GPS World articles from October 2001

GPS World archives from October 2001

The view from here.
October 1, 2001... Apocalypse 911 "Limited only by our imaginations." People like to say that about uses of GPS, or what someone would do if they won the lottery, or a child's options when released from school into an endless summer. But sometimes...

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD UPDATE.
October 1, 2001... This month we welcome Terence McGurn, Mario Proietti, and Luc Tytgat to GPS Worlds Editorial Advisory Board. Terence McGurn now works as an independent consultant to U.S. corporations that support the Department of Defense and the...

Volpe Center Report Assesses GPS Vulnerability.
October 1, 2001... A long-awaited assessment of the vulnerability of GPS-reliant transportation infrastructure recommends jettisoning the idea that GPS can serve as a sole-source system for critical positioning and timing applications. Instead, service...

ION Carries On with GPS Event.(Institute of Navigation)
October 1, 2001... The September 11 closure of the U.S. air traffic system in the wake of attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prevented more than half of the expected participants from reaching the Institute of Navigation (ION) GPS-2001...

EC/ESA's Galileo Progress.
October 1, 2001... The Galileo program under development by the European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with technical work, contracting, and organizational changes as a December decision deadline approaches. The European...

Athletic Analysis With Racing Heart.
October 1, 2001... Downhill skiers enter a different dimension on the racecourse, but they are still subject to the laws of physics. A new Swiss system integrates GPS, video, and biosensors for precise position, velocity and heart-rate measurement, helping...

GPS Guidance ncef for Projectiles.(Tutorial)
October 1, 2001... This article reveals... * how to harden a GPS receiver to survive firing from a gun * how to minimize the receiver's acquisition search time * how to increase tolerance to jamming Like any organization, the military...

Explorations of the Wilderness: Making Maps With GPS.
October 1, 2001... In this month's column, we look at one of the growing number of interfaces between non-expert users and GPS technology ft illustrates how a layperson can readily create some valuable maps using GPS, a task that would have been impossible lust...

ISP Promotes AVL Application.
October 1, 2001... Internet service provider (ISP) EarthLink is promoting an open-source application development competition using the company's prototype Spark GPS-based automatic vehicle location (AVL) kit. Open to Linux, XML, Java, wireless and Web...

Thales Names New Team.
October 1, 2001... Thales Navigation has announced selection of Dean Senner as president and CEO and Henry Gaillard as chief operating officer, who will head the group's activities out of the recently acquired Magellan Corporation offices in Santa Clara,...

New Leader, IEC Receiver.(Interstate Electronics Corp)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Interstate Electronics Corporation, a subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corporation, announced a leadership change and rolled out its next generation of military GPS receivers at the ION-GPS exhibition. Robert Huffman has succeeded Richard...

Tiny TIM From [micro]-blox.
October 1, 2001... Thalwil, Switzerland-based [micro]-blox (pronounced "moo blocks") has introduced a GPS receiver "macro-component" that can be processed like a single chip component. The TIM is a self-contained receiver providing GPS signal processing...

New PLGR From Rockwell.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... Rockwell Collins has developed the next generation Precision Lightweight Global Positioning System Receiver (PLGR III), which is reportedly the first to be equipped with a selective availability anti-spoofing module (SAASM). First...

Valence Semi's CMOS Receiver.(VS7001 GPS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... A new entry into the electronics manufacturing marketplace, Valence Semiconductor has launched the VS7001 GPS for GPS applications as its first product. A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) receiver front end aimed at...

Topcon in 3-D.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Topcon Positioning Systems Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, has launched 3D-GPS, an automatic three-dimensional OPS grade control system for bulldozers. By combining a variety of Topcon GPS receivers with digital plan data,...

Honeywell MEMS, Sensors.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Honeywell (Phoenix, Arizona) announced an agreement with the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command to develop a miniature, G-hardened inertial measurement unit (IMU) and guidance navigation unit (GNU) for guided tactical weapons. The...

NavCom Inks Offshore Pact.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... NavCom Technology, Inc., a subsidiary of Deere & Company and C&C Technologies, Inc., an international survey company, have entered into an exclusive agreement to supply NavCom's StarFire differential GPS receivers and services worldwide for...

BMW Drives To Motorola.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Motorola has signed a $100 million deal with BMW to deliver its telematics solution for Europe, the United States and Japan. The Motorola system combines embedded automobile electronics, wireless communications systems, and GPS location...

CMC, Grumman.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Northrup Grumman's Inertial Navigation Systems Division, formerly Litton Aero Products, has signed an agreement with CMC Electronics Inc. to market Northrop's inertial navigation and attitude systems with CMC's Right Management Systems and...

Fastrax Ltd.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Fastrax Ltd., of Helsinki, Finland, has secured [euro]6 million in its second round of venture capital funding, led by Finnish firm CapMan Capital Management Oy. Founded in 1999, Fastrax offers the iTrax01 GPS receiver module and the iSuite...

SiGEM.(appoints Paul Bennett president and COO)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... SiGEM, has appointed Paul Bennett president and chief operating officer. Bennett, currently a director of SiGEM and managing director of SiGEM's U.K. operations, will be responsible for daily operations and growth strategy Bennett is one of...

Parthus Technologies Plc.(announces increase in licensing revenue)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Parthus Technologies Plc., of Dublin, Ireland, announced a 23 percent increase in second quarter licensing revenue for the six months that ended June 30. In the second quarter, total revenue increased 30 percent year-on-year to $10.2 million,...

CORRECTIONS.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2001... Ronald R. Hatch, recently elected president of the Institute of Navigation, will also continue to serve in his capacity as director of navigation systems engineering, principal, and co-founder of NavCom Technologies. Takayoshi Oda was...

GPS and Aviation Safety.
October 1, 2001... U.S. federal agencies, aircraft and avionics manufacturers, airlines, and research centers are brainstorming ways to prevent a repeat of the tragic events of September 11, in which highjacked aircraft were used as missiles. Under these new...

Differential GPS receiver.(NAVMAN H-Field DGPS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... The NAVMAN H-Field DGPS contains a 12-channel GPS receiver with a Conexant chipset and a high-gain antenna, and a high-sensitivity differential beacon receiver with an "H-Field" toroidal antenna for immunity from electrical noise. No ground...

Two-receiver GPS survey system.(Thales Navigation ProMark 2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... Thales Navigation (formerly Magellan) offers the ProMark2 GPS survey system. A two-receiver configuration, the system comes bundled with software that reportedly delivers a combination of post-processed, centimeter-level static survey...

GPS/GIS data collection receiver.(Leica/IBM GS5, GS5+)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... The GS5 and GS5+, developed jointly by Leica and IBM, provide a turnkey "plug and play" solution for GIS data acquisition. Based on IBM's Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technology, the receiver provides direct sampling of the GPS signal without the...

Receiver Module.(U-blox GPS-MSIE)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... [micro]-blox offers the 12-channel GPS-MSIE GPS receiver module for use in mobile products with low-power requirements. With dimensions of 30X50X7.7 millimeters, the module incorporates SiRFTechnology SiRFStar GPS chips. According to the...

GPS module for PDAs.(Royaltek RGP-2000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... RoyalTek has introduced the RGP-2000 GPS module for Palm computers. It contains a 12-channel receiver, a built-in antenna, and WAAS and U.S. Coast Guard DGPS signal processors. The unit's sensitivity (-175 dBW) and low power consumption...

GPS board.(Nexian GPCore 34)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... The GPCore 34 is a OPS signal processing board composed of a Navicom GPS chipset, a receiver, and a controller. It can be inserted or integrated into a number of devices to add location detection functionality The 12-channel receiver uses a...

Software Receiver Toolkits.(from Data Fusion)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Data Fusion Corporation provides intermediate frequency GPS software receiver toolkits in MATLAB, C and C/DSP configurations. Each toolkit contains a library of files and programs to implement IF GPS baseline receivers, enabling users to...

Tracking transceiver.(Intuicom SmartGPS Tracker)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2001... The SmartGPS Tracker from Intuicom Inc. is a transceiver that combines GPS positioning with wireless data transmission to provide location updates every second. The Tracker was developed for automatic vehicle location, dispatch, transit, and...

NovAtel Inc.(stock buyback)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... NovAtel Inc. announced that its Board of Directors authorized the company to repurchase up to three percent of the outstanding common shares issued, because management considers the market price of its common shares to be undervalued.