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The GPS/GNSS newsletter by NavtechGPS Inc., the GPS professional's resource since 1984. |
| December 27, 2006 |
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Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn P. McDonald (send news items to cmcdonald@navtechgps.com)
Technical
Editor: Keith D. McDonald (satconsult@aol.com)
Production
& Design: Yelena Teterina (yteterina@navtechgps.com)
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ITEM 1) GLONASS
LAUNCH
Russia successfully launched three Glonass satellites on 25
December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three
spacecraft are upgraded to provide a second civilian navigation
channel and increased accuracy and life.
Status information on Glonass is located at:
http://www.glonass-ianc.rsa.ru/pls/htmldb/f?p=202:1:17726299021767719776
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ITEM 2)
NAVTECHGPS's 2007 PUBLIC COURSE SCHEDULE
Our public course venue schedule for the full 2007 is firm with
special GSA rates finalized.
View our complete list of dates and courses at:
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/sem2007schedule.asp
Online registration is open at:
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/semreg.asp
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ITEM 3)
NEWSLETTER LINKS and USEFUL WEBSITES (This is an
archival list. Please notify us if your own link changes.)
* Mr. Glen Gibbons, founding editor of "GPS World", launched a
new international trade journal, "Inside GNSS" last January.
Subscription is FREE and details can be found at
http://www.insidegnss.com
* The European Space Agency publishes an EGNOS newsletter that
is called EGNOS NEWS, focusing both on EGNOS and on satellite
navigation issues:
http://ravel.esrin.esa.int/docs/egnos/estb/newsletter.htm
* To view details on "GPS World" magazine, the GPS standard
since 1990, go to
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld
* For the archives of the Locus Inc. newsletter on LORAN
positioning and timing, go to:
http://www.locusinc.com/loran_newsletter.html
* For the newsletter published by "Professional Surveyor"
Magazine, go to
http://www.profsurv.com/newpsm/news.php
* Continuously updated newsletter by the US Coast Guard's
Navigation Center "NAVCEN" is at
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
* Military and Aerospace magazine's newsletter is found at:
http://mae.pennnet.com/Search/index.cfm?Section=Archives
* Kalman filter site maintained by Gregory F. Welch, UNC, Chapel
Hill, NC is at
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalman/
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ITEM 4) MEETINGS
CALENDAR
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January 22-24, 2007
ION National Technical Meeting
San Diego, CA
Abstracts are due September 26, 2006.
www.ion.org
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March 6-8, 2007
Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2007
Residenz München
Munich, Germany
www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org
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September 25-28, 2007 (Navtech Tutorials: September 24-25)
ION GNSS 2007
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, Texas
www.ion.org
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