The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board continued its discussions on how best to protect, toughen and augment GPS at its 31st meeting, which took place Dec. 4-5 at the Sonesta Redondo Beach and Marina in Redondo Beach, California.
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry.
Nearly three quarters of Earth’s surface is covered by water, yet only about a quarter of that surface has been mapped in detail using modern high-resolution technology. The increasing population in coastal regions and rising sea levels due to climate change have heightened the importance of observing coastal transformations, erosion and other marine alterations.
Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng has agreed to join the GPS World Editorial Advisory Board.
Electronic warfare techniques, such as GPS spoofing and jamming, are on the rise. With the increasing prevalence of this sophisticated form of warfare, industry experts must be aware of the threats and find ways to manage them to protect daily operations and civilians.
Editor-in-Chief Matteo Luccio writes about how war, international collaboration and the periodic changes in national perspectives and priorities brought about by elections contribute as much as scientific and technical research to the prospects of GNSS.
Saying the government must focus on “delivering an operational resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system for the United Kingdom as soon as we can,” the British Science Minister, Lord Patrick Vallance, announced several initiatives to the Royal Institute of Navigation’s UK PNT Leadership Seminar.
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