The date is fast approaching for the first Galileo signals to be broadcast from space. In anticipation of this event, NovAtel has undertaken various Galileo related projects over the past three years. Projects have included sample level software simulations sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and a single frequency BOC(1,1) receiver prototype sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA...

Throughout the last decade, a trend towards the development of software-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers has evolved in the fields of scientific research. Software-based GNSS receivers feature a high flexibility for the adaptation to several applications, serve as a development platform for studying new algorithms and techniques, and especially have the advantage of req...

This paper demonstrates a real-time software receiver supporting GPS/WAAS dual-frequency (L1/L5) processing. The software receiver is implemented on a widely-available recent generation multi-core processor and is capable of post-processing datasets from collection hardware. Key contributions of this software receiver are that 1) it is perhaps the first receiver capable positioning solely on L5...

Currently, high precision kinematic GPS positioning with centimetre level accuracy can only be carried out using differential GPS (DGPS) positioning techniques which require the deployment of base receiver stations. The requirement to deploy base receiver stations, however, spatially limits the operating range of the rover receiver to about 20 km from the base stations. As a result, it not only...

Five years ago, co-author Ashley Albert surrendered her parental rights to two youngest children the State of Washington. She shares story ostensibly "voluntary" surrender, which was anything but voluntary. This Article goes on address practice permanently severing legal bonds between a parent and child, then State's "replacement" those with new ones via formalized adoption. It informs readers ...

Secondary receivers in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Cognitive Radio (CR) networks combat interference from primary transmitters while equipped with whitening filters. However, when the MIMO secondary users are employing Radio Frequency (RF) beam-forming networks at the transmitter/ receiver front ends to improve the MIMO transmission performance, the whitening filters cannot perform in...