| |
|
The GPS/GNSS newsletter by NavtechGPS Inc., the GPS professional's resource since 1984. |
| January 3, 2007 |
|
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)
Welcome to "NavtechGPS
News" published
by NavtechGPS - your source for GPS/GNSS
news! To see previous
newsletters, go to our newsletter home
page.
We invite you to forward this
newsletter to your colleagues - subscriptions are free. (We do not share our growing email list
with anyone except the non-profit Institute of
Navigation.)
*Please see the bottom of this page for how to subscribe to this
newsletter or how to be removed from our email list.
Note: Many of the links on this page are set to open in a new
window.
|
|
Included
in this Newsletter:
(click on hyperlinks below to jump to news items)
|
ITEM 1) GLONASS
RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
Russian defense ministry lifts GLONASS restrictions.
01.01.2007, 10.59
MOSCOW, January 1 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry of Defense
lifted all the restrictions on Monday on obtaining and using the
geospatial information provided by the global satellite
navigation system /GLONASS/.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said a “civil
and a commercial component has been added to the general
segment."
The “system will not be effective without commercial profit,
without the implementation; it is needed for military purposes,
but this is not all,” he said.
Restrictions have been abolished on a precision of geographical
coordinates of objects (previously 30 meters) and on linear
resolution of the remote probing of the Earth, the minister
said.
“This allows making open topographic and navigation maps of a
large scale, allows using equipment of the space navigation
system on a legal basis and allows the citizens and the economy
to receive and use materials from aerospace means regardless of
a resolution,” Ivanov stressed.
He said that open information is especially important “for the
land cadastre and for motorists”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in December that GLONASS
should be accessible to citizens.
“It should be accessible to citizens, and not only to major
entities of the economic activity, then the system will be
economically profitable and recompensing,” he told Cabinet
officials.
Russia's GLONASS scored success in late 2006. Three new
satellites with longer service life - up to 7 years -- were put
into orbit and taken under control by the Space Forces' main
testing and monitoring center.
The satellite will be propelled by on-board engines to the
preset orbit coordinates in the first days of January.
At present, the ground control center is testing their avionics.
GLONASS now has 17 units. The cluster of satellites has to be
brought to 18 to cover the entire territory of Russia, and to 24
to be used worldwide.
The satellites of the GLONASS /Uragan/ family were designed in
the Zheleznogorsk-based research and production applied
mechanics association.
Russia now has two versions of GLONASS. The state-of-the-art
GLONASS-K satellite will function in orbit for ten or 12 years.
It has better performance characteristics and weighs
considerably less compared with the GLONASS or GLONASS-M units.
Russia is expected to launch trials of GLONASS-K this year.
Design objectives are being formulated for a GLONASS-KM
satellite.
GLONASS is intended for determining the location and velocity of
seaborne, airborne and ground objects and the precise time.
Initially, it was planned to complete it by 2012, but President
Vladimir Putin ordered the Defense Ministry to expedite the
deployment of the system.
"It should become available nationwide by the end of 2007, and
worldwide- by the end of 2009," the Russian defense minister
said.
© ITAR-TASS. All right reserved. You undertake not to copy,
store in any medium (including in any other websites),
distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify or show in
public any part of the ITAR-TASS website without the prior
written permission of ITAR-TASS.Contact phone.: +7(095) 202
1127, 202 1295, 290 4468, 229 2864, 229 4171; fax: (095) 202
5474 e-mail: worldmarket@itar-tass.com
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
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/
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
ITEM 4) MEETINGS
CALENDAR
______________________________________
January 22-24, 2007
ION National Technical Meeting
San Diego, CA
Abstracts are due September 26, 2006.
www.ion.org
______________________________________
March 6-8, 2007
Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2007
Residenz München
Munich, Germany
www.munich-satellite-navigation-summit.org
______________________________________
September 25-28, 2007 (Navtech Tutorials: September 24-25)
ION GNSS 2007
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, Texas
www.ion.org
back
to top
|
|
SEND
US YOUR NEWS ITEMS, WITH SOURCES!
Carolyn McDonald, Editor
cmcdonald@navtechgps.com
back to top
|
|
Thank
you for subscribing to our news update emails.
We hope the information will be useful to you!
back
to top |
|
|
