Category: Past Meetings

Robert Odolinski, Associate Professor in Geodesy/GNSS at the School of Surveying, University of Otago, New Zealand presented “Precise GNSS positioning with Android smartphones and on the use of the best integer equivariant estimator” [download here]

John Studenny, Technical Fellow, CMC Electronics, presented about spoofers, their characteristics, a simple but reliable means of detecting spoofers, ARAIM, the concept of an “ARAIM constellation hypothesis”, and a combined ARAIM and Baseline Spoofing Detector.

Three students from the University of Calgary presented their papers from the 2023 ION GNSS+ Conference held this past September.

Continue reading “ION Alberta In-person and Virtual Meeting – Tuesday, 17 October, 2023”

We were excited to present our next in person lecture series where Mike Horton presented the Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network.

This meeting was also our AGM and election.

Continue reading “ION Alberta In-person and Virtual Meeting and AGM – Monday, June 26, 2023”

Daniel Ammann, presented the onocoy’s project, in a virtual lecture. Continue reading “ION Alberta Virtual Meeting – Tuesday May 23, 2023”

After an almost 3-year hiatus, the ION Alberta Section met in person on Thursday October 27 and Room EN B112 at the University of Calgary. We attempted to run a hybrid meeting, with attendees in person and on Zoom.

Continue reading “ION Alberta In-person and Virtual Meeting – Thursday October 27, 2022”

For a change from 2 years of virtual meetings, on Saturday May 14, 2022 the ION Alberta Section participated in an introduction to the sport of orienteering that was hosted by the Foothills Wanderers Orienteering Club. Eight members spent two hours on Saturday morning learning how to read maps and run between waypoints. No GPS allowed! Timing is managed by a set of RFID readers with synchronized clocks. The club hosts weekly evening events on Wednesdays.

Continue reading “ION Alberta Virtual Meeting – Tuesday March 15, 2022”

Dr. Tyler Reid, co-founder and CTO of Xona Space Systems presented “A New Space Approach to Commercial LEO PNT.” [download here]

Continue reading “ION Alberta Virtual Meeting – Thursday December 16, 2021”

Three Unversity of Calgary Student Papers from ION GNSS+ 2021 were presented. ION GNSS+ is the worlds largest technical meeting on GNSS positioning and technology. Each year the University of Calgary sends multiple students who present award winning research on their respective topics.
Continue reading “ION Alberta Virtual Meeting – Thursday November 25, 2021”