GPS World, July 2015
ONLINE RESOURCES 2 0 1 5 STATE OF THE INDUSTRY SURVEY Take a Selfie with All Your GNSS Peers and Colleagues The 2015 State of the Industry Report compiled from your answers to this Survey will deliver the most accurate and up to date portrait ever published of the GNSS community its individuals companies organizations trends and opinions Even better than 2014 s State of the Industry Between July 15 and August 1 take the online survey that will be posted to www gpsworld com State15 Twenty questions and a prize for answering Youll be entered into a drawing for five 5 cash or product give aways go to www gpsworld com State15 on or after July 15 Complete by August 1 Hottest Pages @ GPSWorld com May 18 June 17 2015 1 TomToms New Devices Have Lifetime Maps Speed Cameras LATEST NEWS 2 Accuracy in the Palm of Your Hand FROM THE MAGAZINE 3 New Airbus A350 Airliner Comes EGNOS Capable See story page 10 LATEST NEWS 4 Establishing Orthometric Heights Using GNSS Part 1 Survey Scene newsletter INSIGHTS 5 Both New Galileo Satellites Now Transmitting LATEST NEWS 6 June 30 Leap Second Worries Markets Internet LATEST NEWS 7 Official Best Practices for June 30 Leap Second Published LATEST NEWS 8 Apple Acquires GPS Company Coherent Navigation LATEST NEWS 9 Autonomous Vehicle Ambitions Behind HERE Suitors Wireless LBS Insider newsletter INSIGHTS 10 On the Road to Driverless FROM THE MAGAZINE NEWSLETTER EXCERPT IoT Its All in the Timing 40th Annual NIST Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar Atomic clocks and even quartz clocks to some extent are affected by elemental and environmental forces and more in the laboratory motion acceleration gravity temperature extremes and more The U S Air Force then takes these delicate clocks atomic Rubidium and Cesium as well as quartz VCXOs and OXOs and By Don Jewell Contributing Editor for Defense launches them with violent maneuvers into space in a Medium Earth Orbit that regularly intersects the Van Allen radiation belt Once on orbit the clocks routinely experience every one of the listed forces and more on both a regular and changing basis Of course we expect the GPS clocks to operate at the same standards and with the same stability and accuracy they displayed in the laboratory Not asking much are we The amazing fact is that thanks to the dedicated scientists and physicists at NIST and other timing laboratories the clocks work as advertised and continue to do so sometimes for more than 20 years Read the full column at gpsworld com opinions presents MARKETINSIGHTS WEBINAR JULY WEBINAR Street Smart City Modeling and Other New Geospatial Techniques in Urban Mapping and Navigation Thursday July 16 10 a m PT 1 p m ET 5 p m GMT Speakers to be announced Join us for a look at the latest enhancements to computerized geometric city models which can help overcome data gaps and inaccuracies created by signal obstruction from both man made and natural features of the urban environment Register at www gpsworld com webinar GPS World July 2015 www gpsworld com 4
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