Rohde & Schwarz’s Chintankumar Patel discusses the company’s test solution that supports WEA (Wireless Emergency Alerts) 3.0 with geo-fencing at ION GNSS+ 2019, which took place in Miami. read more
Emergency response providers participating in a Design Thinking workshop organized by the ResponDrone Project have indicated that they would like to use drones to gather and distribute crucial information and provide communication networks in disaster areas. Preliminary results from the workshop, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in November, indicate that first responders view the constant provision of real-time information in crisis... read more
uAvionix has received U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval for the Vehicle Tracking Unit (VTU-20) Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) transmitter for airport surface management. uAvionix is a designer and manufacturer of communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) equipment for unmanned and manned aircraft. Adhering to the performance and design assurance specifications of FAA-E-3032, the externally mounted VTU-20 ensures integration... read more
What is or would be the best policy response from Congress and/or executive branch agencies to the growing threats to GPS from jamming and interference? “Homeland Security has declared GPS to be an essential system to virtually all of our infrastructure. It is time to install a national system to identify and shut down interference. As part of that, all... read more
On CBS’ Sunday Morning show Dec. 1, correspondent David Pogue was invited into the Air Force’s GPS Master Control Station at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to show viewers what GPS is all about. Pogue discussed the GPS program with Brigadier General DeAnna Burt, who oversees the program as the director of operations at Air Force Space... read more
By Kevin Dennehy GPS World Contributor University teams will go head-to-head in a two-year autonomous race car competition to test new software and other self-driving technologies at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The competition, called the Indy Autonomous Challenge, culminates in a high-speed autonomous vehicle race, scheduled for Oct. 23, 2021, on the speedway’s famed 2.5-mile oval track that is home to... read more
No One Is in Charge Guest column by Dana Goward Europe’s scattered monitoring of GNSS signals found almost 500,000 interference events over three years. About 59,000 were clearly intentional. European standards for resilient receivers have been published and acquisition of an interference detection network is underway. Russia is improving its terrestrial Loran/Chayka PNT system for military use and has promised... read more
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has published a technical report that describes options for how NGS can implement a time-dependent geopotential datum and thus a time-dependent geoid model. My last column described the latest version of NGS’ VERTCON model. As mentioned in the column, NGS is developing these models and tools to support the implementation of the North American-Pacific Geopotential... read more
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