GNSS and Ubiquitous and Indoor Positioning Tutorials at ENC 2011

London Grange Tower Bridge - Mon 28th November

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Two tutorials will be held covering fundamentals and advanced GNSS principals and technologies and current technologies and systems being developed to achieve Ubiquitous and Indoor Positioning.

The courses are aimed at both new graduates and experienced engineers requiring a refresher course. These tutorials will give you a thorough grounding in GNSS and modern ubiquitous and indoor technologies and applications.

Tutorial 1: GNSS Systems - New Signals, current and future plans

Monday November 28th, 09:00 - 12:30

This course will describe, compare and contrast the current and planned Global Navigation Satellite Systems.

• The current status and proposed modernization of GPS will be described with an emphasis on the benefits that the developments and new signals will bring to a variety of user domains.
• The Russian GLONASS will also be described; documenting the evolution to the systems current status and the planned developments. Comparisons will be drawn between the technical characteristics of the two systems and their uses.
• The European Galileo system will be described in depth, covering the institutional, financial and technical aspects of the program and the system.
• The new proposed signals will be described along with consideration of the international efforts directed towards interoperability of Galileo with GPS and other systems.
• Other nascent and proposed systems will also be described, such as COMPASS, IRNSS and QZSS. In additional Space-Based Augmentation Systems; WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, GAGAN and SDCM will be introduced.

Speakers:

Prof. Terry Moore: Director of the NGI (Nottingham Geospatial Institute) at the University of Nottingham; Professor of satellite navigation.

Dr Chaz Dixon: Business development manager at the GNSS Research & Applications Centre of Excellence (GRACE) at the University of Nottingham.

Tutorial 2 - Ubiquitous/Indoor Positioning

Monday November 28th, 13:30 - 17:00

This tutorial is sponsored by ICT KTN 

This tutorial will introduce and explore current technologies and systems being developed to achieve Ubiquitous and Indoor Positioning. This subject area assumes there is little or no useful information available from satellite navigation systems due to obstruction, attenuation and multipath effects in an indoor environment.

• The tutorial will compare and contrast the single and composite technology solutions being designed to achieve ubiquitous navigation in such a setting.
• Technologies to be evaluated will include: GPS signals, RF-based applications, inertial (INS) and vision based systems, and other signals of opportunity (mobile phones or TV signals).
• This will be supported by a number of case studies to outline reasons for the current unavailability of feasible systems and to present the direction of future development in the field.

Speaker:

Dr Chris Hide: Senior Research Fellow at the NGI, University of Nottingham.

More details and register online. Thank you.