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.

embedded world – the leading international fair for embedded systems

Be it security for electronic systems, distributed intelligence, the Internet of Things or e-mobility and energy efficiency – the embedded world trade fair in Nuremberg enables you to experience the whole world of embedded systems.

The mobile industry is working together to ensure people stay connected during these difficult times, while remaining optimistic about the return to normality including a great MWC Barcelona 2021.

In light of the advice from the Australian Federal Government and with the current travel bans and need to safeguard our space research community at large, COSPAR 2021 will continue as planned, but with the addition of a major on-line component enabling the Assembly to become a hybrid in-person / virtual event.

The very extensive and indeed excellent program that our Scientific Program Committee assembled for COSPAR-2020 will be carried over to the new dates, along with the line-up of inspirational international and national speakers, the interdisciplinary workshops, as well as immersive social opportunities.

We are developing an approach that guarantees that every Interdisciplinary Speaker, oral presentation, poster presentation and workshop will occur at least once in a time zone friendly to attendees. Presentations will be a mix of in-person presentations from Sydney, live streaming and pre-recorded sessions.

The Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting is an annual conference sponsored by ION with a technical program designed to disseminate and coordinate PTTI information at the user level, review present and future PTTI requirements, inform government and industry engineers, technicians, and managers of precise time and frequency technology and its problems, and provide an opportunity for an active exchange of new technology associated with PTTI.

In 2021, PTTI will be co-located with the ION International Technical Meeting, in San Diego, California.

A commercial exhibit and pre-conference tutorials are held in conjunction with the conference.

Tutorials will be offered on January 25; technical sessions will take place January 26-28.

Marine aids to navigation manufacturer Sealite welcomes Francis Zachariae (FZ), Secretary-General of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) to speak on his organisation in a forthcoming webinar.

Francis will discuss the history of IALA and the organisation’s focus on the development of standards and guidelines to ensure the safety of all mariners. He will also discuss IALA’s strategic move towards becoming an intergovernmental organisation (IGO).

The webinar will be held on December 15, 2020, 1100 hrs Paris time. Previous webinars can be viewed here.

You can register here.

Celebrate the past, inspire the future. As AGU marks its Centennial in 2019, we return to San Francisco, the home of the AGU Fall Meeting for more than 40 years. Join our diverse community at the newly renovated Moscone Center as we collaborate across borders and boundaries to explore and develop our research. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in Centennial presentations and special events that will bring to life the past, present and the future of our science.

As part of Amsterdam Drone Week.

Dear friends from the worldwide satellite navigation family,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you again in Germany in the beautiful city of Dresden. On behalf of the Program Committee of the European Satellite Navigation Conference (ENC 2020) the German Institute of Navigation (DGON) is very pleased to welcome everybody cordially to the ENC 2020 in Dresden.

Tackle ActInSpace’s challenges and unleash your entrepreneurial potential! ActInSpace® is an international innovation contest inspiring young women and men worldwide to meet challenges based on space technologies, data, patents and infrastructures to launch start-ups into all areas of our daily lives.

Designed for students but open to everyone, the objective is to foster entrepreneurship, encourage start-up creation and promote the use of space technologies and space acquired data to change citizen’s lives, to boost employment and to protect our planet.

NAVITECH is Russia’s largest project which brings together global leaders of the satellite navigation, navigation and information technologies, geodesy and mapping market.

More than 8,000 representatives of the business community, government and science from 26 countries will come to NAVITECH to search for new navigation solutions for commercial and social purposes.

The biennial IHMA congress provides a unique forum in which formal Association meetings are combined with a conference, extensive networking program and an exhibition – displaying equipment, services and technical developments relevant to the ports and harbour sector and providing both local and international sponsors and exhibitors with a unique marketing platform.

The 2020 IHMA Congress is an unparalleled opportunity for maritime businesses to showcase their services and for port marine professionals from around the world to network, share their experiences and update their professional knowledge.

It was announced from HQ in Manassas Virginia, on 23 April that the IEEE/ION PLANS 2020, originally scheduled to take place in April, has been rescheduled and renamed IEEE/ION PLANSx 2020 for later in the year.

The IEEE/ION PLANSx 2020 technical programme will include a collection of the peer-reviewed papers originally scheduled to be presented in April. Delegates from both meetings will have the freedom to flow between ION GNSS+ and IEEE/ION PLANSx technical presentations and attend the ION GNSS+ commercial exhibit.

The ION has announced that the annual ION GNSS+ 2020 conference will now be held entirely virtual. This decision was made after careful consideration and in light of COVID-19 and the domestic and international travel restrictions that make it impossible for many speakers and participants to participate in person.

ION GNSS+ 2020 VIRTUAL will be held over the original dates, September 21-25, in Central Daylight Time and will live stream the plenary and all panel keynote sessions, including the Civil GPS Service Committee meeting, through the virtual web platform. These sessions will also be recorded and uploaded for viewing at a later time. Interactive question and answer will take place virtually.

3,100 professionals from 54 countries attended the 2019 edition of Commercial UAV Expo Americas, cementing its position as the leading conference and expo for the commercial drone market.

An expansive education program features more than 200 thought leaders sharing information and best practices.

The fifth annual Commercial UAV Expo Americas in 2019 broke all prior records, with 202 exhibitors from around the world showcasing the latest drone technology.

Papers being sought which may include, but are not limited to the following topics:

How flows of goods and people are affected by processes of ‘strengthening’ borders

The experience of mobile workers and working at borders

Representations and subjectivities of people crossing, or wanting to cross, borders

Illegal and clandestine border crossings

Borders as places of rest, waiting, conflict and conviviality

Implications of re-bordering for just-in-time production and logistical systems

Border crossings and nationalism

Abstracts (c.250 words) for oral presentations should include a title, and the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors. Deadline for submission of abstracts: Monday 3rd February 2020. Responses from session convenors by: Friday 7th February 2020. The session convenors will communicate the RGS response as soon as informed by the organisers after the 14th February session proposal deadline. `Deadline for reduced rate (‘early-bird’) registrations: 12th June 2020.

Abstracts should be submitted to Debbie.hopkins – at – ouce.ox.ac.uk by Monday 3rd February 2020.

Action required: To ask member companies, shipowners, managers, port operators and any relevant national stakeholder to encourage ships captains to sound their horns when in port at 12.00 local on Wednesday, 8 July as a way of reminding governments not to forget the crew change issue ahead of a ministerial summit meeting on the subject.

It’s well known that GPS and other satellite navigation systems are vulnerable to disruption. The MarRINav project provides a phased approach towards achieving resilient positioning, navigation and timing in the maritime domains.

During the webinar, industry insiders, Emily Ciesielski, Channel Sales Manager, and Callum Scougal, Sales Engineer at MicaSense will breakdown the added values and insights users can gain from superspectral imaging, which includes use cases like aquatic weed detection, drone/satellite comparison analysis, species classification, coastal mapping and more.

The IADC Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation is a unique chance to receive invaluable hands-on experience. The in-depth lectures are given by dredging experts from IADC member companies as Boskalis, DEME, Jan de Nul and Van Oord, whose practical knowledge and experience add an extra value to the classroom lessons.

In addition to the above, there is no other dredging seminar where the workshop exercises are covering a complete tender process, from start to finish.

Will be moved to September.

The 2020 VTS-ENAV Symposium, themed Enhanced Maritime Safety and Efficiency by Connectivity, will be held 25 to 29 May 2020 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Symposium Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit abstracts of proposed presentations for the VTS-ENAV Symposium, on any of the topics listed below, or on any other topic considered to be in alignment with the theme of the Symposium.

Postponed to 2021.