ION Seeks Abstracts for Pacific PNT 2015, PTTI Registration Opens

Abstract submissions are now being accepted for The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Pacific PNT Conference, to be held April 20-23, 2015, at the Waikiki Beach Marriott, Honolulu, Hawaii. Abstracts are due November 14, 2014.

Pacific PNT, where “East Meets West in the Global Cooperative Development of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Technology,” brings together policy and technical leaders from Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea, Australia, the United States, and more for policy updates, program status and technical exchange.

“Global cooperative interoperability” will frame the technical program. Leaders representing academia, government, industry and the scientific community will convene to solve PNT challenges that impact Pacific Rim development.

Pacific PNT 2015 is organized by a Pacific Rim advisory board and will feature technical papers presented on a diverse array of topics including:

• Aircraft Navigation and Surveillance
• Agricultural, Construction and Mining
• Algorithms and Methods
• Alternative Navigation and Signals of Opportunity
• Aviation Applications of GNSS
• Challenging Navigation Problems
• Collaborative Navigation Topics
• Earthquake & Tsunami Prediction and Monitoring with GNSS
• GNSS Augmentations
• GNSS Correction and Monitoring Networks
• GNSS Environmental Monitoring
• GNSS Policy/Status Updates
• GNSS Signal Structures
• Inertial Navigation Technology and Applications
• Interference and Spectrum
• Ionosphere Monitoring with GNSS
• Magnetic Field Navigation and Mapping
• Maritime Navigation
• Nature-Inspired Navigation
• PNT and Automobile Safety
• PNT and Social Media
• PNT for Domestic and Healthcare Applications
• Precision Agriculture and Machine Control
• Time and Frequency Distribution
• UAS Technologies

Abstracts are being accepted through November 14, 2014.  For more information the ION’s Pacific PNT 2015, visit www.ion.org/pnt.

PTTI 2014 Registration Opens

Registration is now open for the ION Precise Time & Time Interval Meeting (PTTI) 2014 to be held December 1-4 at the Seaport Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. The technical program is available online.

The annual PTTI conference has 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.

The Distinguished PTTI Service Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions related to the management of PTTI systems, will be presented on Thursday, December 4.