From the Editor features insights from Editor in Chief Alan Cameron.
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Out in Front: EGNOS Up August 1, 2010
We now definitively declare “curtain up!” on the second act of the human and technological drama, Interoperable Global Navigation Satellite Systems, by many authors, directors, and actors, upon the global stage. It happens on August 2 with removal of the message 0 (“Do Not Use in...More>>
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Letters to the Editor July 1, 2010
Our readers respond to the cover features in the May and June issues: the two-part special the "Origins of GPS" and Richard Langley's look at "GPS by the Numbers."More>>
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Out in Front: Welling Up July 1, 2010
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>>
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Out in Front: Brussels Calling June 1, 2010
The European Commission rang up the other day, concerned that a recent column contained misperceptions about the Galileo Open Service Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document (ICD). I replied that if misperception exists, it is shared by at least some in industry.Though the EC has abandoned a...More>>
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Out in Front: Two-Million-Mile Man April 26, 2010
Brad Parkinson just won’t stop launching rockets, or flying around talking to other folks about their rockets and spacecraft. The founding director of the GPS Joint Program Office keeps busy and keeps on the go, consulting, advising, reporting, advocating. Not just for GPS but for all GNSS. Not...More>>
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Letters to the Editor: The Other Shoe April 1, 2010
The Other Shoe, The Spy, The Other SpyMore>>
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Out in Front: What's in a Number? April 1, 2010
Computers killed a trusty companion of my teenage years. That is, after those proto-computers known as pocket calculators knocked him out and left him unconscious on the cooling floor. But I come to praise my slide rule, not to bury him. With computers, it’s just numbers in, numbers out. Maybe...More>>
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Out in Front: Apply the Seat of the Pants March 1, 2010
Not “fly by,” but “apply.” As in W. Somerset Maugham’s advice to aspiring young writers: Apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Get grounded. Confront the blank page, the typewriter, or the less preferable modern equipments (because instant electronics short-circuit orderly...More>>
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Out in Front: Rocky Road to Robustness February 1, 2010
The system’s command and control operational software update uploaded in late 2009 (see page 10) has started wreaking some havoc with installed military receivers across many fielded platforms, as well as with some civil receivers. Whether major or minor havoc, I don’t pretend to know yet. The...More>>
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Letters to the Editor January 1, 2010
Readers comment on Frank van Diggelen's article "The Smartphone Revolution" from the December 2009 issue.More>>
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