GPS World, December 2017

ONLINENOW NEWSLETTER EXCERPTS A Surveyor Goes to Intergeo BY Tim Burchs CONTRIBUTING EDITOR DEFENSE I traveled to Berlin for Intergeo 2017 an international trade show for everything geospatial Several contemporaries warned me beforehand about the size and scale of the facility the number of vendors and the large spaces occupied by the big survey players Thinking this rhetoric was hyperbole I went with guarded expectations Boy was I in for big surprise My account is broken into four sections one hall per day NovAtel Leica Laser Technology and Septentrio were among the first booths I encountered on day one Javad ComNav Hemisphere and Emlid were in the next hall over and can be found Behind Door Number Two The third day I hobnobbed with CHC Navigation EOS and Swift Navigation look for them under Ill Take Hall Three for 200 Alex I topped off my Intergeo experience interviewing NavCom Tersus and Trimble in The Big Finish UAVs for emergency cell phone service package delivery Uber taxis Game based learning improves training engagement HOTTEST PAGES @ GPSWORLD COM 4 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM DECEMBER 2017 Read all three columns at gpsworld com category opinions BY Tony Murfin CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PROFESSIONAL OEM UAV I f you blink in the fast moving unmanned aerial systems industry you might get blindsided something new and significant happens all the time Weve heard about drones being developed to provide temporary cell phone service before but few have been actually used until hurricanes Irma and Maria double devastated the Caribbean islands AT Ts flying COW Cell On Wings is being deployed in Puerto Rico to provide temporary voice and data coverage Package delivery testing in the U S shows promise but China is already using drones to deliver fruit Antonov Russian manufacturer of the huge AN 225 has rolled out a mid sized UAV Uber is working towards flying taxis Despite this great progress idiots are trying to destroy it by flying drones into passenger aircraft on final approach J A N U A R Y W E B I N A R Register free at gpsworld com webinar January 18 2018 CURRENT HIGH RESOLUTION AERIAL MAPS NEW CAPABILITIES AND USE CASES SPONSORED BY By William Tewolow CONTRIBUTING EDITOR GEOINTELLIGENCE M ost of us know about serious games that teach real world applications Flight simulators are the most well known example Learning to fly multi million dollar aircraft is simply too costly and too dangerous to train wholly in the real world Pilots spend thousands of hours in simulators learning to deal with emergency situations Doctors spend many hours doing simulated procedures as do folks in the military police and emergency response Immersive training in virtual simulated environments is the only way to become fully proficient F O R 3 6 5 D A Y S E N D I N G N O V 1 7 2 0 1 7 1 BeiDou launch schedule shared ENEWS 2 Upcoming GNSS satellite launches SITE PAGE 3 Anti jam technology Demystifying the CRPA Defense newsletter INSIGHTS 4 Surveyors coordinate systems for 2022 and beyond Survey Scene newsletter INSIGHTS 5 NASA describes expected impact of total eclipse on GPS ENEWS 6 Big news from Broadcom 30 cm positioning for consumers Professional OEM newsletter INSIGHTS 7 Spoofing in the Black Sea What really happened Defense newsletter ENEWS 8 3 atomic clocks fail on 1 Indian satellite replacement prepped ENEWS 9 GPS World Webinars SITE PAGE 10 The day GPS went away Survey Scene newsletter INSIGHTS