(Brief article)(List)
March 1, 2008... January 14-February 14, 2008 1 GPS or Wi-Fi Positioning? Both, Says IMS 2 SiRF Lands in Court Following Q4 Earnings Report 3 Russia Decommissions Five Unhealthy GLONASS Satellites 4 Garmin Releases Few Details on Nuviphone,...

Can't make that event?(GPS World News on Your Target)
March 1, 2008... GPSWorld.com provides timely coverage of important GNSS events. Recent events covered: * Munich Satellite Navigation Summit * Mobile world Congress * Consumer Electronics Show * DARPA Urban Challenge * ION GNSS 2007 ...

Leap of faith.(OUT IN FRONT)
March 1, 2008... In the lofty Court Church of All Saints within the Bavarian Royal Family's Residential Palace, where once church prelates sermonized to the Kings Ludwig, Mad and not mad, tonight the high priesthood of the Galileo program lashed on the...

Machine control.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... I have just read your piece on 3D machine control [Survey & Construction e-newsletter, January 16, by Eric Gakstatter]. I can guarantee you that the same surveyor, engineer, construction company argument has been raging here in Australia for...

eLORAN.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... I just read the February 9 article on LORAN [Navigate! daily e-newsletter]. I realize it was a short article, but I did not see a reference to a couple of communities that are interested in LORAN and I believe depend on its continued...

Military review.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... Really liked your discussion of GPS in the review of "Global Positioning System--Systems Engineering Case Study" and have downloaded the case study [Military & Government e-newsletter, January 23, by Don Jewell]. I always get a kick out of your...

Multi-source PNT.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... I just read your column in the January issue ["Opportunities Abound," Out in Front]. Your message is spot on. That is also one of the most significant outcomes of the national architecture effort that was briefed at the ION National Technical...

GLONASS business prospects.(EXPERT ADVICE)(Company overview)
March 1, 2008... Similar in many aspects to GPS, GLONASS has performed much less successfully on a commercial scale, failing--so far--to create significant business worldwide. Today, however, the commercialization of GLONASS has taken a new and more promising...

Advisory board update.(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Terry Moore, director of the University of Nottingham's Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG), will help oversee a new, 9-million pound (UK) satnav research facility founded by the University and the East Midlands...

Budget rose: eLORAN, NDGPS live another day.(THE SYSTEM)
March 1, 2008... Everything old is eventually new again--that could be said of LORAN. Or perhaps, like clothing styles, proponents of LORAN just had to wait long enough, and it became fashionable again. LORAN has been given $34.5 million in the president's...

JAVAD GNSS unveils new survey products.(SURVEY & CONSTRUCTION)
March 1, 2008... JAVAD GNSS unveiled its own brand of GNSS products in February, including the TRIUMPH chip; OEM boards; TRIUMPH-1 and TRIUMPH-4X (Cluster RTK) GNSS receivers; six antenna types; software applications including Giodis, Justin, and Tracy; and its...

Spirent tests A-GPS for LBS.(LOCATION-BASED SERVICES)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Spirent Communications (Crawley, United Kingdom) has made available of two new capabilities for its UMTS Location Test Solution (ULTS): enhanced testing of Secure User Plane (SUPL) and WCDMA Signaling Conformance testing. Spirent has...

From IMU/GNSS data to a full 3D history.(RESOURCES)(GNSS Aided Navigation and Tracking: Inertially Augmented or Autonomous )(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... A new NavtechGPS book by James L. Farrell provides several flight-validated formulations and algorithms not currently in use because of their originality. By exploiting more modern capabilities and insights, inertial processing is dramatically...

California highway tests showcase traffic solution.(AVIONICS & TRANSPORTATION)
March 1, 2008... Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information using GPS enabled mobile devices In a February road test, 100 cars equipped with the GPS-enabled Nokia N95, and driven by students from the University of California--Berkeley...

SiRF unveils new multimedia platform; deals with stock drop.(MASS MARKET OEM)
March 1, 2008... SiRF Technology made headlines in February, and not only because of its sleek new multifunction hardware platform, SiRFprima. The company's stock lost half of its value following an ugly quarterly report, spurring speculation by analysts...

Marines pick Rockwell Collins for sky-diving Nav.(MILITARY & GOVERNMENT)
March 1, 2008... The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Rockwell Collins to provide more than 3,000 ParaNav units, a helmet-mounted navigation system for parachutists, the company announced in February. ParaNav is a personal, GPS-based, flight management system...

European Navigation Conference one of five events.(EVENTS)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... In April, France is hosting the European Navigation Conference--Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ENC-GNSS) and the European Forum for Time and Frequency (EFTF). The key players in the Midi-Pyrenees region decided that these two gatherings...

ION conference focuses on electronic technologies.(EVENTS)(Institute of Navigation )(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... The Institute of Navigation (ION) is hosting two upcoming conferences. The Position Location and Navigation Symposium, PLANS 2008, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Monterey, California, May 6-8, 2008, with pre-conference...

U.S. Institute of Navigation.(INBRIEF)
March 1, 2008... The U.S. Institute of Navigation (ION) has a new Executive Committee and Council, installing Chris Hegarty, director of Spectrum Management of the MITRE Corporation as president, Mikel Miller, technical director for the Advanced Guidance...

Magellan has unveiled MobileMapper 6, a handheld GPS/GIS receiver designed for low-cost yet professional GIS field data collection.(INBRIEF)
March 1, 2008... Magellan has unveiled MobileMapper 6, a handheld GPS/GIS receiver designed for low-cost yet professional GIS field data collection. It features 2.5-meter, real-time accuracy with SBAS corrections, according to Magellan, which anticipates the...

DENSO Corporation will begin tests of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems on public roads in Abashiri, Japan in April using GPS positioning.(INBRIEF)
March 1, 2008... DENSO Corporation will begin tests of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems on public roads in Abashiri, Japan in April using GPS positioning. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication, which allows vehicles to interact with each other via radio...

Get the picture?(BUSINESS OUTLOOK)
March 1, 2008... Recent achievements of GPS receiver manufacturers such as Air Semiconductors, SiRF, Qualcomm, u-blox, Glonav, and Geotate (NXP Software's spin-off) are finally paving the way for intelligent integration of GPS in digital cameras. These...

High precision at a new level.(Leadership Talks)(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Javad Ashjaee (JA), chief executive officer and president of JAVAD GNSS, spoke with us from his Moscow office on February 5. The previous day, JAVAD GNSS unveiled a line of GNSS products, including its TRIUMPH chip, OEM boards, TRIUMPH-1 and...

It's a wild, wild, wireless world: how location plays in the U.S. market.(UTILITIES & COMMUNICATIONS)
March 1, 2008... Once we understand wireless carriers' structure, operating model, and financial drivers, then plans and prospects for location-based services will become more apparent. Much hinges on a spectrum auction now underway, expected to garner $20...

Dear diary: travel behavior gathered with high-sensitivity GPS.(AVIONICS & TRANSPORTATION)(Global Positioning System)
March 1, 2008... How do you increase capacity of transportation systems without new construction? Through improved planning. Gathering data on who is traveling where, when, and why is being made possible through the use of the Global Positioning System...

Improving long-range RTK: getting a better handle on the biases.(INNOVATION)
March 1, 2008... Biases and errors such as satellite orbit error and atmospheric signal refraction are the primary limiting factors in successful long-baseline, real-time kinematic (RTK) style processing of GPS measurements--either in real-time or...

Cell phones to thwart terrorists.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)
March 1, 2008... Researchers at Purdue University of West Lafayette are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological "dirty bombs"...

No more lost mail?(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(TrackingtheWorld)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... A California-based GPS developer, TrackingtheWorld, is producing GPS-equipped envelope inserts designed to help the U.S. Postal Service detect bottlenecks, reports Popular Science. The "letter logger" insert, equipped with a low-power u-blox...

Child's play.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that GPS can be used to demonstrate how children as young as three find their way around, reports vnunet.com. Previous research has suggested that humans don't use landmarks to orient...