ION GNSS 2013 will be held September 17-20, 2013, at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Tutorials will be held September 16-17. For more information, visit the ION website.
Read More →The ION International Technical Meeting will be held January 28-30, 2013, at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, California. For more information, visit the ION website.
Read More →ION GNSS 2012 will be held September 18-21, 2012, at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Tutorials will be held September 20-21. For more information, visit the ION website.
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By Chris Rizos Geodesy is a suite of powerful Earth-observation techniques, associated methodologies, and analysis tools that today are making a vital contribution to science and society. Yet geodesy is not a new, child-of-technology sciaence. It dates back hundreds of years — some would claim th...
Read More →Look back with me at the five 2010 GNSS events that most affected surveying, mapping, engineering, construction, and natural resource users. Each one had, or could have had, a significant effect on you and your work. Taking it from the top: GPS 24+3 Constellation. The most important event occurred ...
Read More →By Pere Molina, Ismael Colomina, Markus Troger, Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, and Carmen Aguilera A pocket tracker for elderly people and Alzheimer’s patients consists of a smartphone using GNSS, WLAN, RFID, and GSM for basic positioning, communication channels, and an accelerometer triad for collap...
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By Cillian O’Driscoll, Gérard Lachapelle, and Mohamed Tamazin, University of Calgary The impact of adding GLONASS to HS-GPS is assessed using a software receiver operating in an actual urban canyon environment. Results are compared with standard and high sensitivity GNSS receivers and show a sig...
Read More →Surplus fuel loaded in error onboard the launch rocket caused loss of three new GLONASS satellites on December 5. The mishap burdened the DM-3 booster rocket with an excess of 1.5 to 2 tons of fuel, causing it to deviate from its course after blast-off and dive into the Pacific Ocean instead of rea...
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