GPS World, October 2009

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cannot take any responsibility for any losses or other damages incurred by readers in reliance on such content Published monthly Give the Makers What They Want W ho has the best and most current information about what GNSS users in the field need or want Who keeps close tabs on developing cutting edge applications of GNSS technology Who stays well informed on modernization plans at least those that are publicly released for GPS GLONASS Galileo and Compass GNSS manufacturers thats who What tops these manufacturers wish lists for GNSS development If they could take over direction of the four satellite programs what would they do Choices include but are certainly not limited to new signals rapid or at least Absorbing user concerns and knowledge of future possibilities manufacturer concerns represent a higher order on time delivery of operational capability of new signals publication of signal ICDs more satellites different satellite geometries aspects of interoperability between two or more systems various forms of GNSS back up by different technologies augmentation systems whether satellite based or ground based anything The editorial intent of our October webinar see page 4 is not only to provide a forum for manufacturers vis à vis satellite system operators but to provide insight to all listeners as to where the market s applications users and research and development are moving or looking into And anything else that might develop from the speakers thoughts and online discussion Plus your questions taken at the conclusion of their 45 minute jam session By the time you read this I will have finished my short presentation to the plenary session of the 49th Civil GPS Service Interface Committee meeting in Savannah There I talked about user concerns valid of course highly so But I believe manufacturer concerns absorbing as they do many or most user concerns and projecting them forward into various scenarios both economic and systematic folding in a healthy measure of technical knowledge as to what may or may not be possible in many cases what they have already demonstrated to their own satisfaction but not yet told the world represent a higher order The CGSIC exists in part of course to serve as a forum for industry among other users to express its views to system operators Yet in my admittedly limited experience of CGSIC what I have heard is mostly system operators talking And generally saying things that most people in the room already knew Hmmm To their credit CGSIC organizers have striven recently to increase outside voices participation from the floor so to speak in the meetings presentations and panel discussions thus my own good fortune to address the body But there remains a distance to travel to reach a true feedback loop Keep on pushing Of course the prime user driving system development and this holds not merely for GPS but for other GNSS as well is the military Thus their needs get first weighing Recall however that just like that other military invention the Internet industry ideas research and development have exploded GNSS growth concepts and benefits far beyond what they might be today had only military considerations been taken into account For more of this good medicine lets all listen in Closely Letters to Editor invited email to eic@ gpsworld com GPS World October 2009 www gpsworld com 6