GPS World articles from May 2008

GPS World archives from May 2008

Re-up for Leaders.(OUT IN FRONT)
May 1, 2008... Ome of little faith. I had thought, after concluding this month's 50+ Leaders to Watch article, to quietly wrap it up and put it away on the shelf. Not to be continued next year. We've had a three-year run, and it's been a good one. But how...

Joint control of GPS.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
May 1, 2008... My experience with military programs like GPS, and separately with the FAA programs, leaves me concerned with the long-term success of a civilian agency directing the future of GPS. The Air Force may not always make the absolute right decisions...

SiRF suits.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
May 1, 2008... Typical class-action suits against technology companies never have merit. Getting all worked up is a waste of time. As seasoned management, you just look at it as a tax on business. The vultures are over-head waiting for you to enter their...

Do we have data?(EXPERT ADVICE)
May 1, 2008... It seems that every week a new and usually glowing market report appears on GPS. As a marketing professional, I naturally take a keen interest in the data that can be gleaned therein. Such reports are an essential source of information for both...

Advisory board update.(EXPECT ADVICE)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Vidal Ashkenazi, CEO of Nottingham Scientific Ltd., delivered the keynote address at the European Navigation Conference in Toulouse on April 22. His talk focused on current and potential benefits of all space technologies, including GNSS, Earth...

GPS III contract award now a reality -- ?(THE SYSTEM)
May 1, 2008... Late-breaking events are taking place this month, and some not-yet-broken news may surface after press time but before you receive this issue. At the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, senior spokesmen from competitors Lockheed...

Raytheon scores MUE contract.(THE SYSTEM)
May 1, 2008... Raytheon Co. has won a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract from the GPS Wing to complete the development and certification of next-generation GPS receivers. Under the Modernized User Equipment (MUE) program, circuit-card technology will...

Galileo serves second course.(THE SYSTEM)
May 1, 2008... The European GNSS rapidly gathered momentum in April, with a second satellite launched on April 27 (the scheduled date, not yet arrived as this magazine goes to press), a second interface control document (ICD) issued for comment, and a new...

Near-space location boost.(THE BUSINESS)
May 1, 2008... Oil and gas monitoring for pipeline corrosion is getting a boost from hot-air balloons equipped with GPS and wireless monitors, courtesy of Space Data Corporation. For the past four years, Arizona-based Space Data has used classic weather...

Next month ... you start leading ... with TRIUMPH.(TAVAD)(Company overview)
May 1, 2008... TRIUMPH 1... The RTK Package Based on the TRIUMPH Chip, TRIUMPH-i is a fully integrated package ready for your demanding jobs, offering precise and automatic performance beyond anything that you have experienced so far. An elegant,...

Jules Verne's journey.(SPACE)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... GPS can be used for more than terrestrial navigation, as the European Space Agency's (ESA) first unmanned automatic transfer vehicle, Jules Verne, has proven. The Jules Verne docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on April 3 in...

Mapping handheld introduced.(SURVEY & CONSTRUCTION)
May 1, 2008... Hemisphere GPS' Crescent technology is now available for handheld mapping. The new XF 100 series DGPS receivers for ruggedized handheld computers provide an integrated solution for the collection of position data with greater accuracy than...

RTK crops up in precision Ag.(BUSINESS OUTLOOK)
May 1, 2008... Most precision agriculture users have settled for 1-meter accuracy using GPS, made possible with the reliable and convenient corrections provided by WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System). GPS/GNSS is important to key areas in agriculture,...

Safety afoot: field testing of a pedestrian alert system.(AVIONICS & TRANSPORTATION)
May 1, 2008... Most vehicles sold in the future will carry a GPS receiver, a processor, and a wireless data link. Together these provide most of the hardware needed for a pedestrian alert system (PAS) that can help avoid accidents, minimizing equipage costs...

50 + leaders to watch faching the challenges of 2008/2009.(GPS WORLD EXCLUSIVE)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... John F. Raquet Director | Advanced Navigation Technology Center, Air Force Institute of Technology "GPS has shown us the value of navigation, and more and more we are assuming that our navigation systems will just work. However, there...

Making a difference with GPS: time differences for kinematic positioning with low-cost receivers.(INNOVATION)
May 1, 2008... GPS is rapidly maturing into a system that provides positioning information to wide range of civil users. This phenomenon is driving both the rapid growth of location-based applications and the development of receiver technology targeting the...

Automatic boom section control.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... BoomPilot provides automatic boom section control for agricultural sprayers and spreader equipment to minimize costly chemical consump tion by reducing overlap. BoomPilot records the GPS location and the location of the applied areas in a...

Constellation simulator.
May 1, 2008... Spirent's new high-end simulator platform, the GSS8000, enables users to integrate up to three constellations in a single simulator. Spirent's existing GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo solutions are consolidated onto the GSS8000 platform with the...

Timing module.
May 1, 2008... The LEA-5T GPS module is capable of a compen sated time pulse accuracy of up to 15 nanoseconds. The module is designed for synchronization in telecom networks, such as UMTS, CDMA, or the ChineseTD-CDMA. It can also be used for applications...

Photo watermarks.(Pictrack)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Pictrack is a geotagging device that watermarks photos with street addresses and exports them to image-sharing websites. The geotagger uses a pager-sized GPS receiver carried by users while taking photos; the receiver sensitivity is -158 dBm....

Fishermen armed against pirates.(SEEN+HEARD)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... GPS units may help Guyanese authorities fight an increase in pirate attacks off the country's southeastern coast, reports the Jamaica Gleaner. Guyana's Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud is urging fishermen to regis- ter for a voluntary...

A peek in time.(SEEN+HEARD GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Mom-and-pop diners off the beaten path have an influx of new customers because of GPS use, reports the Pekin (lllinois) Daily Times. "We had two couples come in one night and since we're small we know a lot of people who come in," said...

Caching in.(SEEN+HEARD GNSS technologies in the popular media)
May 1, 2008... Two Wyoming teachers plan to use GPS to help teach their elementary school students about geology and other earth sciences, and have scored a Qwest Foundation grant for their efforts, reports the Star-Tribune of Casper, Wyoming. Teachers...