Welcome back to ESA ESTEC in The Netherlands!

It is with great pleasure that we announce the next European Navigation Conference will take place from 21-24 May 2024 at ESA ESTEC in The Netherlands. Building on a very successful event in 2023, ENC2024 will be brought to you as a collaboration led by RIN, with support from the Netherlands Institute of Navigation and across the European Group of Institutes of Navigation (EUGIN).

The central role the ESTEC facility plays in European navigation missions and innovation makes such a fitting venue for the ENC. We would like to thank the European Space Agency (ESA) for their continued support in extending the opportunity to meet again at ESTEC in Noordwijk for ENC2024.

The main theme of the conference is Resilient Navigation. While the 20th Century was focussed on the provision of ubiquitous and accurate Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), the 21st Century’s focus has shifted to ensuring that PNT services may be trusted and are reliable and resilient. As we move to more and more systems that are either fully automated, or are automated to the point of human complacency, there is now wide recognition of the need for PNT systems that will operate in unprecedented threat-challenged environments (both civil and military); continuously provide usability and integrity status; fail very rarely; and when they do fail, do so safely, securely and elegantly.

Overall navigation system resilience requires the vulnerabilities of not only the core systems but also those of associated systems and data to also be addressed, including mapping information, related databases, routing/path definition, guidance and control.

The ENC 2024 Resilient Navigation theme addresses:

• The current state-of-the art in terms of resilience across all modes of navigation (on land, at sea, in the air and in space)
• Planned and current mitigations to known vulnerabilities and other factors to increase resilience, including systems approaches and operational

Papers for the conference are invited which address this core theme, from all perspectives, including technical, operational, legislative/regulatory matters and human factors.

This will be a broad and inter-disciplinary conference for every professional with an interest in the fields of positioning, navigation and timing: scientists, technicians, policy makers, and above all, users.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Smart Transportation Industry Expo will be held on August 24th, 2023 at the Canton Fair Exhibition Hall in Guangzhou. It aims to promote the global modern transportation construction, boost the development of the Belt and Road Initiative, deepen the cooperation among countries in the transportation industry, and help domestic and foreign enterprises enter the markets of those countries.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is built to be a flourishing world-class city cluster, an international science and technology innovation center and an important hub for the Belt and Road Initiative. The city cluster is one of the most inclusive, open and dynamic regions in China, and plays a pivotal role in the global economy. As the venue of this exhibition, the city cluster will give full play to its geographic advantages, advance the international cooperation in production capacity, and stimulate the companies to “bring in and go global”. It is going to present a grand event for exhibitors to attract investment of smart transportation, information technology application, smart port, green travel and mass rail transit. We hereby sincerely invite your institution or company to participate in the exhibition.

Time: August 24^th to 26^th, 2023

Location: Canton Fair Exhibition Hall D Zone in Guangzhou, China

Contact: wuyujanepineapple@gmail.com

The main theme of the conference is Resilient Navigation. Vulnerability of satellite-based position and timing information is widely recognized. The need for resilience requires redundancy in the signal domain, terrestrial and space infrastructures and on-board implementation. It also requires vulnerabilities to be addressed in navigation functions, data, guidance and control.

31 may – 2 June 2023

ESA Estec, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

Link: https://www.enc2023.eu/

The 29th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems will be held by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation – Concern Central Scientific and Research Institute Elektropribor, JSC (St. Petersburg, Russia) on 30 May – 1 June 2022.

This annual Conference has become a traditional event for scientists and engineers from all over the world involved in navigation and motion control to share the results of their investigations and discuss prospects for the future.

INWE is a biennial event organized and sponsored by the Israel Association for Automatic Control (IAAC).

Following the huge success of previous events, IAAC is now starting to organise the 2022 edition, scheduled for 31 January next, at the Daniel Hotel, Herzliya, Israel. This workshop is a one day event dedicated to technical talks that range from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results.

Topics of interest include positioning, navigation, and timing in all their variations, sensors, systems, optimal integration of multiple sensors, and novel or emerging technologies in the field of navigation.

Schwerpunkte der Tagung waren Technologien für Ortung, Navigation und Kommunikation und die sich daraus ergebenden Anwendungen, die im alpinen Gelände eingesetzt werden können, aber auch Lösungen und Technologien, die in den Alpenländern entwickelt wurden oder dort zum Einsatz kommen.

Die Tagung zielte darauf ab, Bedarfsträger, Nutzer, Forscher und Entwickler zum Erfahrungsaustausch zusammenzubringen. Sowohl wissenschaftliche Beiträge als auch die Vorstellung praktischer Anwendungsbereiche der Navigation und Positionierung wurden präsentiert. Neben der Navigation kamen auch Kommunikation, Geoinformation und Erdbeobachtung zur Sprache.

Navigation 2021 will bring together experts from industry, research institutions, government agencies and investors whose primary goal is to work together for a more navigable world.

In November 2021, Navigation 2021 will unite two established conferences. The International Navigation Conference (INC) and the European Navigation Conference (ENC) will come together as one truly global showcase.

Navigation 2021 will take place as a virtual conference. We will review the situation in 2021 and if possible run an in-person element to complement the conference.

‘We’re pleased to announce the forthcoming IAAC workshop on Missile Guidance, which (touch wood) will be held in the Daniel Hotel, Herzliya on 18 October, 2021. The workshop is organized by Dr Haim Weiss from RAFAEL. The program and the registration form are available in the workshop invitation and more details can be found in its book of abstracts.’

The World Cargo Symposium (WCS) is the largest and most prestigious annual event of its kind and the only one to bring together key stakeholders from the entire air cargo supply chain. This year it will be held at the Hilton Bomonti, Istanbul, 12 – 14 October.
WCS 2021 is the 14th event in a series and will feature plenary sessions, specialised tracks, workshops and executive summits, tackling aspects of technology and innovation, security and Customs, cargo operations and sustainability.
This event is expected to be attended by over 1,000 representatives in the air cargo business with more than 40 exhibitors; World Cargo Symposium, is to be hosted by Turkish Cargo.

New dates: 27 September – 01 October 2021

Given the travel restriction that have resulted from the novel COVID-19 global pandemic and taking into consideration the general wellbeing of our IGS Community, the Local Organizing Committee and the Governing Board, have decided to reschedule the 2020 IGS Workshop to 27 Sept – 1 Oct, 2021.

Information on the IGS Workshop will be available via our new IGS website and will be updated regularly.

ION GNSS+ is the world’s largest technical meeting and showcase of GNSS technology, products and services. This year’s conference will bring together international leaders in GNSS and related positioning, navigation and timing fields to present new research, introduce new technologies, discuss current policy, demonstrate products and exchange ideas.

Unable to attend in person?

ION GNSS+ 2021 will include a virtual option for those who are unable to travel. Virtual Registration offers access to all on-demand conference content, live streams of select sessions, proceedings, as well as recordings of the sessions that were live streamed during the conference.

JNC is the largest U.S. military Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) conference of the year with joint service and government participation. The event focuses on technical advances in PNT with emphasis on joint development, test and support of affordable PNT systems, logistics and integration. From an operational perspective the conference will focus on advances in battlefield applications of GPS; critical strengths and weaknesses of field navigation devices; warfighter PNT requirements and solutions; and navigation warfare.

FEDCON U.S. only conference attendance (August 24-26), held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, will be screened by the Joint Navigation Warfare Center and will be restricted to US only. The classified session, held at AFIT, will have US only Secret Clearance access (August 27). The exhibit hall (August 25-26) will be open to all conference participants, exhibiting organizations, their employees and related organizations. All materials displayed in the exhibit hall shall be publicly releasable (Publicly Releasable AFTER Review).

The 13th edition of the ESA/JRC International Summerschool on GNSS 2020 will be held in Krakow, in the South of Poland. This location has become possible through the generous support of the European Space Agency (ESA), the Joint Research Centre (EC) and various supporters.

It is the objective of this Summer School to provide the attendees with a comprehensive overview on satellite navigation, starting from the GNSS system, its signals, the processing of the observations in a receiver and finally determining the position-navigation-time (PNT) solution. Many lab work will be carried out to get attendees really ‘hands-on’. In addition, lectures on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Patents as well as on business aspects are given. The future of satellite systems is also discussed. Main emphasis will be put on the development of a group project using innovative ideas and covering all aspects from the idea, business plan, technical realisation till the marketing of the product or the service.

Join the ION on Monday, June 28 at 11:00 a.m. EDT for a complimentary webinar featuring Factor Graph Optimization for GNSS/INS Integration: A Comparison with the Extended Kalman Filter by Weisong Wen, Tim Pfeifer, Xiwei Bai and Li-Ta Hsu.

Factor Graph Optimization for GNSS/INS Integration: A Comparison with the Extended Kalman Filter was published in the Summer 2021 issue of NAVIGATION, Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Volume 68, No. 2, pp. 315-331.

Factor graph optimization (FGO) recently has attracted attention as an alternative to the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for GNSS-INS integration.

The German Institute of Navigation (DGON) and the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR cordially invite you to the International Radar Symposium (IRS) 2021. Following a very successful sequence of Radar Symposia started in Germany 1998, it will now be held in Berlin, Germany.

The International Radar Symposium aims to provide a forum for both academic and industrial professionals in radar from all over the world and to bring together researchers, engineers, experts and students from different organisations to share and discuss both theoretical and practical knowledge.
We invite everybody to submit outstanding and valuable original research papers and participate in the technical exhibition during the conference.

The TransNav Conference is addressed to scientists and professionals in order to share their expert knowledge, experience and research results concerning all aspects of navigation, safety of navigation and sea transportation.

The Fourteenth Edition of the most innovative World conference on maritime transport research designed to find solutions to challenges in waterborne transport, navigation and shipping, mobility of people and goods with respect to energy, infrastructure, environment, safety and security as well as to the economic issues.

Reliable navigation and positioning are becoming essential in applications for IoT in industry and logistic applications, in smart city environments, for safety-critical purposes, in public services and consumer products to guarantee transparent, efficient and reliable workflows. A robust localization solution, which will be available continuously is needed regardless outdoor and indoor, and on different platforms. ICL-GNSS addresses the latest research on wireless and satellite-based positioning techniques to provide reliable and accurate position information with low latency. The emphasis is on the design of mass-market navigation receivers and related tools and methodologies, but also many kinds of sensing devices, wireless systems with localization capabilities, and location-aware applications are within the scope of ICL-GNSS.

The 28th Saint Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems will be held by the State Research Center of the Russian Federation – Concern Central Scientific and Research Institute Elektropribor, JSC, on 31 May-02 June 2021.

Tentative topics:

– Inertial sensors, navigation and orientation systems

– Integrated navigation and motion control systems

– Global navigation satellite systems

– Gravimetric aids to navigation

Other topics can be added.

The Conference program includes plenary and poster papers. Invited papers and Panel Discussion are scheduled. All presentations at the Conference will be held in English or Russian and will be simultaneously interpreted.

The Brijuni Conferences bring an up-to-date perspective of the present state of a given topic with the fundamental scientific philosophy to stimulate a cross-disciplinary flow of knowledge and expertise from both the science and technology standpoints. The topic of the conference is to discuss some of the major challenges for humans settling in Space that must be explored by the tools of science and technology. At the hearth of these challenges are communication, navigation and propulsion. New ideas that meet these challenges shall be discussed in the interdisciplinary spirit and informal flow of ideas.

Because of the global Coronavirus situation, the Baška GNSS Conference will not take place in Baška in May 2020. The organising team has decided to hold the event in May 2021. We hope that the event will be able to take place in person, but if not then it will go ahead virtually.

We hope that the extra time will allow authors to take their work further, do more analysis, to write more and better papers for the Baška GNSS Conference when it returns! The Call for Papers remains open and the conference will be back, so please submit your abstracts when you are ready.

On behalf of all at the Royal Institute of Navigation, please be well and be safe and we look forward to updating you later about our next meeting in Baška.

Proceedings of the 2019 Baška Conference are available.

Restricted access to training facilities combined with possible spikes in traffic levels, and the replacement of ICAO’s COVID-19 Contingency Related Differences (CCRD) by a Targeted Exemptions System from 1 April give rise to many challenges related to training operational staff.

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, airlines and ANSPs have been working to address challenges related to training, and drive solutions to ensure competency of operational personnel. Join us for the second episode to gain insights from industry experts on the respective measures airlines and ANSPs are taking as well as best practices that can be implemented during the recovery phase.

ION’s Pacific PNT Conference is a global cooperative development of Positioning, Navigation and Timing technology and applications where policy and technical leaders from Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, Australia, the United States and more meet to discuss policy updates, receive program status updates and exchange technical information.

Pacific PNT has been rescheduled to take place in 2022. No dates have been fixed yet.

The symposium will bring together key stakeholders from industry, academia, government and international organizations in the unmanned aviation sector to exchange best practices, lessons learned, research material and challenges related to the introduction of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS traffic management (UTM).

On the second day of the symposium, panel speakers will be featured from those who comprehensively responded to the problem statement in our revised Request For Information (RFI) regarding the advancement of the ICAO UTM framework.

The symposium will showcase the breadth of existing technologies, ongoing research and development, as well as describe commercial and non-commercial activities in this rapidly evolving sector of the aviation industry.

The Institute of Navigation will host the Navigation of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover from Earth to Jezero Crater webinar on 23 March at 1:30 p.m. EDT. The webinar will be presented by Gerhard Kruizinga, Navigation Engineer, Mars 2020 Navigation Team Chief, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and moderated by Dr. Frank van Diggelen, ION President.

‘We are honored to have the Navigation Team Chief of this historic mission, Gerhard Kruizinga, present his first-hand account of getting NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover from the launch pad to a safe landing on Mars’ said Dr. van Diggelen, ION President.

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