Well, if the economy is going to tank … … at least our industry outlook is pretty good for the next five years. Hmmm … I guess I should clarify, because the survey/construction business is clearly slowing here in the United States (I probably don’t need to tell you that). But, if you want to...
Read More →Solar Activity: Is There Aspirin for This GNSS Headache? Like the hurricane/cyclone/typhoon seasons that occur every year around the globe, one fact of life about GNSS is space weather and the solar cycle. For professionals who use GNSS on a regular basis, it’s easy to forget about it since it...
Read More →ION GNSS Conference – Not This Year Well, it wasn’t meant to be. Hurricane Ike made sure of that. I travel quite a bit and I never fly Continental Airlines, but there aren’t a lot of choices when flying to Savannah, Georgia from Portland, Oregon. So a couple of months ago, I booked my ...
Read More →Civil P(Y) follow-up and ION GNSS I figure it’s about time for a follow-up newsletter on the Civil P(Y) sunset proposal by the GPS Wing. In June, I wrote a spoke briefly with Col. Madden, Commander of the GPS Wing, about the Civil P(Y) sunset proposal. Quite a straight-forward guy if I can say...
Read More →Attending the Annual ESRI Networking Conference As much as surveyors, engineers and constructors may not appreciate geographic information systems (GIS) technology, at some point everyone should attend at least the ESRI Survey/Engineering Summit and the first couple of days of the ESRI User Conferen...
Read More →The Latest from Moscow and JAVAD GNSS It seems every industry has at least one person’s first name that, when spoken, sparks recognition from anyone who has a reasonable amount of experience in that field. In the computer database industry, everyone knows that “Larry” is Larry Ellison of Oracl...
Read More →Software Receivers May Hold the Key to Multi GNSS It’s not often that I read a technical paper that really catches my attention to the point that I read and reread it, then write the authors to probe further. That happened to me last week. I’m on the IGS (International GNSS Service, form...
Read More →PNT Advisory Board on the Virtues of 30 Plus Last fall, I wrote a column about the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC). Essentially, CGSIC is the forum for the civil community to communicate with the people who manage the GPS, and vice versa. In this column, I’d like to climb...
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