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Title:: GPS Jamming & Interference - A Clear and Present Danger
When:: 23 February 2010
Where:: National Physical Laboratory - Teddington
Category:: MDA supported

Description

A one-day conference being organised by the Digital Systems KTN, Location & Timing Programme in partnership with the Royal Institute of Navigation.

As we begin 2010 - GPS is a commodity delivering the ability to enable low cost positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) to thousands of applications. Hot on the heels of GPS are other GNSS services - Glonass, Galileo, Compass etc. GPS silicon in your mobile phone probably costs about one Euro - with this massive reduction in cost there will be an enormous proliferation of applications incorporating GNSS signals.

The strength of the GPS signal at the antenna of your receiver is about the same as viewing a 25 Watt light bulb shining down from the satellite during daylight. It's not surprising therefore that there are many phenomena - both natural and deliberate which can upset the received GPS signal. Jamming and Interference - the two main topics of this symposium represent real threats which some industrial and military GPS receivers can address and manage. How aware will new designers and users of mission and safety critical applications with low cost silicon be to the vulnerabilities of satellite based PNT services?

This conference will bring together experts from all aspects of the PNT community to debate important aspects of GPS vulnerabilities including intentional and unintentional jamming, natural and man-made interference and other issues which might impact users and applications which leverage PNT technology.

Confirmed speakers include:
Prof David Last - Introductory keynote speech
Jim Doherty, Institute for Defense Analyses
Alison Brown, Navsys Corporation - "Civil Applications of the GPS Jamming Detection and Location (JLOC) System"
Charles Curry, Chronos Technology Ltd, "GAARDIAN interference detection system"
Dr Tom Willems, Septentrio - "Designing GNSS Receivers to Mitigate Against Interference"
Dr Robert Watson, Bath University - "Coverage modelling of malicious GNSS jamming"
Sally Basker, General Lighthouse Authority - Panel Discussion

Further details and registration here