Sally Basker

Across transportation, agriculture, industry, commerce, and finance, GPS has replaced earlier technologies, opened up innovative applications, and led to new ways of doing old things. GPS now plays a key role in the critical infrastructures of all industrialized nations, from the most sophisticated...more >>

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 >>

As the GPS community continues dealing with what may be its deepest crisis to date — the Lightsquared interference issue — we should all remember that not all the heat, and correspondingly not all the light, either, is generated in North America. This month’s newsletter column comes from a...more >>

A packed audience attended the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom for a February 23 meeting titled, “GPS Jamming and Interference: A Clear and Present Danger,” organized by the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network. In his keynote address, David Last described a dark,...more >>

Enhanced Loran, eLoran, is GPS's new best friend and superhero sidekick. It is independent of GPS with dissimilar failure modes and delivers complementary levels of performance to multi-modal users.

The world's shipping industry is experiencing a period of strong growth with seaborne trade at record levels and increasing 4 percent per year. Ships are larger and faster, sea-lanes more crowded, and crews are less experienced.

The world's shipping industry is experiencing a period of strong growth with seaborne trade at record levels and increasing 4 percent per year. Ships are larger and faster, sea-lanes more crowded, and crews are less experienced.