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Author: GPS World Staff

  • Receiver Design for the Future

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, January 15, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Friday, January 15, 2016
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Group Publisher, GPS World and Geospatial Solutions
    Speaker: Greg Turetzky, Principal Engineer at Intel
    Summary: The compound annual growth rate of GNSS devices will continue, from its current 22 percent level to a robust 9 percent for the years 2016–2022, and heading for seven billion installed units by 2022. The design challenges for GNSS are to:

    • Take advantage of smaller geometries to achieve higher clock speeds, more memory, lower active power and smaller size, while reducing standby power from leakage;
    • Incorporate new methodologies in chip and system design; integrate multiple radios on a single die to reduce cost and size;
    • Integrate multiple radio sources into a single location solution;
    • Bring together a disparate value chain.

    The technology roadmaps embrace most modalities of positioning: GNSS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, and SBAS, and cross most platforms, including wearables.

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  • Global GNSS Market Trends & Forecasts: Highlights of the GSA GNSS Market Report 2015

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, April 16, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Friday, April 15, 2016
    Moderator: Tracy Cozzens, Managing Editor, GPS World and Geospatial Solutions
    Speakers: Gian Gherardo Calini, Head of Market Development, European GNSS Agency; Justyna Redelkiewicz Musial, Market Development Officer, European GNSS Agency; Peter Grognard, Director, Thales Alenia Space Belgium
    Summary: The fourth edition of the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA’s) GNSS Market Report is now available. The Report has become a key reference for organizations building their GNSS market strategies. Join us as we provide an overview of the report and its quantification of the GNSS market of today and the future. We’ll specifically look at the global GNSS market in terms of shipments, revenues and installed base of receivers, with a forecast up to 2023.

  • The Road to Driverless: Autonomous Vehicle Platforms, Sensors and Requirements

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, June 18, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Friday, June 17, 2016
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: John Fischer, Chief Technology Officer, Spectracom; Lisa Perdue, Applications Engineer, Spectracom; Hironori Sasaki
    Director of Solutions Architecture, Spectracom
    Summary: Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are now integrated in all luxury cars and moving into mainstream models. Although no driverless car is expected to operate freely on public roads for the next 10 years, some open test drives have already taken place, including one 100-mile highway cruise by a driverless Mercedes. This technology is currently restrained by legal issues and the lack of reliable nationwide mapping data — but the platforms are nearly ready to go. Join us as we explore the current state of affairs and the likely near-term future developments.

  • Street Smart: City Modeling and Other Geospatial Techniques in Urban Mapping and Navigation

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, July 16, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Thursday, July 16, 2016
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Claire Ellul, University College London; Paul Groves, University College London; Rahul Gupta, Spirent Communications; Gregory Moura, OKTAL Synthetic Environment
    Summary: Get a high-level overview of the latest enhancements to computerized geometric city models, which can help overcome data gaps and inaccuracies created by signal obstruction, to improve GNSS positioning in dense urban areas. The webinar focused on use of 3D mapping to aid GNSS in three different ways: shadow matching, height aiding and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) detection for conventional positioning.
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  • New Generation GNSS Solutions: Precise Positioning, Navigation & Applications

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, July 23, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Saturday, July 23, 2016
    Moderator: Eric Gakstatter, Contributing Editor, Geospatial Solutions & GPS World
    Speakers: Dr. Sunil Bisnath, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering at York University; Dr. Rodrigo Leandro, Director of Engineering, Hemisphere Rahul Gupta, Spirent Communications; Gregory Moura, OKTAL Synthetic Environment
    Summary: Correction augmentation technologies — the theme of this webinar — meet the growing need and opportunity for more accurate location and navigation information in an increasing number of applications where position data are deemed useful or critical. High-accuracy (i.e., few-centimeter) correction augmentation technologies can extend the accuracy capability of GNSS systems while maintaining the core concept of a GNSS system, which includes being available anytime and anywhere on Earth. In this webinar we discussed recent developments in high accuracy correction techniques, the current scenario for state-of-art solutions, as well as explore future technology developments for the coming years.

  • Timing, Time Transfer and Synchronization: New Applications and Techniques

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Saturday, October 29, 2016
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Edward Powers,GNSS and Network Time Transfer Operations Division Chief U.S. Naval Observatory; Ron Holm, Marketing Manager
    EndRun Technologies; Grace Xingxin Gao, Ph.D., Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Richard Foster, Ph.D., Sr. Business Development Manager, Microsemi Government Systems Microsemi Corporation
    Summary: Learn more about the current efforts behind – and changing demands to – keeping the nation’s timekeeping and synchronization infrastructure up to speed. We examined why that has become more critical than ever for the Internet of (Every)thing(s) and the nation’s economy. The panel also shed light on cutting-edge time transfer research, and dove into new applications and techniques for use in metrology, defense, communications and aerospace.

  • Designing, Building and Testing UAVs

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Saturday, November 19, 2016
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Lasse Klingbeil, Ph.D., Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, University of Bonn; Jeffrey Fayman, Ph.D.,VP, Planning & Development, Geodetics; Florent Hennart, GNSS specialist, Airbus Defence & Space; Jan Van Hees, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Septentrio
    Summary: A university research team and three commercial manufacturers shared their first-hand experiences in — and expert insight into — the creation of unmanned aerial vehicles.They presented their operational UAV designs, discussed the project requirements, aspects of construction and integration of sensors — and also shared test results from their recorded flights.

  • Introduction to Using UAVs for Mapping

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, December 17, 2015
    On-Demand Available Until: Saturday, December 17, 2016
    Sponsor: Applanix
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Eric Gakstatter Contributing Editor, GPS World, Geospatial Solutions; Marko Peljhan
    Co-founder, C-ASTRAL; Doug Long, Strategic Marketing Director, Applanix, a Trimble Company
    Summary: Private operators and commercial UAV/mapping service providers will cover the basics of UAV operation for mapping, showing results of their work and giving tips for successful project completion.

  • GNSS Receiver Design: New MEMS Components, Optimal Search Strategies

    Broadcast Date: January 21, 2016
    On-Demand Available Until: January 21, 2017
    Sponsor: NovAtel
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Mark Petovello, Professor, University of Calgary; Esther Anyaegbu, Senior Systems Architect, Intel Mobile Communications; Matthias Overbeck, Group Manager of the Precise GNSS Receiver Program at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits; Sandy Kennedy, Director and Chief Engineer of Core Cards, NovAtel Inc.
    Summary: The world of GNSS receiver design is a bit like a chocolate cake in the oven: rich, dense, and constantly expanding. To cover our topic adequately within only 60 minutes, we encompass a number of new and not necessarily related approaches and research areas. We’ll have three or four speakers, each presenting for 10 to 12 minutes, leaving a good quarter hour for your questions and their expert responses. This webinar will cover MEMS Oscillators on the Move and Optimal Search Strategies in a Multi-constellation Environment.

  • Antenna Applications: From Jammer Hunting to Signal Rejection, and More

    Broadcast Date: February 18, 2016
    On-Demand Available Until: February 18, 2017
    Sponsor: NovAtel
    Summary: Our expert panel will discuss the use of RF detection system-equipped UAV jammer hunters, the performance of null-steering techniques for GNSS receivers and more in this one-hour webinar.
    Speakers: Adrien Perkins, Stanford University and James T. Curran, Ph.D., European Commission

  • Signal Simulation and Testing: Fundamentals and New Frontiers

    Broadcast Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016
    On-Demand Available Until: March 18, 2017
    Sponsor: Spectracom
    Summary: Our expert panel will cover fundamentals for good testing, case studies on specific signal simulation projects and special considerations for multi-constellation performance.
    Speakers: Julian Thomas, Racelogic; John Fischer, Spectracom; and John Pottle, Spirent Positioning, Spirent Federal and Spirent