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  • Registration opens for ITM/PTTI 2022 in Long Beach, California

    Registration opens for ITM/PTTI 2022 in Long Beach, California

    Photo: ION

    ION’s winter meeting, the International Technical Meeting (ITM), is a more intimate conference with a technical program related to positioning, navigation and timing and includes the ION Fellows and Annual Awards presentations.

    In 2022, ITM will take place in Long Beach, California, Jan. 25-27, and will be co-located with the Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting. ITM will house more than 150 in-person and virtual technical presentations, two keynote addresses, six tutorials, and an exhibit hall filled with the latest PNT solutions.

    A commercial exhibit and pre-conference tutorials are held in conjunction with the conference.

    Tutorials will be offered as part of this year’s in-person technical program on January 26 and will be open to all in-person PTTI and ITM attendees. Tutorials cover novel systems for time distribution from space, atomic clocks, Kalman filtering for clock estimation, and specific implementations for time distribution from space.

    The ITM/PTTI plenary session will be recorded and uploaded to the website for on-demand viewing. No other ITM/PTTI sessions (including tutorials) will be recorded for on-demand viewing. All presenters are required to provide a video presentation for on-demand viewing. On-demand presentations will be available through the ITM/PTTI meeting portal for 30 days.

    To view the ITM/PTTI 2022 technical program and to register, go to https://www.ion.org/itm/registration.cfm.

  • ION Announces 2015 Award Winners, Fellows

    ION Announces 2015 Award Winners, Fellows

    The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Annual Awards during the ION International Technical Meeting in Dana Point, Calif., Jan. 26-28. The annual awards recognize individuals making significant contributions or demonstrating outstanding performance relating to the art and science of navigation. ION also announced its elected Fellow members.

    Award Winners

    • Mathieu Joerger received the Early Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the integrity of multi-constellation and multi-sensor navigation systems. The award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions made early in one’s career.
    • Captain Samantha Ekwall received the Superior Achievement Award for her heroic actions as the lead navigator for a five-ship formation during the refueling of the battle damaged CV-22 Ospreys during a U.S. embassy evacuation attempt in South Sudan. The Superior Achievement Award is presented to an individual demonstrating outstanding accomplishments as a practicing navigator.
    • Hamid Mokhtarzadeh and Demoz Gebre-Egziabher received the Dr. Samuel M. Burka Award for their paper “Cooperative Inertial Navigation” published in the Summer 2014 issue of NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Vol. 61, No. 2,pp.77-94. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the preparation of a paper contributing to the advancement of the art and science of positioning, navigation and timing.
    • Patricia Doherty received the Captain P. V. H. Weems Award for her contributions to the management and encouragement of advanced navigation research and for her service to ION. The award is presented to individuals for continuing contributions to the art and science of navigation.
    • Bruce Haines received the Tycho Brahe Award for notable achievements in astrodynamics-navigation, precise orbit determination and satellite applications to geophysics and oceanography. The Tycho Brahe Award is presented to recognize outstanding contributions to the science of space navigation, guidance and control.
    • Neeraj Pujara received the Norman P. Hays Award for his inspired leadership, outstanding encouragement, inspiration and dedicated support contributing to the advancement of navigation. The award is given in recognition of outstanding encouragement, inspiration and support contributing to the advancement of navigation.
    • Todd Humphreys received the Thomas L. Thurlow Award for contributions that enhance radionavigation security and robustness in the face of intentional spoofing and natural interference. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the science of navigation. Humphreys has written several articles for GPS World, the latest being the February cover story, “Accuracy in the Palm of Your Hand.”
    • Patricia Doherty received the Distinguished Service Award, presented for extraordinary service to ION.
    ION's new Fellows: (from left) Attila Komjathy, Yu (Jade) Morton, and Frank van Digglen.
    ION’s new Fellows: (from left) Attila Komjathy, Yu (Jade) Morton, and Frank van Digglen.

    Fellows

    ION also announced recipients of 2015 Fellow memberships. Election to Fellow membership recognizes the distinguished contributions of ION members to the advancement of the technology, management, practice and teaching the arts and science of navigation; and/or lifetime contributions to ION.

    • Attila Komjathy has been elected for contributions to remote sensing of Earth’s ionosphere using GNSS signals.
    • Yu (Jade) Morton has been elected for contributions to GNSS software receivers and the development of a worldwide network of space weather monitoring stations.
    • Frank van Digglen has been elected for contributions to satellite-based navigation for consumer applications, especially mobile handheld devices. van Diggelen joined the GPS World Advisory Board in 2014.