Meetings
The Alberta Section typically hosts five meetings per year; roughly one every two months from September to June. Anyone is welcome to attend the meetings for a minimal fee, which includes lunch and at least one presentation. We aim to cover a wide range of navigation topics and presenters are often recognized internationally for their work.
Location and Directions
The location of the next meeting will be announced shortly. The University campus, including public parking lots, is available at http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/.
Upcoming Meetings
The date and location of the next ION Alberta Chapter meeting will be announced soon.
Previous Meetings
On February 12, 2010 Dr. Gerard Lachapelle, Professor and iCORE/CRC Research Chair at the University of Calgary, gave a presentation about his ongoing work to support the Canadian Alpine Ski Team. (download here).
On December 4, 2009 Dr. Todd Walter, Professor at Stanford University, gave a presentation on The Wide Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS) (download here).
On October 2, 2009 Drs. Ali Broumandan and Cillian O'Driscoll, Post-Doctoral Fellows in the PLAN Group at the University of Calgary gave presentations. Dr. Broumandan's presentation was titled Enhanced Narrowband Signal Detection and Estimation with a Synthetic Antenna Array for Location Applications (download here) and Dr. O'Driscoll's presentation was titled Enhanced GNSS Indoor Signal Detectability Using Polarization Diversity (download here).
On June 26, 2009 Dr. Jade Morton, Professor at Miami University, Ohio, gave a presentation titled GPS Self-Interference and Mitigation Methods (download here).
On June 2, 2009 Dr. Chaminda Basnayake, Senior Research Engineer at General Motors, gave a presentation titled GPS-Based Navigation & Positioning Challenges in Communications-Enabled Driver Assistance Systems (download here).
On May 29, 2009 Dr. Per Enge, Kleiner-Perkins Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, gave a presentation titled On Location at Stanford University (download here).
On February 6, 2009 Dr. Michael Braasch, Director, Avionics Engineering Center, Ohio University, gave a presentation titled Iron Stomachs and White Knuckles: Navigation Flight Testing at the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center.
On November 21, 2008 Janet Neumann, Waldemar Kunysz and Sara Masterson of NovAtel Inc. gave a presentation titled New Product Innovations at NovAtel.
On October 3, 2008 Mr. Pejman Kazemi and Mr. Jared Bancroft, two PhD candidates in the PLAN Group at the University of Calgary, gave presentations they had given at the ION GNSS 2008 conference in Savannah, GA. Mr. Kazemi's presentation was titled Comparison of Assisted and Stand-Alone Methods for Increasing Coherent Integration Time for Weak GPS Signal Tracking (download here) for which he won a Best Presentation Award. Mr. Bancroft's presentation was titled Twin IMU-HSGPS Integration for Pedestrian Navigation (download here).
On April 17, 2008 Dr. Daniele Borio, Senior Research Engineer in the PLAN Group at the University of Calgary, gave a presentation titled Acquisition of Composite GNSS Signals. His presentation is available for download here.
On February 1, 2008 Dr. Oleg Salychev of Russia-based TeKnol Ltd, gave a presentation titled Low Cost Integrated INS in Applications: TeKnol Ltd Activities.
On January 25, 2008 Mr. Phil Gabriel, VP & General Manager of the Precision Products Business Unit at Hemisphere GPS, gave a presentation titled The 'New' Hemisphere GPS. His presentation is available for download here.
On November 22, 2007 Ms. Sandra Kennedy, SPAN Functional Manager at NovAtel, Inc., gave a presentation titled NovAtel's GNSS + INS Prodcuts. Her presentation is available for download here.
On October 19, 2007 Drs. Mark Petovello and Cillian O'Driscoll, Senior Research Engineers in the PLAN Group at the University of Calgary, gave a presentation titled PLAN Group's Software-Based Receiver: Current Status, Ongoing Work and Ultra-Tight GNSS/INS Integration. Their presentation is available for download here.
On June 14, 2007 Ms. Grace Gao, a PhD student from Stanford University, gave a presentation titled Decoding Galileo and Compass Codes. Grace's presentation is available for download here.
On April 24, 2007 Mr. Gary Sawayama of the Canadian Council on Geomatics gave a presentation titled CDGPS: The Real-Time Canada-Wide DGPS Service. Gary's presentation is available for download here.
On February 27, 2007 Dr. Andrey Soloviev of Ohio University's Avionics Engineering Center gave a presentation titled Utilizing Batch Processing for GNSS Signal Tracking. Andrey's presentation is available for download here.
On January 26, 2007 Larry Hothem of the US Geological Survey gave a presentation titled Operating GNSS Equipment in Antarctica: Experiences, Challenges and Solutions. Larry's presentation is available for download here.
On December 1, 2006 Neil Gerein of NovAtel gave a presentation titled The Revised IS-GPS-200D Specification New Spreading Codes and A Brief Introduction to IS-GPS-800 Spreading Codes. Neil's presentation is available for download here.