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Massive GPS Jamming Attack by North Korea May 8, 2012
Large coordinated cyber attacks from North Korea near its border with South Korea produced electronic jamming signals that affected GPS navigation for passenger aircraft, ships, and in-car navigation for roughly a week in late April and early May. To date, no accidents, casualties, or fatalities...More>>
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Innovation: Simulating GPS Signals May 1, 2012
GNSS signal simulators can be expensive and beyond the limited budgets of many researchers. In this month’s column, we look at one company’s approach to providing GNSS signal simulation at a low cost — one that virtually any researcher can afford.GNSS signal simulators can be expensive and...More>>
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Innovation: Ionospheric Scintillations April 1, 2012
In this month’s column, the international Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems Ionospheric Working Group presents an abridged version of their recently completed white paper on the effect of ionospheric scintillations on GNSS and the associated augmentation systems.More>>
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Patch Antennas for the New GNSS February 1, 2012
Small ceramic patch elements offer nearly perfect single-frequency receive characteristics and have become the standard for GPS L1 antennas. However, the new generation of GNSS receivers now being introduced track many satellites in multiple constellations. Are these narrow-band devices up to the...More>>
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Straight Talk on Anti-Spoofing January 1, 2012
Disruption created by intentional generation of fake GPS signals could have serious economic consequences. This article discusses how typical civil GPS receivers respond to an advanced civil GPS spoofing attack, and four techniques to counter such attacks: spread-spectrum security codes, navigation...More>>
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ITT Exelis, Chronos Team on Offerings for Interference, Detection and Mitigation December 15, 2011
ITT Exelis and Chronos Technology Ltd. have agreed to jointly pursue and develop product offerings for the GNSS interference, detection and mitigation (IDM) market. Satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems are vulnerable to many factors, such as signals jamming, resulting in...More>>
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Low-Complexity Spoofing Mitigation December 1, 2011
Most anti-spoofing techniques are computationally complicated or limited to a specific spoofing scenario. A new approach uses a two-antenna array to steer a null toward the direction of the spoofing signals, taking advantage of the spatial filtering and the periodicity of the authentic and spoofing...More>>
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Consumer GPS/GLONASS December 1, 2011
A one-chip multiconstellation GNSS receiver, now in volume production, has been tested in severe urban environments to demonstrate the benefits of multiconstellation operation in a consumer receiver. Bringing combined GPS/GLONASS from a few tens of thousands of surveying receivers to many millions...More>>
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GNSS Signals 2011 Issues Call for Papers August 22, 2011
The fifth European workshop on GNSS signals and signal processing, GNSS Signals 2011, is seeking papers. The workshop will be held December 8-9, 2011, at L'Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC), in Toulouse, France.
The focus of the workshop is on GNSS signal design and signal processing....More>>
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Lone Sentinel July 1, 2011
Using signal-to-noise measurements from a single commercial-grade L1 GPS receiver, it is possible to detect interference or jamming that is above the thermal noise floor and below a power that causes loss of position.More>>
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