GPS World Magazine September 2011

GPS world magazine september coverGPS World magazine for September 2011 edition has been released. You can read latest news on business and technology of global navigation and positioning in this issue. Here are feature articles for this month.

Locata: A New Constellation
GPS can no longer evolve fast enough. Satellite-based systems cannot maintain the speed of development now required for the hyper-fast evolutionary pace of modern applications and devices. For positioning for the future, it has become exceedingly clear that GPS now needs a terrestrial component.

Availability and Safety
GNSS availability can be affected in many ways, through events or conditions that affect constellation health, the signal-in-space, or the reception of that signal. The primary means of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) employed in maritime applications, whether stand-alone or augmented, has well known vulnerabilities.

This article considers three specific threats and reports on how they may affect maritime safety: GNSS interference and jamming; constellation availability; and space weather events.

Microtechnology Comes of Age
The aggregated DARPA Microtechnology for Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (micro-PNT) program is pursuing a new wave of innovation focused on bringing to life revolutionary ideas and fabrication technologies on micro/nano/pico/femto/atto scales, packaging, ultra-low-power electronics, innovative algorithms, never-before-explored architectures, and exploitation of new integration paradigms.

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