GPS World, December 2015

OUT IN FRONT WWW GPSWORLD COM EDITORIAL Editor in Chief Group Publisher Alan Cameron editor@ gpsworld com 541 984 5312 Managing Editor Tracy Cozzens tcozzens@ northcoastmedia net 541 255 3334 Senior Digital Editor Joelle Harms jharms@ northcoastmedia net 216 706 3780 Digital Editor Allison Barwacz abarwacz@ northcoastmedia net 216 706 3796 Art Director Charles Park EDITORIAL PRODUCITON OFFICES 1360 East 9th St Suite 1070 Cleveland OH 44114 USA 847 763 4942 Fax 847 763 9694 www gpsworld com gpsworld@ gpsworld com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Innovation Richard Langley lang@ unb ca Defense PNT Don Jewell djewell@ gpsworld com European GNSS Tim Reynolds treynolds@ gpsworld com Professional OEM Tony Murfin tmurfin@ gpsworld com Geospatial Eric Gakstatter egakstatter@ gpsworld com GeoIntelligence Art Kalinski akalinski@ gpsworld com Survey Tim Burch and Dave Zilkoski Wireless LBS Insider Kevin Dennehy kdennehy@ gpsworld com MANUSCRIPTS GPS World welcomes unsolicited articles but cannot be held 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northcoastmedia net 216 706 3705 Editorial Directors Marisa Palmieri mpalmieri@ northcoastmedia net 216 706 3764 Marty Whitford mwhitford@ northcoastmedia net 216 706 3766 VP Graphic Design Production Pete Seltzer pseltzer@ northcoastmedia net 216 706 3737 Reach for the Sky BY Alan Cameron EDITOR IN CHIEF AND GROUP PUBLISHER W e have grown accustomed to seeing market projections for some GNSS notably Galileo European GNSS Agency economists have done a remarkable job analyzing and predicting the global market over the past five years Business intelligence firms in the United States periodically report on the power of GPS driving or participating in significant portions of the U S economy Figures from Russia are scant but do occasionally emerge even if they are difficult to integrate into a meaningful global picture Now the Global Navigation Satellite System and Location based Services Association of China GLAC has issued a report asserting some lofty often staggering and occasionally surprising statistics and projections Chinas satnav system is helping generate 313 billion for the country this year That benefit is expected to double in five years 70 percent of Chinas population uses smartphones Thats 980 million people who may be sending location requests at any given time This constitutes the biggest growth sector found by the GLAC Chinas installed base of navigation devices in private vehicles lags behind the United States at less than 500000 or 5 percent of cars but 20 percent of 1 million commercial vehicles in China use products that access BeiDou technology Skys the Limit for BeiDous Clients crowed China Daily Meanwhile halfway round the world in Prague the Czech Republic Jing Li of the China Transport Telecommunication Information Center reported to a conference of the International Association of Institutes of Navigation that a BeiDou global service will be provided by 2020 The National Differential BeiDou Ground Based Augmentation System will have 175 reference stations with more than 1000 network stations and a space based augmentation system to boot So far the system has hit every benchmark Some market projection figures strike one as wildly optimistic while others have proved true Some GNSS appear to grow or modernize in fits and starts But BeiDou appears steadily ascendant 6 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM DECEMBER 2015