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  • Spoofing, Detection, and Navigation Vulnerability

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, September 18, 2014
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Group Publisher, GPS World and Geospatial Solutions
    Speakers: Todd E. Humphreys, Director, Radionavigation Laboratory, University of Texas; Mark L. Psiaki, Professor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
    Summary: The threat of deceptive signal spoofing is a key element of cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism. The ongoing effort, vital to defense, government security, and all forms of navigation and tracking, to differentiate between real and fake GNSS signals gets an up-close and personal look from two leading researchers in the field, Mark L. Psiaki and Todd E. Humphreys. Our speakers will also expand the topic to address other vulnerabilities of navigation, collision avoidance, and timing systems, for example, weaknesses in aviation’s ADS-B protocol and the vulnerability of automotive radar systems.

  • New Frontiers in Unmanned Flight: Hey You, UAV!

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, May 21, 2015
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Donald Chance Mark Jr., Aviation Attorney, Fafinski Mark & Johnson; Tony Murfin, Professional OEM & UAV Editor, GPS World; James Spicer
    UAV Researcher, Stanford University; Adrien Perkins, UAV Researcher, Stanford GPS Laboratory; Peter Cosyn, Director of Research & Development, Gatewing, a Trimble company
    Summary: Explosive growth in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market segment and an unsettled regulatory framework make for a confusing picture. Our experts will clarify the confusion, explain product design trends and describe in detail the operation of one new micro-UAV in particular. With the industry poised for the opening of the regulation floodgates to address a growing commercial demand, we will hear from developers, both independent and at large GNSS companies, and from a legal expert who will discuss today’s and tomorrow’s likely regulatory framework. Attendees also will learn how robust, cost-effective Hybrid GNSS Technologies offer unique capabilities for UAV navigation in environments where traditional GPS receivers may fail.
    Tony Murfin answers submitted questions in this post-webinar report.

  • New Product Trends in UAV, Survey, Mapping, and Geospatial Data Collection and Analysis

    Sponsored by: NavCom
    Broadcast date: Thursday, October 16, 2014
    On-Demand Available Until: Friday, October 16, 2015
    Speakers: Alan Cameron, Group Publisher, GPS World and Geospatial Solutions, and Eric Gakstatter, Editor, Survey Scene & Geospatial Solutions Monthly
    Summary: UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) are taking over the surveying industry, thanks to their ever-improving sensors and the fact that they are getting lighter and can therefore remain in the air for longer. They complete surveying and inspection tasks that would otherwise be difficult to tackle, and do so with impressive cost-efficiency. UAV trends and technology were among the focal points at the InterGeo conference in Berlin in early October.

  • Indoor Location with SiRFusion from CSR

    Sponsored by: CSR
    Broadcast date: Thursday, December 4, 2014
    On-Demand Available Until: Friday, December 4, 2015
    Speakers: Dave Huntingford, Director of Product Management for Location, CSR; Dimitri Rubin, Senior Director of Emerging Technologies, CSR; Murray Jarvis, Consultant, CSR
    Summary: Indoor location has become a hot topic, carrying the promise of ubiquitous location and user context. Set to take social networking, analytics, content targeting and enterprise efficiency applications to a new level, the technology hails from a high pedestal. SiRFusion TM from CSR is a new, innovative and technically disruptive solution, combining multiple sources of information to create high quality and accurate indoor positioning, without the need for new infrastructure or site surveys. Join CSR’s experts in Indoor Location, Dave Huntingford and the CSR SiRFusion team, to learn how this innovative indoor location technology can create new revenue streams for you through accurate understanding of your customers’ location indoors. Webinar topics:

    • Commercial applications for indoor location
    • SiRFusion – solving the indoor challenge via fusion of multiple technologies, including WiFi, BT Smart, GNSS & MEMS
    • Challenges and solutions for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning & BT Smart beaconing
    • SiRFusion performance results in real world situations

    Register now to learn how SiRFusion will enable new services, applications and social media for you.

  • WorldView-4 satellite heads to Vandenberg for September launch

    Built by Lockheed Martin, the WorldView-4 satellite will expand DigitalGlobe’s constellation of high-accuracy, high-resolution satellites, and double the availability of 30-cm resolution imagery for commercial and government customers.
    Built by Lockheed Martin, the WorldView-4 satellite will expand DigitalGlobe’s constellation of high-accuracy, high-resolution satellites, and double the availability of 30-centimeter resolution imagery for commercial and government customers.

    Final preparations are underway at Lockheed Martin to ship DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base for a Sept. 15 launch.

    The Lockheed Martin team is completing final satellite testing and checkout before shipment. Testing includes calculating the weight and center of gravity of WorldView-4, completing a health check of major systems, and testing out image collection and downlinking capability.

    “The high-resolution and high-accuracy images taken by WorldView-4 will support DigitalGlobe’s worldwide customer base,” said Carl Marchetto, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Commercial Space. “DigitalGlobe’s smart imagery serves hundreds of thousands of end-users charged with the safety and security of nations, and enables the maps and geospatial applications relied on by billions of consumers.”

    “Only the DigitalGlobe constellation, with the addition of WorldView-4, offers the highest quality, and most comprehensive global coverage of our changing planet through 2030, so our customers can be confident they will have the information to make critical decisions,” said Walter Scott, founder and chief technology officer, DigitalGlobe. “WorldView-4 will help us continue to transform the way we see the world, and advance our mission of keeping our planet and its people safe and secure.”

    Once launched, WorldView-4 will double DigitalGlobe’s coverage of the world’s highest resolution imagery and increase the rate at which it grows its 15-year library of time-lapse high-resolution imagery. WorldView-4 will orbit Earth every 90 minutes, traveling 17,000 miles per hour and capturing more 680,000 square kilometers of the Earth’s surface daily (19.5 terabytes) the equivalent of the land area of Texas.

    With an orbit approximately 400 miles from Earth, the satellite will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket provided by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services.

  • DOT conducts more testing for GPS adjacent band compatibility study

    The Department of Transportation (DOT) is conducting additional testing of GPS/GNSS receivers this month as part of the DOT Adjacent Band Compatibility Study, according to a Federal Register notice.

    The goal of the study is to evaluate the adjacent radio frequency band power levels that can be tolerated by GPS/GNSS receivers, and advance the DOT’s understanding of the extent to which such power levels impact devices used for transportation safety purposes, among other GPS/GNSS applications.

    In April, radiated testing of GNSS devices took place in an anechoic chamber at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

    The study provides for testing categories of receivers that include aviation (non-certified), cellular, general location/navigation, high-precision and networks, timing and space-based receivers. Approximately 12 receivers, representing each of these receiver categories, will be selected for additional testing from those receivers tested in April.

    More information on adjacent band compatibility can be found on the GPS.gov page.

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    Take a quick survey on GPS World’s recent redesign, and share your thoughts on our updated content and sections.

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    Click here to take part in the survey.

    Thank you for your time!

  • 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.
    Download a PDF of the webinar slides.

  • 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.