 | 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: 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>> |
 | Expert Advice: Who Won?
August 1, 2011
Article By: Logan Scott Thousands of man hours and millions of dollars later, we finally have the 975-page GPS Technical Working Group (TWG) report, confirming what five minutes of back-of-the-envelope calculation predicted. Hooray for our side, good job GPS Industry Council; we’ve won the war and the foe is vanquished,...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Critical Offshore Applications of SBAS GNSS
July 1, 2011
Article By: James D. Litton Precise positioning of many different kinds of vessels and other equipment depend upon satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) of GNSS, principally GPS and GLONASS at this time. The applications range from exploration to production and delivery of hydrocarbons to shore-based installations and...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>> |
 | Affordable Anti-Jam Technology
June 15, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin In a world where there is more and intentional and unintentional interference with GNSS, it’s a little comforting to hear that technology has been developed which can help us fight back. The proliferation of affordable "Personal Protection Devices (PPDs)" used to mask GPS location — for users...More>> |
 | Australian GNSS – A Snapshot
May 18, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin There is so much going on around the world in GNSS applications and developments that when we try to report what’s going on in a particular location, all we can really do is provide a snapshot. Each snapshot is simply a momentary picture captured at a single location — there really could be an...More>> |
 | Landing Airplanes with GPS?
April 20, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin Landing airplanes with GPS is not a new concept. People were demonstrating the feasibility back in the early 1990s. But landing transport airplanes in commercial airline service is something that’s only just getting to be a regular occurrence. Before we go on, maybe we need a short side trip into...More>> |
 | Companies Finding TRB Enterprise and Government Market Haven
February 9, 2011
Article By: Kevin Dennehy Sometimes a market niche appears to be heading toward better things — even if the economy is not. This year’s Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting had its highest attendance ever. While intelligent transportation systems meetings have been shunned in the last few years as being too...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Ten Big Ones in Five
January 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron At the opposite end of this book, my esteemed colleague Eric Gakstatter gives you his Top Five news stories of the recently passed year, from a system point of view. Spend five minutes here in this column, and I’ll toss up the Top Ten for GNSS business, as reported in this magazine. Not the...More>> |
