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EXPERT ADVICE positioning, and timing services to support e-Navigation,” although it was premature to identify solutions before user requirements had been ﬁnalized. In Europe, the General Lighthouse Authorities of the United Kingdom and Ireland awarded a 15-year contract to VT Communications for the provision of a state-of-the-art eLoran radionavigation service to improve the safety of mariners in the U.K. and Ireland. European Loran service providers have created the European eLoran Forum to support the successful introduction, operation, and provision of eLoran services in Europe as part of a European Radio Navigation Plan. Finally, there appears to be some positive movement towards issuing the ﬁrst European Radio Navigation Plan in 2008. Encouragement. All of us, however, eagerly await the most important eLoran development in the last decade: a positive policy decision in the United States following the Independent Assessment Team on eLoran in 2006 and the Federal Register Note on Loran at the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007. e sharpeyed among us found encouragement in the open-source reports of various Appropriations Committees. e U.S. House of Representatives Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ApproADVISORY BOARD UPDATE priations Committee report states that the Independent Assessment Team “concluded that Loran C should be retained and modernized to serve as a long term back up for GPS.” e U.S. Senate DHS Appropriations Committee report states that “a group composed of oﬃcials from the departments of Homeland Security and Transportation and other federal agencies met earlier this year and unanimously agreed that the United States should maintain the Loran system.” Even more tantalizingly, an opensource DHS letter to the U.S. Senate Authorization Committee refers to a decision on Loran by the end of 2007. A positive decision by the United States will undoubtedly cause a chain reaction worldwide and will stimulate the market for applications and services. Finally, I have some good new for those of you who are excited about innovation, are insatiably curious, love experimenting wantonly, and want to recapture the pioneering spirit of yesteryear: there is a new and thrilling world of low-frequency radionavigation systems with high-powered transmitters and very, very large masts; an almost oncein-a-career opportunity to contribute to the development of a new radionavigation system; and perhaps even a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! GPS WORLD ADVISORY BOARD Vidal Ashkenazi Sally Basker Jean-François Bou Alison K. Brown Pascal Campagne Olivier Colaïtis Ismael Colomina Jordi Corbera Paul A. Cross Nicolas de Chezelles Clem Driscoll Børje Forssell Alain Geiger Art Gower Sergio Greco Jörg Hahn Michael Healy Günter Hein Larry D. Hothem Len Jacobson Gérard Lachapelle Wolfgang Lechner Jingnan Liu Pietro Lo Galbo Keith D. McDonald Terence J. McGurn Jules G. McNeff James Miller Terry Moore Ruth Neilan Ivan G. Petrovski Mario Proietti Martin U. Ripple Michael E. Shaw Giorgio Solari Jac Spaans Thomas Stansell Jr. F. Michael Swiek David Turner A.J. Van Dierendonck Frantisek Vejrazka Akio Yasuda Nottingham Scientific Ltd., United Kingdom General Lighthouse Authorities, United Kingdom & Ireland Thales Group, France NAVSYS Corporation, United States France Developpement Conseil, France Alcatel Space Industries, France Institut de Geomàtica, Spain Spanish Institute of Navigation, Spain University College London, United Kingdom Ministry of Defense, France C.J. Driscoll & Associates, United States Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway ETH Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Switzerland Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Services, United States Alcatel Alenia Spazio, Italy European Space Agency, The Netherlands Astrium Limited, United Kingdom Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany U.S. Geological Survey, United States Global Systems & Marketing, United States William J. Klepczynski Institute for Defense Analyses, United States The University of Calgary, Canada Telematica, Germany National Engineering Research Center for Satellite Systems, China European Space Agency, The Netherlands NavtechGPS, United States Consultant, United States Overlook Systems Technologies, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Institute of Engineering, Surveying and Space Geodesy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States Racer’s Edge GÉRARD LACHAPELLE heads the Position, Location And Navigation (PLAN) Group of the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, which has developed an ultra-precise, ultra-light weight navigation system to provide Canadian ski racers with significant training advantages. “The system was tested with complete success on members of the Canadian Ski Team during November 2006–April 2007 and deployment is now complete,” he says. The School of Engineering has a three-year partnership agreement as the official technical partner to Alpine Canada Alpin (ACA). “In a sport where the difference between winning and losing is a few blinks of an eye, the advanced expertise available at the Schulich School of Engineering delivers on our commitment to worldleading research,” added Ken Read, ACA CEO. Bradford W. Parkinson Stanford University, United States NVS Technologies, Switzerland TechnoCom Corporation, United States European Aeronautics Defense and Space, Germany National Space-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Coordination Office, United States Galileo Supervisory Authority, Belgium European Group of Institutes of Navigation, The Netherlands Stansell Consulting, United States U.S. GPS Industry Council, United States The Aerospace Corporation, United States p Gérard Lachapelle exchanges hats with Alpine Canada Alpin’s chief athletics officer Max Gartner. The PLAN Group brings its expertise to the Canadian Ski Team and Olympic effort; the system’s GPS component is Alberta-based. AJ Systems, United States Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Tokyo University of Marine Science & Technology, Japan 10 GPS World | January 2008 www.gpsworld.com http://www.gpsworld.com

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