GPS World, February 2016

ONLINENOW NEWSLETTER EXCERPT The GNSS of Things Geospatial Tower of Babel 4 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM FEBRUARY 2016 UAV Rules Moves Update BY Tim Reynolds CONTRIBUTING EDITOR EUROPE BY art kalinski CONTRIBUTING EDITOR GEOINTELLIGENCE BY Tony murfin CONTRIBUTING EDITOR PROFESSIONAL OEM S of tware off e r i n g a n open source innovation platform for the GNSS of Things won the Special Prize in the Galileo Masters competition Another entry showed opportunities at the interface of Galileo and Copernicus the EUs Earth observation satellite project The UK government published its first ever space policy document and I am amazed as well as somewhat surprised that it took so long The winner of the European GNSS Agency Special Prize at the Masters was Rafael Olemedo a serial GNSS innovator and entrepreneur his KYNEO concept is very much of the moment The Internet of Things IoT the integration of uniquely identifiable devices on the Internet is one of the main current global technology themes and GNSS is integral to its success Location based services and timing data are essential to IoT applications in particular as a means to control and monitor mobile IoT devices The basis of the KYNEO concept is a real need to be able to fast prototype applications and devices in the rapidly developing IoT field Rafael describes KYNEO as an open innovation platform for the GNSS of Things In 2012 Rafael won with his 3DSound idea integration of acoustic binaural technologies and GNSS for personal navigation Read Tims complete column at www gpsworld com opinions A session at a recent GEOINT workshop focused on OpenSensorHub and related information published on GitHub Its aim clearing the path for use of geospatial capable devices via the Internet thus preventing a geospatial Tower of Babel Today plug and play is common in mass market devices such as printers scanners and cameras But most other devices can still present maddening connection challenges This phenomena presents itself in spades when trying to integrate sensors data and geospatial databases whether in yor own office or across the Internet OpenSensorHub is a license free open source software platform for geospatial FOSS4G sensors that allows you to easily rapidly and affordably network sensors into a seamless SensorWeb of real time locationaware interoperable web accessible services With OpenSensorHub these OGC compliant SensorWebs can be enabled across all manner of space based airborne mobile in situ and terrestrial remote sensors including your basic mobile device OpenSensorHub finally makes it possible to integrate location aware sensors into the geospatial mainstream Read Arts complete column at www gpsworld com opinions A Fe d e r a l Aviation Adminsistration fact sheet in mid December 2015 outlined safety reasons for federal oversight of aviation and airspace and explained federal responsibility The object appears to be to let states know that the FAA has federal jurisdiction and is therefore in charge of regulating access to and operations in the U S national air space NAS The sheet perhaps also aims to slow recent local efforts Miami Albany County and New Jersey to publish their own UAV ordinances Meanwhile the FAAs new UAV registration requirements for anything unmanned that takes to the air in the U S have met with mixed reactions U S drone operators have registered more than 300000 UAVs but one individual has filed a suit against the FAA AUVSI which represents a good portion of the UAS industry has come out supporting the FAAs UAV registration program To help move UAV integration forward NASA has been working on traffic management concepts for UAS The first section of this system was tested in August looking mostly at topics such as geofencing so drones automatically avoid certain restricted areas and also trajectory planning NASA Google Amazon and Verizon have all been looking into UAS Traffic Management UTM systems Read Tonys complete column at www gpsworld com opinions