Google Maps Navigation were announced as beta release in these days. The application requires to be connected to the Internet (no surprise) and guides the car driver with voice and the usual car navigation symbols through the streets. Basically it…
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The third attempt to launch a new generation of GPS satellites with a Delta IV rocket has been aborted in literally the last seconds. The full report can be here. As the radial outward firing ignitors were already lit there…
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As it happens quite often that I need to know whether a GEONET or IGS receiver is close to a location which is of some interest for my studies I appreciate the work done by Takasu-san, who prepared GoogleEarth overlays…
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Now it is official, we are getting the EPS award for our paper about ray-tracing. It seems that the award ceremony will take place during the JPGU meeting in May, held in Makuari. Thanks to everybody who contributed to the…
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When running the GPS software receiver one post-processing task is to decode the navigation message bits into meaningful human-readable format. Thus, the 6 parity bits which are transmitted after each 24 message bits are valuable to distinguish if the decoding…
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