GPS World articles from November 2002

GPS World archives from November 2002

Editorial Advisory Board update.(Akio Yasuda on the Editorial Advisory Board of GPS World)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... Akio Yasuda is a professor at Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine and chairman of the GPS Society of Japan Institute of Navigation. He was recently named vice president of the Japan GPS Council, and in that capacity he now replaces...

GPS, Galileo draw closer. (Washington View).(Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system)
November 1, 2002... Slight shifts within the European Union (EU) and increasing interest from North American manufacturers and users are gradually opening doors to cooperation on satellite navigation. Discussion at the podium and in the hallways of the recent...

Future drivers: autonomy, intelligence in robot competition. (Integration Challenge).(Robots compete in in the 2002 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition)
November 1, 2002... Robots designed and built by student teams from several engineering schools compete annually in a GPS Navigation Challenge, where they must combine vision systems and obstacle detection with precise navigation to programmed waypoints. The...

A global time transfer assessment. (New IGS Clock Products).(International GPS Service )
November 1, 2002... The International GPS Service (IGS) has a new suite of clock products available and is continuing to improve their usefulness for practical time and frequency transfer applications. In this month's column, Jim Ray and Ken Senior describe...

CMC, Honeywell share award. (Industry Bytes).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... A U.S.-Canadian partnership has jointly developed and marketed a new generation of GPS-enabled cockpit systems adopted by 70 percent of the world's commercial air transport carriers. The partnership consists of the Global Navigation System...

Calendar 2002.(Calendar)
November 1, 2002... NOVEMBER 12-15 NavSat 2002 Nice, France. The conference covers aviation, intelligent transport systems, maritime, rail, personal mobility, security and dual use applications, geodesy, timing, and other topics. Contact NavSat 2002,...