 | Out in Front: When the Gavel Comes Down
February 1, 2012
Article By: Alan Cameron Perhaps you don’t track suspected criminals in your spare time, nor do you design or supply a GNSS product that does so. Still, the fresh Supreme Court ruling on GPS use for this purpose reverberates for you, in ways yet unknown. The most interesting part of the court’s ruling pops up in a...More>> |
| Expert Advice: MSS Misinformation, and Ten Truths
December 1, 2011
Article By: Richard G. Keegan LightSquared is currently conducting a public campaign intended to persuade federal regulators to approve a nationwide broadband service that would be detrimental to users and applications that depend on GPS. The campaign relies on misinformation, revisionist history, half-truths, and clear...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Feds Playing Footsie
December 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron I’ll be the first to say that I don’t know how Washington works. I don’t know if Washington works, but that’s another story. Lacking that knowledge, and a competent lawyer to pepper my filings with the requisite “Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Realizing Europe’s SatNav Ambitions
November 1, 2011
Article By: Axelle Pomies, Gard Ueland The 21st century today faces and will continue to encounter many new societal challenges, all mutually interdependent: health, environment, agriculture, ageing population, personal security, public and civil protection, safe and efficient transport and mobility, citizen rescue, land management,...More>> |
 | Product Review: The Trimble Ranger 3
August 10, 2011
Article By: Don Jewell The Ranger 3 impressed me from the very first moment I saw the unit. First of all, it is designated correctly by Trimble, and the military and first responder users who wrote me, as a rugged handheld GPS-enabled computer, and it certainly fulfills all the requirements for that designation. If you...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Energy Production Concerns about LightSquared
July 1, 2011
Article By: Randall Luthi Dear Chairman Genachowski: The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA), which represents approximately 270 member companies involved in outer continental shelf (OCS) energy production throughout the United States, is gravely concerned over the pending allocation of Mobile Satellite Services...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: GNSS Interference, Detection, and Mitigation
May 1, 2011
Article By: Sally Basker Interference, detection, and mitigation — these have become topics of paramount importance to the GNSS community recently, surpassing at times even those old familiar standards accuracy, availability, and integrity. In March, a large expert audience attended a GNSS Interference, Detection, and...More>> |
 | A Look at the Rugged Handheld Algiz 7
March 16, 2011
Article By: Don Jewell The warfighters have spoken. My correspondence lately has been full of questions about tablet and handheld computers. My sources at AT&T and Verizon tell me that the number of iPads in Iraq and Afghanistan have doubled in the last year alone. The problem is that Apple iPads and iPhones, for all...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Why Geodesy Matters, Now More than Ever
January 1, 2011
Article 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 thousands of...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Welling Up
July 1, 2010
Article By: Alan Cameron One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine’s September 1992 issue. A salient passage from that 18-year-old “Quality Control For Differential GPS in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration” article:...More>> |
