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  • How Atomic Clocks Work — with Jello

    The EngineerGuy, author of educational books, demonstrates how atomic clocks work, and discusses their use in GPS, with the help of Jello.

  • RF Record & Playback Solutions

    http://youtu.be/B6GBkKLvMmM

    -Sponsored by Averna-

    In the field, capture up to 200 MHz of multi-channel bandwidth and return to your lab with a rich library of GPS and GLONASS signals and impairments to accelerate RF product designs and research. Add a camera for a complete view and map of your recording environment.

    Averna’s RF Studio software and suite of award-winning RF test instruments set the standard for portability, flexibility and repeatability, empowering you to efficiently record and play back all common radio, video, and GNSS signals in the highest fidelity to accelerate RF projects and reduce travel and testing costs.

    RF Studio: A Powerful Software for Easy RF Recording

    Available with Averna’s RF recorders and for National Instruments’ USRP, the versatile RF Studio features signal templates for quick setup and recording. With the Noise Figure feature you can view and record weak signals under the noise floor, and with the Spectrum, Power, and Histogram views you can visualize and analyze all your captured RF spectrum.

    With the optional DriveView™ module, you can capture a complete visual record and map of where you made your recordings to aid analysis and troubleshooting. As well, RF Studio’s plug-in architecture supports additional hardware, channels, user inputs, remote triggering and a distributed control interface to ensure the widest possible application.

    Learn more about Averna’s RF Studio

    RF Studio is available with the following platforms

    1. National Instruments’ USRP
      RF Studio for the USRP is the only product on the market in its price range that offers the flexibility to cover a wide variety of use cases, thus making it a very competitive solution for general-purpose RF R&P. RF Studio gives NI USRP customers a turnkey RF R&P solution while also leveraging the flexibility and customization possibilities that have made this software-defined radio such a successful platform.
    2. Averna’s RF Record & Playback Solutions
      Our suite of RF test instruments sets the standard for portability, flexibility and repeatability, empowering RF device manufacturers to efficiently generate, record and play back all common radio, video, and navigation signals, ensuring complete test coverage and the highest quality for their RF products.
    • Multi-Channel, 50 MHz and 20 MHz Compact RF Recorders
    • RF Players and Signal Generators

    Learn more about Averna’s RF Record and Playback Solutions

  • The Connected Vehicle

    Sponsored by: Hemisphere GNSS
    Original Broadcast Date:     Thursday, September 19, 2013
    Moderator: Janice Partyka, Wireless LBS Insider editor
    Speakers: David Jumpa, Chief Revenue Officer, Airbiquity; Scott McCormick, President, Connected Vehicle Trade Association; Andrew Maliszewski, Executive VP, Micronet; Scott Sedlik, VP Product and Marketing, Inrix
    Summary: The biggest announcements and the most interesting news at the three big wireless/electronics shows in 2013 have all concerned the connected car. Location is a core technology.  How will the connected vehicle market evolve?  Will there be similarities to the more advanced fleet market?  Providers of navigation, mapping, traffic, middleware, search, points of interest and mobile advertising all have key roles to play. How will the complexity of personalization and extras make it difficult to deliver products and service? The pace will only accelerate. Sort through the multiple issues and get your roadmap to the future with Janice Partyka and a panel of industry experts.

  • EarthCam Premieres Construction Time-Lapse Movie to Commemorate Opening of the Bay Bridge

    Watch EarthCam’s time-lapse movie of the construction progress for one of the largest ARRA (American Recovery and Restoration Act) funded projects in our nation’s history.

    More than 42,000 hours of construction can be seen in just four minutes with the release of EarthCam’s official time-lapse movie for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. After many years of construction to retrofit and transform the Bay Bridge, project teams and contractors will be celebrating all of their hard work at the opening of the updated bridge today, September 3.

    The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) relied on 12 EarthCam construction cameras to document progress for the $6.4 billion bridge. In 2008, EarthCam installed a combination of live streaming video cameras and high definition time-lapse systems, all carefully documenting progress from several unique perspectives. Strategically located on the project site, each camera captured a specific view of the progress, archiving footage from 42 preset angles. During the life of the project, views of progress, as well as important information about construction-related lane closures, were made available on the Webby award-winning public web page.

    EarthCam’s construction cameras captured nearly six years of progress, a powerful testament to the hard-working and dedicated bridge teams. The EarthCam Time-Lapse Production Team pored over the staggering number of images captured over the past 59 months and spent months hand-editing the archived imagery into a professional time-lapse movie.

  • Bring the Real World to the Bench

    http://youtu.be/OcYIvPa1Ul0

    -Sponsored by Averna-

    In the field, capture up to 200 MHz of multi-channel bandwidth and return to your lab with a rich library of GPS and GLONASS signals and impairments to accelerate RF product designs and research. Add a camera for a complete view and map of your recording environment.

    Averna’s RF Studio software and suite of award-winning RF test instruments set the standard for portability, flexibility and repeatability, empowering you to efficiently record and play back all common radio, video, and GNSS signals in the highest fidelity to accelerate RF projects and reduce travel and testing costs.

    RF Studio: A Powerful Software for Easy RF Recording

    Available with Averna’s RF recorders and for National Instruments’ USRP, the versatile RF Studio features signal templates for quick setup and recording. With the Noise Figure feature you can view and record weak signals under the noise floor, and with the Spectrum, Power, and Histogram views you can visualize and analyze all your captured RF spectrum.

    With the optional DriveView™ module, you can capture a complete visual record and map of where you made your recordings to aid analysis and troubleshooting. As well, RF Studio’s plug-in architecture supports additional hardware, channels, user inputs, remote triggering and a distributed control interface to ensure the widest possible application.

    Learn more about Averna’s RF Studio

    RF Studio is available with the following platforms

    1. National Instruments’ USRP
      RF Studio for the USRP is the only product on the market in its price range that offers the flexibility to cover a wide variety of use cases, thus making it a very competitive solution for general-purpose RF R&P. RF Studio gives NI USRP customers a turnkey RF R&P solution while also leveraging the flexibility and customization possibilities that have made this software-defined radio such a successful platform.
    2. Averna’s RF Record & Playback Solutions
      Our suite of RF test instruments sets the standard for portability, flexibility and repeatability, empowering RF device manufacturers to efficiently generate, record and play back all common radio, video, and navigation signals, ensuring complete test coverage and the highest quality for their RF products.
    • Multi-Channel, 50 MHz and 20 MHz Compact RF Recorders
    • RF Players and Signal Generators

    Learn more about Averna’s RF Record and Playback Solutions

  • GNSS Industry Outlook for 2014

    GNSS Industry Outlook for 2014
    Sponsored by: Hemisphere GNSS
    Broadcast Date:     Thursday, August 15, 2013
    Moderator:     Alan Cameron, Editor & Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Len Jacobson – GPS consultant, John Pottle – Marketing Director, Positioning and Navigation division, Spirent

  • U.S. Navy Conducts Anti-Jam Tests

    In July, the Communications and GPS Navigation Program Office mounted a Small Antenna System on an Aerostar unmanned aircraft, then placed the small UAV in a room lined with signal-absorbent material, where it was subjected to GPS jamming signals. Read more about the tests here.

     

  • Nightmare on GIS Street: GNSS Accuracy, Datums and Geospatial Data

    Sponsored by: Hemisphere
    Broadcast Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013
    Moderator: Eric Gakstatter, Survey Scene Newsletter Editor
    Speakers: Kevin Kelly, Geodesist, ESRI, Inc.; Craig Greenwald, Technical Director, GeoMobile Innovations; Michael L. Dennis, RLS, PE, Geodesist, NOAA

    A look at the challenge of dealing with horizontal datums in your GIS. We are moving into a new era in dealing with datum transformations. Geodata 2.0 is coming, and it can create big headaches when attempting to combine disparate geospatial databases. Sensors such as GPS receivers, remote sensing imagery, and 3D scanning provide much more accurate data, setting up a collision with outdated and mismatched legacy horizontal datums.

  • Air Force Video Explains GPS Role in Daily Life

    All of us in the GPS industry know someone who only thinks of GPS as a feature of their smartphone. You might direct them to a new YouTube video presented by the U.S. Air Force, which summarizes the worldwide role of GPS. It also touches on the GPS modernization program and new signals.

    The seven-minute video explains in simple terms how important GPS has become to everyday life — for aircraft and ship navigation, global financial transactions, precision agriculture, weather forecasting, disaster relief, and, of course, smartphones.

  • Designing for the Future: Signal Simulation for Expanding GNSS

    Sponsored by: Hemisphere
    Broadcast Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013
    Moderator: Alan Cameron, Editor & Publisher, GPS World
    Speakers: Mark Sampson, LabSat Product Manager, RaceLogic; John Fischer, Chief Technology Officer, Spectracom; Markus Lörner, Product Manager, Rohde & Schwarz; Steve Hickling, Lead Product Manager, Spirent Communications; Mark Wilson, Vice President of Sales, IfEN GmbH

    Simulation and testing experts offer key technical insights on the intricacies and importance of product and signal testing, whether by simulator, record-and-replay, or in the field, in the increasingly complex environment of multiple modernizing and expanding GNSS signals, from GPS III to BeiDou, with Galileo coming on strong and GLONASS a perennial standby.

  • GNSS Constellation Update

    Original Broadcast Date: 10/25/12

    Summary: This month, a new GPS satellite was launched, India launched a new SBAS satellite, and two Galileo satellites are scheduled to launch. Last month, China launched two more BeiDou satellites. There’s a lot of activity of the satellite navigation industry. In the webinar, I will discuss what these new developments mean to the surveying/mapping user, as well as other current events.

    Speaker:
    Eric Gakstatter
    Contributing editor for survey and GIS

  • Social Media and Big Data 101 for GIS professionals

    Original Broadcast Date:   Thursday, March 28, 2013

    Webinar Topic/Abstract:  Social Media and Big Data 101 for GIS professionals

    Experts in this growing field will discuss the basics for those new to leveraging the technology in their GIS operation. Topics will include different kinds of social media, human geography, traits of each, other related public media, several case studies/examples.

    Moderator:

    Art Kalinski
    Art Kalinski

    Art Kalinski
    Editor, GeoIntelligence Insider Newsletter

    A career Naval Officer, Art established the Navy’s first Geographic Information System (GIS) in the mid-eighties.  Completing a post graduate degree in GIS at the University of North Carolina, he joined the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) as the GIS Manager from 1993 to 2007.  He pioneered the use of oblique imagery for public safety and participated in numerous disaster response actions including: GIS/imagery support of the National Guard during Katrina, UASI (Urban Area Security Initiative) a NIMS based field exercises in Atlanta and a fully manned, hardware equipped joint disaster response exercise in New York City.  Art retired early from ARC to join Pictometry International to direct military projects using oblique imagery which led to him joining Soft Power Solutions, LLC.  He has written articles for numerous geospatial publications including a monthly column for GeoSpatial Solutions/GPS World aimed at federal GIS users.

    Speakers:
    Eric Gakstatter
    Editor, Geospatial-Solutions.com, Geospatial Solutions Monthly Newsletter
    Dr. Dan Tolley
    CEO, Soft Power Solutions, LLC
    Bob Dowling
    Co-founder, GeoCOP
    Gen. Edwin “Skip” Vincent (USAF Ret.)
    Founder, Soft Power Solutions, LLC
    Steve Lutton
    Director, Product Management, Geosemble Solutions