The Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 24-26 at the Catamaran Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego California.

Paul Kline of Honeywell Aerospace is the general chair.  Jade Morton of Miami University, Ohio, is the program chair.

"Robotics Navigation" is the plenary session topic.  Invited speakers will discuss current trends and future technologies that support navigation for surveillance, search and rescue, undergound and underwater robotics and unmanned air vehicles.

For a list of session topics, go to the website below.  One of the sessions covers QZSS, Japan's September 11 launch of its first quasi-zenith satellite and initial performance test reports.  Takeyasu Saki of ENRI and Toshiaki Iwata of AISI, co-chair that session.

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