''Inside GNSS'' (IG) is an international
controlled circulation
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trade magazine
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and website owned by Gibbons Media and Research LLC. It covers space-based
positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology for engineers, designers, and policy-makers of
global navigation satellite systems
A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning. It allows satellite navigation devices to determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude/elevation) to high pr ...
(GNSS). In the United States, GNSS is identified mainly with the government-operated Navstar
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...
(GPS). InsideGNSS.com is the complimentary website of online news, events, digital newsletters, and
webinars
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, and archived magazine articles.
History
''Inside GNSS'' began publication in , by Gibbons Media and Research LLC, a private company based in Eugene, Oregon USA, and owned by Glen G. Gibbons and Elizabeth A. Schmidkunz.
Circulation
The English-language print publication has a circulation of 30,000 qualified subscribers, of which 7,000 are outside the United States.
Editions
The suite of publications includes:
*Six print and six digital editions per year;
*Online news, events, and archived magazine articles;
*Twice-monthly digital newsletters and web seminars on technical topics.
Content
The ''Inside GNSS'' editorial content has been heavily weighted towards issues of the four major GNSS operators: the United States (GPS), Russia (
GLONASS
GLONASS (russian: ГЛОНАСС, label=none, ; rus, links=no, Глобальная навигационная спутниковая система, r=Global'naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, t=Global Navigation Satellite System) is ...
), China (
BeiDou
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS; ) is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations. The first BeiDou system, officially called the BeiDou Satellite Navigation Experimental System and ...
), and the European Union (
Galileo). Regional and augmentation systems, such as those developed by the United States: (
WAAS
The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is an air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity, and availability. Essentia ...
,
SBAS); Japan: (
QZSS
The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), also known as , is a four-satellite regional time transfer system and a satellite-based augmentation system developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Position ...
); and Europe: (
EGNOS
The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by the European Space Agency and EUROCONTROL on behalf of the European Commission. Currently, it supplements the GPS by rep ...
); as well as
eLoran, the terrestrial radio-navigation system, are also covered.
As GNSS systems have developed and evolved, the magazine has covered the integration of GNSS with other PNT technologies to improve user equipment in places where satellite signals are hard to obtain, the implications for manufacturers and policy-makers as more satellite signals and new systems become available, and the political and legal problems, and opportunities that arise as location-based technology becomes increasingly accurate.
''Inside GNSS'' was the first publication to cover several GNSS political decisions and controversies, and the first outside of scholarly publications to cover several GNSS technical milestones. The magazine presented the first stories about:
*the decision for the common GPS / Galileo civilian signal,
*the transformation of the European Galileo system from a
public-private partnership to a
European Commission
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-controlled programme;
*the first analysis of the new Beidou signal,
*the patent dispute between the U.S. and the E.U. over the L1 signal development,
*the formation of the International Committee on GNSS of the
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
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,
*revitalization of the GLONASS system,
*and the first Galileo-only signal analysis.
List of major articles by subject
Staff
The editor and publisher is Glen Gibbons, an Oregon journalist who has covered GNSS continuously since 1989, six years before the first U.S. satellite constellation was fully operational in 1995. In 2003, he received the
U.S. Institute of Navigation's Norman P. Hays award for inspiration and support contributing to the advancement of navigation. He was the founding editor of ''GPS World'', ''Galileo's World'', and GPS World Newsletter.
The magazine's Washington correspondent,
Dee Ann Divis, received the Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award from the
Society of Professional Journalists Washington D.C. Pro Chapter (SPJDC) in 2012
for the extensive coverage of the
LightSquared
Ligado Networks, formerly known as LightSquared, is an American satellite communications company.
After restructuring, emerging from bankruptcy and modifying its network plan, the new company, Ligado Networks, launched in 2016. It operates the Sk ...
communications network, and the controversy over its interference with GPS signals during 2011 and 2012. Divis also won the SPJDC's Dateline Award for Washington Correspondent in both 2012 and 2013.
In 2009, Richard Fischer, a former Advanstar Communications vice-president and general manager joined ''Inside GNSS'' as Director of Business Development. Gwen Rhoads has served as the magazine's art director since 2006, and Peggie Kegel has been the magazine's circulation director since its founding.
In addition to Gibbons and Divis, the contributing editors are:
*
Günter Hein, head of Galileo and EGNOS Operations and Evolution for the
European Space Agency, and a member of the
European Commission
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's signal task force.
*Mark Petovello, a professor of geomatics engineering at the
University of Calgary
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(
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
, Canada), and a member of the Position Location and Navigation research group.
*European correspondent Peter Gutierrez, a senior reporter and editor based in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, Belgium, who covers Europe's GNSS programmes.
The magazine has an international
Editorial Advisory Council that includes several pioneer developers of GPS technology, including co-inventor of the Global Positioning System
Bradford Parkinson
Bradford Parkinson (February 16, 1935) is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contribu ...
, A.J. van Dierendonck, Tom Stansell,
Phil Ward, and GPS policy developer Jules McNeff.
References
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