GPS World's Navigate! Weekly

DECEMBER 29, 2020

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO OUR READERS!

DIRECTIONS 2021: GNSS DEVELOPMENTS

Editor’s note: An update on the GPS system will appear in the April 2021 issue.

Photo: BeiDou Navigation Satellite System

BDS marches to new era of
global services

On July 31, BDS-3, the global version of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, was formally commissioned, marking the completion of its three-step development process.

Galileo expands and modernizes global PNT

Throughout 2020, the Galileo Programme has been delivering continuous and reliable global PNT and Search and Rescue services, launched a full modernization program aiming in the future at Galileo Second Generation and more.

GLONASS on the verge of
a new decade

The year 2020 heralds the end of another 10-year stage of development of the Russian GLObal NAvigation Satellite System.

INNOVATION 2020

Take another look at interesting developments and research in GNSS in these articles edited by Professor Richard B. Langley.

Integrity for safe navigation

A key feature of a new high-accuracy GNSS correction service
The design, construction, operation and performance of the first safety-critical, high-accuracy augmentation service for autonomous applications.

Photo: FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

Improving ARAIM

An approach using precise point positioning
A team of authors from Stanford University discusses a superior approach for ARAIM using the technique of precise point positioning.

Design, performance of a GNSS antenna for rover applications

Smaller and better
In this GPS World 30th anniversary issue Innovation column, we look at the design and performance of an antenna that offers high performance even in challenging environments in a relatively small package.

Photo: K. Mueller, J. Atman, N. Kronenwett & G.F. Trommer

A multi-sensor navigation system for outdoors and indoors

Getting the best in both worlds
GPS alone won’t cut it. Thankfully, other navigation sensors can be used to supplement or replace GNSS when the going gets tough for GPS alone.

2020 WEBINARS

All past webinars are available on demand. Check them out below.

Top editorial webinar: GPS Program Updates and its Role in the SMC Space Enterprise Architecture

Brought to you by: Spirent Federal Systems
In this webinar, the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Col. Ryan Colburn gives a status update on the GPS program and explains where the program falls in the SMC space enterprise architecture.

Watch Here

• GNSS Interference: Sources, Effects, Detection, and Mitigation Techniques (Dec. 3)

• The Era of Autonomy is Here: Going Beyond the Vehicle Phenomenon (Oct. 29)

• The Need for Resilient PNT Services to Ensure Safe and Secure Transportation Infrastructure (Oct. 22)

• PNT Monitoring to Safeguard Critical Infrastructure (Sept. 17)

• The Virtual Primary Reference Time Clock: A Next-Generation Timing Architecture for Critical Infrastructures (Aug. 27)

• Transforming Land and Asset Management with HD Aerial Imagery (June 25)

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure with Resilient Timing & Synchronization (June 4)

• Smarter Decisions From Above: How to Optimize Aerial & Drone Survey Programs
(April 30)

• How To Ensure Position Accuracy of GNSS Remote Feature Locations in Any Setting
(March 26)

UPCOMING WEBINAR

GPS Anti-Jam and the Latest in Sensor Fusion Testing

Date: Jan. 21
Sponsored content by: Spirent Federal Systems

Summary: This webinar will discuss the merger that formed Raytheon Technologies, the critical importance of GPS anti-jam solutions, new methods to interface non-GNSS sensors into a GNSS test suite, how precise time synchronization improves sensor use, and the latest in sensor fusion testing.

Speakers:
• Chad Pillsbury, senior director of resilient navigation and reconnaissance solutions, Raytheon Intelligence & Space
• Ben Graham, director for advanced navigation and surveillance systems, Raytheon Intelligence & Space
• Roger Hart, director of engineering, Spirent Federal Systems
• Ajay Vemuru, product manager, Spirent Communications

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