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THE BUSINESS » MASS MARKET OEM Russia Sells GPS-GLONASS PND Device Offers Multimedia, 7-Inch Screen The first 1,000-unit batch of Russian personal navigation devices (PNDs) that use both Russian GLONASS and U.S. GPS navigation signals sold out within 20 minutes, Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency reported in January, citing Anatoly Perminov, Russian Federal Space Agency director. The Russian Federal Industry Agency is in charge of the production of navigation units, while the Federal Space Agency coordinates the entire GLONASS program. The navigation units can receive 12 GLONASS channels and 20 GPS channels, Itar-Tass reported. The Glospace Sgk-70 is produced by the Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering (RISDE), a state-run enterprise first formed in 1946. RISDE has been involved with the GLONASS project from the start, developing the radio hardware used in the satellites. Glospace is Russia's first consumer navigation device to take advantage of its homegrown GNSS. It features a huge seven-inch screen and multimedia playback. While the first batch of units sold out immediately, the device is offered for sale through a number of Russian Websites specializing in consumer electronics; prices range from 11,500 rubles to 11,990 rubles, or about $470 to $490. GLONASS Launches. The sale of the Glospace came a week after the space agency successfully launched three GLONASS satellites into orbit, bringing the GLONASS cluster up to 18 satellites. By 2010, Russia plans to have a fully operating constellation of 24 GLONASS p THE GLOSPACE Sgk-70 is Russia’s first PND. satellites, providing positioning service over the entire globe, complementing the U.S. GPS constellation. With this latest launch, GLONASS signals are available across 90 percent of Russia and nearly 80 percent of the globe, according to Anatoly Perminov, Russian Federal Space Agency director. Six GLONASS satellites are scheduled for launch this year, and the first two improved GLONASS -K satellites are scheduled for launch in 2009. The Glospace features a combo 12-channel GLONASS/20-channel GPS receiver. Its color LCD is in wide-screen format, at 480 x 234 pixels . It is built around a Samsung S3C2440 400Mhz processor, with 128 megabytes of onboard memory (64 MB of RAM, 64 MB of ROM), with a Secure Digital flash memory card expansion slot. The Glospace uses the Windows CE 5.0 operating system, and is capable of multimedia playback, including MP3 and Ogg audio files and AVI-, DivX-, MP4- and MPEG-4-encoded video files. As for I/O ports, the Glospace supports USB (v. 1.1), miniUSB, a 3.5mm audio jack, as well as an A/V port for video input. » RESOURCES GNSS, Inertial Nav Featured in New Book Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multisensor Integrated Navigation Systems by Paul D. Groves of QinetiQ, Ltd. is now available from Artech House. The practical resource explains satellite navigation, inertial navigation, terrestrial radio navigation, dead reckoning, feature matching, and integrated navigation. It provides both an introduction to navigation systems and an in-depth treatment of INS/GNSS and multisensor integration. The book shows how satellite, inertial, and other navi18 GPS World | February 2008 gation technologies work, and focuses on processing chains and error sources. In addition, practitioners find a clear introduction to coordinate frame, multi-frame kinematics, Earth models, gravity, and the Kalman filter. Providing solutions to common integration problems, the book describes and compares different integration architectures, and explains how to model different error sources, according to the publisher. “Readers find a broad and penetrating overview of current technology and are brought up to speed with the latest developments in the field, including the new GNSS signals, GNSS operation in challenging environments, deep integration, enhanced Loran, urban and indoor positioning, and pedestrian dead reckoning,” the publisher said. For ordering information, visit www.artechhouse.com; call 781-769-9750, ext. 4030; or e-mail artech@artechhouse.com. www.gpsworld.com http://www.artechhouse.com http://www.gpsworld.com

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