GPS World articles from November 2007

GPS World archives from November 2007

Excerpt from LBS Insider newsletter: what's next for PNDs and handsets?(GPS World News on Your Target)(Excerpt)
November 1, 2007... Nokia's move to buy Chicago-based Navteq is the year's biggest deal for location-based services. The deal has led to much speculation about the future of handset-based LBS--and how it impacts such markets as portable navigation devices and...

Traffic report.(GPS World News on Your Target)
November 1, 2007... 65,058 unique visitors last month 117,886 e-newsletter subscribers

Hottest pages @ GPSWorld.com.(GPS World News on Your Target)
November 1, 2007... September 20-October 17, 2007 1 Buyers Guide 2007 Annual sourcing info for GPS-related products 2 White House Agrees to Remove Selective Availability 3 OnStar Alert Leads to Fatal Pursuit Near GPS World Office 4 ION Report:...

Full race-day coverage online: DARPA Urban Challenge.(GPS World News on Your Target)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Military & Government Editor Don Jewell will deliver live coverage of the DARPA Urban Challenge on Saturday, November 3, in Victorville, California. He'll be there when the robotic vehicles roar out of the starting gate, to see who has designed...

When opportunity signals.(OUT IN FRONT)
November 1, 2007... Di Qui's article on geoencryption with Loran, presented with co-authors Sherman Lo and Per Enge in this issue, represents to my knowledge the first article ever published in this magazine that is not about GPS or some other GNSS. Nor does it...

How accurate E911?(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I believe the story titled "FCC to Require Full E911 Adherence by 2012" would have been much more useful if it actually mentioned what the accuracy requirements are. --Chris Lund Technical Director, Honeywell Guidance and Navigation...

23 healthy or not.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... The magazine has received some queries about the October article interviewing Colonel Dave Madden, where he makes reference to SVN 23 (PRN 32). In particular, it quotes Colonel Madden as follows: "DJ: The 2d SOPS recently activated a...

Atomic clocks.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2007... I just read Don Jewell's newsletter column: "Atomic Clocks--So What?" Thanks for introducing the subject without all the quantum electronics heebie jeebie. I think it helps clarify it to the world. --Lee A. Mallette Manager, GPS...

Does anybody really know what accuracy is?(EXPERT ADVICE)
November 1, 2007... Does anybody really care? (With apologies to the rock group Chicago.) As we prepare for the upcoming publication of the 2008 GPS Receiver Survey in the January issue, I would like to direct everyone's attention back to the article by Frank...

Advisory board update.(Ivan Petrovski appointed director for Asia-Pacific )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... IVAN PETROVSKI has taken a new position as director for Asia-Pacific region for Switzerland-based NVS Technologies, a new company, which aims to bring a wide range of GNSS products to market, combining the experience of Russian NAVIS and...

Go faster, more, cheaper on GPS III.(THE SYSTEM)
November 1, 2007... Two leading GPS experts recommended key and fundamental changes in the GPS III program to the National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board. They urged the Department of Defense and the Air Force to focus on faster, more, cheaper: a commitment to...

IIR-17(M) launches.(THE SYSTEM)
November 1, 2007... The fourth IIR-M satellite rose from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 17. GPS IIR-17(M), built by Lockheed Martin, provides increased signal power, improved accuracy, enhanced encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities. The launch was the...

GNSS all over the world.(THE SYSTEM)(Conference notes)
November 1, 2007... At the 47th Civil Global Positioning System Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting, just prior to the ION GNSS Conference in Texas, attendees received these updates from around the globe. GLONASS. Sergey Revnivykh of the Russian Space...

We call him sir Richard now.(THE SYSTEM)(Richard Langley bestowed with Johannes Kepler lifetime achievement award )
November 1, 2007... The Institute of Navigation's (ION) Satellite Division awarded Richard Langley its Johannes Kepler lifetime achievement award on September 28 at the ION GNSS 2007 con-ference in Fort Worth, Texas. The Kepler Award honors an individual during...

Big acquisitions the order of the day.(THE BUSINESS)
November 1, 2007... At GPS World's Great Debate, held at the ION Conference in September, industry leaders discussed whether consolidation would lead to the disappearance of GPS suppliers, as they either get swallowed up by big chip manufacturers, or as sales of...

NavCom introduces RTK Land Survey bundle.(SURVEY & CONSTRUCTION)
November 1, 2007... In September, NavCom Technology Inc. took the wraps off its first bundled land-survey offering, the Land-Pak All-in-One RTK Land Survey Solution. Land-Pak combines NavCom's dual-frequency receiver with radio modems, a rugged data...

Rosum, Intel partner for TV-based LBS.(LOCATION-BASED SERVICES)
November 1, 2007... Rosum Corp. announced October 4 that it has signed a licensing and joint development agreement with Intel Corp. to enable indoor/outdoor detection of television broadcast signals for positioning and mobile location-based services (LBS). As...

U.S. Army selects GPS-guided Dragonfly chute.(MILITARY & GOVERNMENT)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The DragonFly system by Airborne Systems has been selected as the 10,000-pound Joint Precision Aerial Delivery System (JPADS) platform for the U.S. Army. DragonFly is a precision-guided parachute delivery system that uses GPS signals to...

OnStar unveils Stolen Vehicle Slowdown LBS.(AVIONICS & TRANSPORTATION)
November 1, 2007... General Motors' location-based services (LBS) subsidiary OnStar said October 9 that it has demonstrated technology that will gradually and safely slow down a stolen vehicle. OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown will allow advisors working with...

NemeriX debuts single-chip A-GPS for mobile handsets.(MASS MARKET OEM)
November 1, 2007... Swiss assisted GPS (A-GPS) chip maker NemeriX unveiled in October its fourth-generation navigation platform, the NemeriX NX4, which provides single-chip A-GPS, the company says. The modular, scalable, hosted, and stand-alone A-GPS platform...

QVC.(IN BRIEF)
November 1, 2007... Television shopping network QVC sold 51,000 Garmin nuvi 250Ws in 16 hours on October 6, the entire lot. The nuvi was billed as "Today's Special Value Item."

GeoSpatial Experts.(IN BRIEF)
November 1, 2007... On October 2, GeoSpatial Experts introduced the ArcPad Edition of its GPS-Photo Link photo-mapping software, designed primarily for mobile GIS users. The GPS-Photo Link ArcPad Edition automatically links digital photographs to existing or new...

GeoScopix Inc.(IN BRIEF)(Gator's usage)
November 1, 2007... GeoScopix Inc. said that the University of Florida's Gator, a stereoscopic, GPS-based digital geographic data manager, should be commercially available later this year. The Gator, developed and patented by the University of Florida, uses GPS...

Sky Detective Inc.(IN BRIEF)(company sells electronic prisoner monitoring device)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Sky Detective Inc. is now offering an ankle-worn GPS/CDMA-assisted monitoring device specifically for monitoring gang activity. The patent-pending device includes a rubber strap containing a built-in fiber optic wire that immediately notifies...

NovAtel wins Galileo receiver contract.(SYSTEM DESIGN & TEST)
November 1, 2007... Canada's NovAtel Inc. has received a contract from Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) worth $8.6 million ([euro]6.3 million) for the continued development of the ground reception chain (GRC) reference receiver for the proposed Galileo GNSS. ...

Galileo's market.(Leadership Talks)(interview with Pedro Pedreira)(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Pedro Pedreira (PP), executive director of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority, spoke with Alan Cameron (AC) during the Institute of Navigation GNSS conference in Forth Worth in September. AC: Now that the private part of the...

Let's go downtown! Let's go indoors! Pedestrian navigation in obstructed environments.(UTILITIES & COMMUNICATIONS)
November 1, 2007... Firefighters, rescue teams, and other special workers need hybrid navigation to perform safely and efficiently in GNSS signal-denied areas. This article analyzes step-detection algorithms, evaluates radar, GPS/EGNOS, and accelerators for...

Security for insecure times: geoencryption with Loran.(MILITARY & GOVERNMENT)
November 1, 2007... Location-based encryption can prevent stolen data from being decrypted outside a particular facility. Modernized Loran, hard to spoof and hard to jam, with good repeatable position accuracy and signal availability, shows strong potential for...

Super software: how software GNSS optimizes consumer devices.(MASS MARKET OEM)
November 1, 2007... Position tracking plays an increasingly critical role in differentiating products in the consumer electronics market. To bring GNSS functionality to consumer electronics applications, developers need to ruthlessly squeeze cost while maximizing...

ION GNSS 2007.(MEETING OF THE MINDS)(Conference notes)
November 1, 2007... In Fort Worth, Texas, September 25-28, GPS World staff and guest contributors posted live news reports and daily blogs, excerpted here. See full ION contents at www.gpsworld.com/IONblog * DAY 1 -- CGSIC MEETING The Civil Global...

Time for a better receiver: chip-scale atomic frequency references.(INNOVATION)
November 1, 2007... Atomic clocks and precision timing are at the core of almost every aspect of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). A GNSS receiver determines its position with respect to a subset of the constellation of orbiting satellites by measuring...

GPS-equipped mouse.(MASS MARKET OEM)
November 1, 2007... The Deluo MouseGPS transforms a laptop computer into a full-featured GPS navigation system by integrating an optical mouse with an Atmel ATR0635 (ANTARIS 4) with SuperSense GPS chipset, which tracks satellites on 16 parallel channels. The...

Pet tracker.(LOCATION-BASED SERVICES)(RoamEO GPS Tracking and Containment System for Pets)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The RoamEO GPS Tracking and Containment System for Pets by White Bear Technologies in co-operation with Essential Pet Products provides a realtime tracking system that can contain pets in a custom user-defined boundary, and track for up to a...

Full tilt GPS Navigator.(MASS MARKET OEM)
November 1, 2007... AT & T's First Windows Mobile 6 device, the AT & T Tilt, features the latest version of TeleNav GPS Navigator, which provides GPS-enabled turn-by-turn voice and on-screen driving or walking directions, color 3D moving maps, and traffic delay...

In-dash GPS/media player.(AVIONICS & TRANSPORTATION)
November 1, 2007... Eclipse and TomTom have created the AVN2210p, designed to provide superior sound quality with portable navigation. With the AVN2210p, a removable TomTom portable navigation device is part of the car's built-in stereo system, fitting flush in...

LAPD goes James Bond.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Los Angeles Police Department)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Los Angeles cops will be able to fire sticky GPS tracker devices at fleeing getaway cars starting next year, reports Wired Magazine. The StarChase Pursuit Management System (www.starchase.org) uses compressed-air laser-sighted launchers...

GPS shield aims for fast tsunami alerts.(GNSS technologies in the popular media)
November 1, 2007... A "GPS shield" that works in real time could save lives by quickly warning of potential tsunamis, according to New Scientist magazine. The German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) is being developed by a team led by Jorn...

No more sheepdogs?(GNSS technologies in the popular media)(Report)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Trusty sheepdogs and battered pick-up trucks may become a thing of the past for Australian farmers, reports the New Zealand Herald. Under the concept of "e-farming," landowners herd their sheep or cattle with the help of GPS sensors being...