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Sally Basker


Sally Basker is the director of Research and Radionavigation for the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and a member of GPS Worlds Editorial Advisory Board.


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Expert Advice: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread   January 1, 2012
By: David Last,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 >>

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Expert Advice: GNSS Interference, Detection, and Mitigation   May 1, 2011
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 >>

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GNSS Vulnerability, Risks, and Response   March 23, 2011
By: Sally Basker

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 >>

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Expert Advice: Jamming: A Clear and Present Danger   April 1, 2010
By: Sally Basker

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 >>

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Expert Advice - eLoran, Superhero Sidekick!   January 1, 2008
By: Sally Basker

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.

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Expert Advice - The Case for eLORAN   June 1, 2006
By: Sally Basker

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.

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Expert Advice - The Case for eLORAN   June 1, 2006
By: Sally Basker

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.