Google to improve urban GPS accuracy for apps The wrong-side-of-the-street position error in smartphones is caused by reflected GPS signals in cities, and Google employees embarked on an ambitious project to help solve this problem.
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First Fix: National timing architecture needed now Timing is the unseen foundation of every networked technology, digital broadcast and of most navigation systems, just to name a few applications. Yet, as GPS World readers know, signals from our dominant source of timing — GPS — are very faint and easily disrupted.
Transportation requires a fusion; now to test it Inertial navigation systems, like most navigation systems, have evolved through countless iterations and improvements over many years.
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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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