GPS World Webinar - Thu, 17 May 2012
R&RNAV to take part in GPS World Webinar 'Alternative PNT and the View from Europe' on 17th May.
... Read more >>UK Maritime Spectrum Strategy Group - Fri, 4 May 2012
R&RNAV attended the UK MSSG.
... Read more >>IALA PAP 23 - Thu, 3 May 2012
GLA Research Director, as vice chair of IALA e-Navigation Committee, attended the Policy Advisory Panel on 2nd and 3rd May 2012.... Read more >>
18th Session of IALA ANM Committee - Fri, 27 Apr 2012
Members of the GLA attended the IALA Aids to Navigation Management (ANM) Committee's 18th meeting.... Read more >>
ENC 2012 - Gdańsk, Poland - Wed, 25 Apr 2012
R&RNAV attend ENC 2012 in Gdańsk, Poland.
... Read more >>UK Radio Navigation Equipment & Standards - Wed, 18 Apr 2012
A meeting of UKRNES was attended by R&RNAV for the GLAs.... Read more >>
Munich Satellite Summit 2012 - Fri, 30 Mar 2012
R&RNAV represented the GLAs at the recent Munich Satellite Summit.... Read more >>
IALA e-Navigation Committee, 11th Session - Fri, 30 Mar 2012
The 11th Session of the IALA e-Navigation Committee was attended from 26-30 March 2012.... Read more >>
After Longitude - RIN Conference - Fri, 23 Mar 2012
Presentation was given at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.... Read more >>
IALA Meeting on Participation in IHO S-100 Geospatial Information Registry - Thu, 22 Mar 2012
An IALA meeting was held at IHO in Monaco from 21-24 February 2012.
... Read more >>Inter-sessional meeting of IALA e-NAV WG2 Maritime Integrated PNT correspondence group - Thu, 22 Mar 2012
R&RNAV represented the GLAs at a recent inter-sessional meeting of IALA e-NAV, Working Group 2 (PNT).
... Read more >>Dynamic Spectrum Access Forum - Thu, 22 Mar 2012
A Forum entitled ‘Towards an EU Policy for Dynamic Spectrum Access’ was held in Brussels on 7 March 2012.
... Read more >>GLAs Response to UrsaNav Research Agreement - Mon, 5 Mar 2012
The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLA) welcome the announcement of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the United States Coast Guard and UrsaNav Inc. It is part of a new set of low-frequency (LF) services being trialled on both sides of the Atlantic.
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R&RNAV Vacancies - Wed, 29 Feb 2012
The GLAs R&RNAV are currently looking to recruit a full-time Research & Development Engineer (Visual Signalling).
... Read more >>SENTINEL Q5 Progress Meeting - Tue, 3 Jan 2012
The GLAs attend SENTINEL meeting.... Read more >>
Winners of Trinity House 2011 Staff Awards - Thu, 22 Dec 2011
Congratulations to Malcolm Nicholson, James Skinner and Ian Tutt (Retired) of the GLAs R&RNAV department who received the Innovation or New Idea Benefitting Trinity House award recently at the 2011 Trinity House Annual Awards Ceremony.
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European Navigation Conference 2011 - Tue, 29 Nov 2011
The GLA R&RNAV Team gave three presentations and two posters at ENC 2011 and had a stand in the exhibition. The subjects of GNSS vulnerability and the provision of alternatives to ensure resilient PNT, were prominent throughout the conference.... Read more >>
International Loran Association - ILA40 - Thu, 17 Nov 2011
R&RNAV attended the 40th International Loran Association conference in Busan, Korea and presented a UK Status Update and a paper on eLoran. ... Read more >>
Galileo PRS Information Day - Fri, 14 Oct 2011
R&RNAV represented the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland at the recent Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) information day, hosted by the UK Space Agency.
... Read more >>RTCM SC104 Autumn Meeting - Fri, 14 Oct 2011
R&RNAV represented the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland at the recent meeting of the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services Special Committee 104 on Differential Global Navigation Satellite Systems.
The two broadcast standards, versions 2 and 3, are both being updated to include generic messages so that providers can broadcast corrections for multiple GNSS constellations.
... Read more >>SENTINEL - Q3 Meeting - Thu, 13 Oct 2011
The GLAs attended 3rd Quarter Sentinel partner progress meeting at NPL, Teddington. Consortium partners discussed work progress and outlined their work plans for the next quarter.
... Read more >>R&RNAV are currently recruiting for two Research & Development Engineers - Tue, 11 Oct 2011
The General Lighthouse Authorities, R&RNAV department, are currently recruiting for two Research & Development Engineers, based in Harwich. Please see the Careers' page for the link to the job description and application form.... Read more >>
R&RNAV presented at Cheltenham Science Festival - Tue, 9 Aug 2011
The Research and Radionavigation directorate presented the results of their recent GPS jamming trials at the recent Cheltenham Science Festival. This annual event focuses on bringing science to the general public through a well organised and varied programme of presentations, question and answer sessions, exhibitions and participation events.
... Read more >>eLoran Monitoring at Dungeness to cover Dover Straits - Mon, 1 Aug 2011
R&RNAV have installed a prototype eLoran reference receiver at Dungeness Lighthouse. In time this may enable the site to act as a Differential-eLoran reference station covering the Dover Straits and parts of the English Channel.
... Read more >>R&RNAV make UTC measurements for eLoran at NPL - Wed, 20 Jul 2011
As part of the Sentinel project, R&RNAV visited the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington on 20th July to make UTC-alignment calibration measurements for the eLoran receiver used in the project.... Read more >>
GLAs launch '2025 & Beyond' Strategy - Tue, 19 Jul 2011
The General Lighthouse Authorities for the UK & Ireland’s marine Aids to Navigation document ‘2025 & Beyond’ was launched yesterday by the Shipping Minister, Mike Penning.
... Read more >>RIN Award Top Student Prize to R&RNAV member - Fri, 15 Jul 2011
The Royal Institute of Navigation has awarded Chris Hargreaves, Development Engineer, with the IESSG Top Student Prize.... Read more >>
UK Working Party 5B (Radio-determination) - Wed, 8 Jun 2011
R&RNAV represented the GLA at a meeting of UK Working Party 5B (Radio-determination), to prepare the UK Position and papers for ITU-R WP 5B.... Read more >>
IALA e-NAV 9 - Fri, 20 May 2011
R&RNAV represented the GLAs at the recent IALA e-Navigation committee meeting.... Read more >>
Considering options for Alternative Positioning - Summary of Business Case - Fri, 13 May 2011
This summary is now available for download from the R&RNAV website.... Read more >>
Vessel Tracking and Monitoring Seminar - Mon, 4 Apr 2011
The Seminar was held at the Lloyds Maritime Academy in London from 27th -28th January 2011.
... Read more >>Marine AtoN Lights Calculator - Thu, 31 Mar 2011
The Marine AtoN Lights Calculator is now available from the R&RNAV website.... Read more >>
R&RNAV and Twitter - Thu, 24 Mar 2011
You can now follow R&RNAV news on Twitter http://twitter.com/RRNAV#
... Read more >>GPS vulnerabilities and the benefits of eLoran - Thu, 10 Mar 2011
The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLAs) fully support the findings of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s paper on the dangers of heavy dependency on GPS.
... Read more >>Royal Academy of Engineering report on GNSS Vulnerabilities - Tue, 8 Mar 2011
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has published a report on GNSS Vulnerability. The study on which the report was based involved a wide range of organisations with knowledge in this area, including GLA R&RNAV.... Read more >>
ION – International Technical Meeting - Thu, 24 Feb 2011
GLA R&RNAV recently attended the US Institute of Navigation (ION) International Technical Meeting (ITM) held in San Diego USA from 23rd to 26th January 2011.... Read more >>
e-Navigation Underway - Thu, 24 Feb 2011
The conference was held aboard the M/S Crown of Scandinavia (Copenhagen-Oslo-Copenhagen) as part of the INTERREG Baltic Region Project ‘EfficienSea’, from 31st January to 2nd February 2011.
... Read more >>IALA WG2 Inter-sessional Meeting and VRS Demonstration - Mon, 24 Jan 2011
GLA R&RNAV attended the IALA e-Navigation Committee Working Group 2 inter-sessional
meeting in Koblenz, in November 2010.... Read more >>
European eLoran Forum meeting - Mon, 20 Dec 2010
Meeting of the European eLoran Forum (EEF) held in Moscow on 24th and 25th November 2010.... Read more >>
The ECDIS Revolution - Mon, 20 Dec 2010
Presentations on the benefits and problems of introducing ECDIS.... Read more >>
RIN Conference NAV-10 - Mon, 20 Dec 2010
R&RNAV contributed five papers to the recent NAV10 conference.... Read more >>
Awards received at ILA AGM - Fri, 17 Dec 2010
Several members of the GLA R&RNAV team received awards at the International Loran Association AGM held last month.
... Read more >>Dr Basker leaves GLA R&RNAV - Tue, 30 Nov 2010
After 5 years’ service, Dr Sally Basker is leaving GLA R&RNAV.... Read more >>
Winners of 2010 Trinity House Awards - Tue, 16 Nov 2010
Trinity House Awards Ceremony 2010... Read more >>
Seventh Meeting of the National PNT Advisory Board - Tue, 16 Nov 2010
The seventh meeting of the National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board was held on the 14th & 15th October 2010 in Washington.... Read more >>
e-Navigation Data Workshop - Tue, 16 Nov 2010
e-Navigation Data Workshop, IHO, Monaco, 4th & 5th November 2010
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European Navigation Conference - GNSS 2010 - Wed, 10 Nov 2010
GLA R&RNAV presented papers in the Maritime Applications, Augmentation Systems and poster sessions.
... Read more >>IALA e-Navigation Committee - Fri, 8 Oct 2010
Summary of the recent IALA e-Navigation Committee held in September.... Read more >>
R&RNAV receives awards at Royal Institute of Navigation AGM - Mon, 6 Sep 2010
R&RNAV received a number of prestigious awards at the RIN AGM in July.... Read more >>
IMO NAV 56 - Mon, 16 Aug 2010
The 56th Session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation (NAV 56) was held on 26-30th July.... Read more >>
RTCM Special Committee 127 meeting on eLoran Standardisation - Sun, 8 Aug 2010
GLA R&RNAV hosted a meeting of RTCM Special Committee 127 on eLoran Standardisation.
... Read more >>Lights testing at Casquets - Tue, 6 Jul 2010
R&RNAV visit Casquet Lights to test LED light source.... Read more >>
RIN Research & Development Special Interest Group Seminar - Tue, 6 Jul 2010
GPS jamming results were presented by R&RNAV to the Royal Institute of Navigation’s Research and Development Special Interest Group at the GNSS Strengths and Weaknesses seminar in May.... Read more >>
GPS jamming trials video now available online - Fri, 4 Jun 2010
A video of GPS Jamming trials is now available online and on dvd.
... Read more >>New Professional Navigators' Award 2010 - Wed, 2 Jun 2010
Michelle De Voy, Development Engineer with R&RNAV has been awarded the Royal Institute of Navigation's New Professional Navigators' Award 2010 for her work on a Real-Time DGPS Monitoring System.
... Read more >>Two members of R&RNAV team awarded Fellowship of RIN - Tue, 25 May 2010
R&RNAV is please to announce that Martin Bransby, R&RNAV Manager, and Paul Williams, Principal Development Engineer have been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Institute of Navigation.
... Read more >>R&RNAV paper receives 2010 Michael Richey Medal - Mon, 24 May 2010
The R&RNAV paper “GPS Jamming and the Impact on Maritime Navigation“ by Alan Grant, Paul Williams, Nick Ward and Sally Basker has been awarded the 2010 Michael Richey Medal by the Royal Institute of Navigation for the best paper published in the Journal of Navigation in 2009.
... Read more >>IALA Conference 2010 - Fri, 16 Apr 2010
R&RNAV presented 6 papers at the IALA conference held 21-27 March 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.... Read more >>
Jamming: A Clear and Present Danger - Thu, 15 Apr 2010
In GPS World this month, Sally Basker Director of R&RNAV, reports on a meeting held at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom on the February 23rd 2010. The meeting titled, “GPS Jamming and Interference: A Clear and Present Danger,” was organized by the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network.... Read more >>
Observed impact of GPS jamming and the benefits of eLoran - Mon, 8 Mar 2010
Dr Alan Grant of R&RNAV presented on the Observed impact of GPS jamming and the benefits of eLoran to the Knowledge Transfer Network’s recent conference GPS Jamming and Interference- a clear and present danger.... Read more >>
Evolution from Loran-C to eLoran - Wed, 10 Feb 2010
This briefing note has been prepared by the Research and Radionavigation Directorate of the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland to provide a meaningful comparison of Loran-C and eLoran.
... Read more >>GPS Jamming Trials in the News - Wed, 6 Jan 2010
In December 2009 the GLA R&RNAV team ran GPS jamming trials aboard THV Galatea.... Read more >>
ILA-38 - Tue, 11 Aug 2009
The International Loran Association held its 38th Conference and Technical Symposium on 13-15 October 2009 in Portland, Maine, USA.
... Read more >>GLAs GPS Jamming Article - Wed, 11 Mar 2009
The GLAs GPS Jamming Article published in Inside GNSS (January/February 09) and in GPS World publications (March 09)... Read more >>
VT awarded DGPS contract - Tue, 28 Oct 2008
VT Communications has been awarded a contract for the upgrading and enhancement of the 14 DGPS reference stations provided by the General Lighthouse Authorities of UK and Ireland.... Read more >>
Plan for the future of Visual Aids to Navigation - Wed, 14 May 2008
Plan for the future of Visual Aids to Navigation is launched... Read more >>
GLAs welcome the European eLoran Forum's document - Thu, 24 Apr 2008
General Lighthouse Authorities welcome the European eLoran Forum's document on securing positioning, navigation and timing for Europe's future... Read more >>
GLAs welcome US decision about eLoran - Mon, 25 Feb 2008
The General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland (GLAs) today applaud the US decision to implement Enhanced Loran (eLoran) in the US as a complement to the Global Positioning System (GPS), particularly in the event of an outage or disruption in service.... Read more >>
The GLAs announce eLoran contract - Thu, 31 May 2007
The UK and Ireland's three GLAs today announce the award of a 15-year eLoran contract... Read more >>
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