By Anas Malkawi The team installs a HARNS in the southern province of Basra. Since 2005, Iraqi engineers have attempted to recover HARNS, but many were destroyed by locals who thought they indicated buried treasure. As a geodetic surveyor, I served in the U.S Army for 10 years. During that time, my ...
Read More →GLONASS-K is moved to the launchpad. News courtesy of CANSPACE listserv. According to a Roscosmos report, the state commission governing rocket launches will launch GLONASS-K1 on February 26 at 03:06 UTC. The launch of GLONASS-K1 has been pushed back for “technical reasons.” The ...
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Using the Augmentation System with GPS-Equipped Mobile Phones By François Boullete, Boris Kennes, Michaël Mastier, and Lee Banfield GPS corrections from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service can improve the positioning accuracy and user experience of GPS-enabled mobile phones, ev...
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A new method enables the mobile phone to compute its own position using acquisition assistance data with increased resolution in some of the fields. It benefits network operators as they can deliver the best performance with minimum bandwidth requirements, making this especially relevant in emergenc...
Read More →In November, December, and January, a regulatory drama with high potential impact on the GPS signal and domestic U.S. GPS users began unfolding before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). As this magazine goes to press on January 24, the issue remains far from resolved, although hearings and...
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By Lars Holstein The alarm operations center for the state of Bavaria receives this message from the accident location, and swiftly moves into coordinating activity, gathering and distributing real-time geospatial data and other key information to all emergency teams and medical facilities in the ar...
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What’s in Store for the Next Solar Maximum? By Anna B.O. Jensen and Cathryn Mitchell Although the sun can become disturbed at any time, solar activity is correlated with the approximately 11-year cycle of spots on the sun’s surface. We are just coming out of a minimum in the solar cycle and head...
Read More →The ION International Technical Meeting will be held January 27-29, 2014, at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, California. For more information, visit the ION website.
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