Galileo Accomplishes In-Orbit Validation; GNSS Vulnerable: What to Do?; GLONASS Seeks Broader Worldwide Footprint; Launch Imminent Spirent’s SimSAFE Fights Signal Vulnerability; JAVAD TR
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Vulnerable: What to Do?; GLONASS Seeks Broader
Worldwide Footprint; Launch Imminent
Spirent’s SimSAFE Fights Signal Vulnerability; JAVAD
TR-3 Receiver; Teleorbit Upgrades Simulation
Environment; IFEN Contract for Galileo Signal Test Bed;
Spectracom Program for Application-Specific Testing;
Spectra Precision SP-80 Uses Six GNSS Systems; Briefs
Receiver Survey Correction 28
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an apparent gold standard for position, navigation and timing But BeiDou is strictly a regional system, and while the published (30-year-
old) standard for GPS is 6 meters under the same conditions,
this is merely a standard, a never-to-exceed boundary, and
not an actual URE measurement GPS has always provided
significantly better than 6 meters accuracy, with a reasonable
age of data, while the GPS numbers for URE have significantly
improved on a consistent basis since 1978 and today are the
best in the world for any global PNT system
The public data clearly shows that the GPS system is every
bit as accurate as — indeed comparatively nominally much
more accurate than — BeiDou Longevity and dependability
are merely two of the factors that make GPS the true PNT
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that smartphone users will
tolerate diluted privacy —
specifically, privacy of their own
location — in return for the many
advantages delivered by the
location-based services on their devices This
conventional wisdom, I put it to you,
has been disseminated over the years
by conventional wisemen, that is, those
selling the services and the devices
Users themselves have not, in the
full awareness of their situation, been
sounded or heard from Now murmurs
bubble to the surface
Five researchers at Rutgers
University recently published a paper,
“A Field Study of Run-Time Location
Access Disclosures on Android
Smartphones,” based on work supported
by the National Science Foundation
The paper describes how they created an
application to inform users which other
apps are mining their GPS location data,
and then asked users how they felt about
this
Participants took various actions to
manage their privacy These included
uninstalling apps, stopping the use of
some apps, reducing the time using
some apps, and searching through apps’
setups to disable location accesses
“[They] appreciated the transparency
brought by our run-time disclosure
method,” the researchers state “They
wanted to continue receiving the
notifications after completing the study
Most participants reported having
trade-offs between location privacy and the
convenience of using their apps We
observed that some participants would
rather give up the convenience to protect
their location privacy.”
First, the researchers had to figure
out how to provide the information to
project participants; in other words, how
to let them know who was watching
them and tracking their movements?
“[Although] there is no obvious
way for a normal Android app to
monitor whether other apps are accessing location, we discovered
we could exploit the method
getLastKnownLocation available in the
Android Location API for this purpose.”
Participants — those in the know,
at least — described the study as “an eye opener.” In one of the most telling details, delivered in the paper’s last sentence, we find out why The study encompassed two groups: one was shown that other apps accessed their data, and the other group was only informed of this after the project was completed “The No Disclosure group were generally not aware of what was happening on their own phones.”
Caveat orator.
In other news, I am happy and proud
to announce that former associate publisher Steve Copley is now full-on publisher of this magazine After a year in the traces (or should that be trenches?), Steve has ably reinvigorated business aspects of the operation, cleaned house, kicked buttstock, and taken names It is due and fitting that he now tackle further challenges
As I shall also, in my new role of group publisher While continuing to
do what I do, my purlieu extends more fully over geographic information systems and Earth observation, as well as new initiatives in the European
Earth Observation Report See page 4
Who’s Been Mining My Location?
GPS World’s
new publisher, Steve Copley
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(ESA) announced fulfillment
of the in-orbit validation (IOV)
of Galileo on February 10 IOV was
achieved with four satellites, the
minimum number needed to perform
navigation fixes
“IOV was required to demonstrate
that the future performance that
we want to meet when the system
is deployed is effectively reachable,”
said Sylvain Loddo, ESA’s Galileo
Ground Segment manager “It was
an intermediate step with a reduced
part of the system to effectively give
evidence that we are on track.”
Following a March 2013 first
determination of a ground location,
jointly by Galileo’s space and ground
segments, program managers
undertook a wide variety of tests all
across Europe
“More than 10,000 kilometers were
driven by test vehicles in the process
of picking up signals, along with
pedestrian and fixed receiver testing
Many terabytes of IOV data were
gathered in all,” said Marco Falcone,
ESA’s Galileo System manager
According to ESA’s elaboration on
the test results, the system has proved
itself capable of solely performing
positioning fixes across the planet
Galileo’s observed dual-frequency
positioning accuracy is an average
of 8 meters horizontal and 9 meters
vertical, 95 percent of the time
Its average timing accuracy is 10
billionths of a second Its performance
is expected to improve as more
satellites are launched and ground
stations come on line
For Galileo’s search-and-rescue function — operating as part of the existing international Cospas–
Sarsat programme — 77 percent of simulated distress locations can be pinpointed within 2 kilometers, and 95 percent within 5 kilometers All alerts are detected and forwarded to the Mission Control Centre within a minute and a half, compared to a design requirement of 10 minutes
“Europe has proven with IOV that in terms of performance we are at a par with the best international systems of navigation in the world,” said Didier Faivre, ESA director of Galileo and Navigation-related Activities
Historically Speaking In a February
2013 GPS World article, Peter
Steigenberger, Urs Hugentobler, and Oliver Montenbruck discussed
Galileo-only positioning “Using an ionosphere-free dual-frequency linear combination of pseudorange measurements on the Galileo E1 and E5a frequencies, the position of the TUME reference station [at the Technische Universität München (TUM) in Munich, Germany] could be determined with a 3D position error of less than 1.5 meters,’” the authors said
Crystal Ball Gazing The next two
Galileo satellites, of the full operational capability (FOC) class, currently complete their testing for flight clearance at ESA’s ESTEC facility
Six such satellites are destined to rise into space in 2014, according to ESA’s master plan Should all those launches occur as scheduled, Galileo’s initial services could start by the end of the year
Galileo Accomplishes In-Orbit Validation
Nucleus of Four Now Operational: It “Works, and Works Well”
▲FIGURE 1 Dual-frequency Galileo positioning performance during the In-Orbit Validation
phase: positioning accuracy is an average 8 m horizontal and 9 m vertical (95% of the time) Its average timing accuracy is 10 nanoseconds on average Plot courtesy of ESA.
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THE SYSTEM
Brad Parkinson, the founding architect
of GPS, told a UK conference that the
system needs to be made more robust
to ensure worldwide availabliity of
services to users His concerns over
GPS availability relate to threats such
as the loss of authorized frequency
spectrum (implicitly creating licensed
jammers), space weather due to
hyperactive ionospheric conditions,
and deliberate or inadvertent jamming
of GPS signals
He warned that GPS is more
vulnerable to sabotage or disruption
than ever before, and charged that
politicians and security chiefs are
ignoring the risk Western governments
are “in their infancy in recognizing the
problem,” he remarked further in an
interview with London’s Financial Times
“[In the United States] I don’t know
anyone that is really in charge of it The
Department of Homeland Security
should be [but] they don’t have any
people that understand it very well
They’ve got one person without any
budget to speak of.”
He also warned that Europe’s €5
billion Galileo system is equally at risk
Parkinson proposed a three-stage
program to:
◾ Protect (legally) the signal and physically eliminate jamming sources;
◾ Toughen the GPS/Galileo receiver’s resistance to interference;
◾ Augment the GPS signals with other satellites or with ground-based transmitters such as eLoran
To support his proposal, Parkinson stated, “The number one need for all GPS or Galileo users is availability Over the years, manufacturers of signal receiver technologies have focused too much on sensitivity and not enough on resilience or robustness
The maritime industry is a particular concern where users have taken GPS for granted They must increase preparedness and backups as they
do in aviation or other GNSS-using industries
“Even today, most ships have only GPS and the vision of their crew
to guide them when approaching harbors As you can see from today’s conference, there are a wealth of solutions to toughen and back up GPS, many of which are not technologically difficult nor expensive, but still their adoption in sectors such as global shipping is certainly not adequate.”
As part of his protection program, Parkinson urged that penalties for jamming GPS networks be coordinated worldwide “In Australia, if you cause interference likely to cause prejudice
to the safe conduct of a vessel, it’s five years in the jug [jail] and $850,000.” Contrasting this with a U.S case that may simply impose a forfeiture of the culprit’s jamming device, Parkinson added, “I’m calling for the community
of nations to move to the Aussie-type penalties.”
In the toughening regard, Parkinson alluded to integration of GPS data with information derived from an inertial positioning system “If you combine all of these things, a good set should
be able to fly within 1 kilometer of a jammer with a 10-kilometer range,” said Parkinson “That’s what I call toughening.”
Parkinson made his remarks as the keynote speech at GNSS Vulnerabilities and Resilient PNT 2014, hosted by the Royal Institute of Navigation He will also deliver the keynote address,
“Assured PNT: Assured World Economic Benefits,” for the European Navigation Conference on April 15 in The Netherlands
GNSS Vulnerable: What to Do?
Too Much Sensitivity, Not Enough Robustness, Says Parkinson
GLONASS Seeks Broader Monitoring Footprint; Launch Imminent
Russia will deploy as many as seven
ground monitoring and augmentation
stations for GLONASS outside its
national boundaries GLONASS/GNSS
Forum Association Executive Director
Vladimir Klimov stated that “It is
planned to deploy about six or seven
stations on foreign territories this year.”
Negotiations for the stations are now
taking place with foreign nations
Currently, there are 46 GLONASS
ground stations on Russian territory, eight in neighboring countries, three
in Antarctica, and one in Brazil The United States recently spurned, with some Congressional trumpeting,
a Russian tender to site one of the ground stations on U.S soil
New Instrument in Space In
mid-February, the most recent GLONASS-M satellite traveled to the Plesetsk cosmodrome for a probable mid-
March launch GLONASS-M 54 will carry a high-accuracy thermal stabilization unit, installed on the spacecraft for testing and flight qualification The next-generation K-class of GLONASS spacecraft will loft this device to provide increased positioning accuracy
Five GLONASS-M craft are planned for launch in 2014, in one triple and two single launches
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testing solutions The program fills what
the company calls a technology and
expertise gap in providing customers
in a variety of industries the tools
to perform more comprehensive
qualification of their mission-critical
systems Examples of these industries
include:
◾ multi-constellation (GPS, GLONASS,
Galileo, BeiDou) simulation;
◾ integrated MEMs/INS testing;
◾ Interference detection and
mitigation (IDM) verification;
◾ assisted-GNSS (A-GPS) validation,
◾ hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
for automotive applications;
◾ high-dynamic platform simulations
for aerospace and defense (UAVs,
“hardware-in-the-loop” verification, the company said
For instance, Spectracom’s new assisted-GNSS (A-GNSS) feature is designed to integrate with 3GPP/LTE testers to send “assistance data” directly
to the device under test The company takes a similar approach to testing RTK-enabled receivers with user-settable virtual base-station parameters.Spectracom aims to ensure its customers have the ability to easily use GNSS simulation as part of a comprehensive PNT testing solution
“More testing in the lab enables faster time to market, at a reduced cost and increased reliability,” said Rohit Braggs, Spectracom director of marketing and strategy Spectracom offers customers design and delivery of custom configurations and test systems unique
to their applications, the company said
▲Spectracom’s GSG-6 Simulator with
monitor.
A contract to design and to deliver an advanced multi-GNSS
constellation signal simulator and interface environment
testbed was awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA)
to IFEN GmbH in late 2013 The contract is concluded in the
context of the Signal Test Bed activities of the European GNSS
Evolution Programme
In addition to addressing the second generation of
Galileo, which is planned to provide higher accuracy and
signal robustness, the GNSS Signal Test Bed will include the
following capabilities:
◾ Flexible adaptability to all signal and message
standards, whatever the future may bring
◾ Extensive investigation of intentional signal
interferences
◾ Testing of GNSS signal performance in newly evolving
standards
◾ Generation of even more realistic test scenarios that
include background and intentional interference
◾ Refined scenarios of various distortions of GNSS
◾ Each band consists of a combination of a digital cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter and a digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter (up to 60-th order) for signal selection
◾ Two types of digital in-band anti-jamming filters (automatic 80th order and “user selectable” 256th order)
◾ Multiple channels to acquire and track each satellite signal For example, 20 channels can be assigned to acquire
IFEN Contract for Galileo Signal Test Bed
See JAVAD TR-3, page 27.
Nine GNSS Frequencies in JAVAD TR-3
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THE BUSINESS
TeleOrbit’s software-based GNSS multi-system performance simulation environment GIPSIE has recently been upgraded to multi-frequency scenarios including both Galileo and GPS
GIPSIE consists of two modules:
the satellite constellation simulator (SCS) and the intermediate frequency simulator (IFS) The SCS simulates the satellite orbits by using a sophisticated orbit integrator, including modeling
of environmental parameters such as satellite clocks, transmit power, antenna patterns, ionosphere, and troposphere
The IFS generates digital intermediate frequency signals, including the simulation of a user-definable radio frequency front-end
The addition of the new frequency bands and signals within the framework
of GIPSIE allows simulating system, multi-frequency scenarios (GPS L1/L2/L5 and Galileo E1/E5/E6) and real-time kinematic scenarios Besides the civil/open signals, the added signals include a Galileo PRS-like signal as well
multi-as the unencrypted GPS P-Code
Jamming Studies have shown the
threat of interfering signals to GNSS signals like jamming signals produced
by so-called personal privacy devices
By adding a GNSS Interference Analysis Tool (GIAT) to GIPSIE, it is now possible
to simulate these jammers on top
of the GNSS signals The jamming signals can be defined by the user and include a continuous wave jammer, a swept continuous wave jammer, and a frequency modulated jammer
GIPSIE will also soon include the possibility to simulate micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) with a dedicated noise model and GLONASS and BeiDou constellations and signals
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a 240-channel 6G chipset and can use all six available GNSS systems (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and SBAS) It can also be configured to use only selected constellations in an RTK solution (GPS-only, GLONASS-only, or BeiDou-only).The SP80 is compliant with the new RTCM 3.2 standard, including recently approved MSM RTCM messages, supporting all available GNSS corrections
Its communication capabilities combine a 3.5G GSM/UMTS modem,
Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth connectivity, and an optional transmit UHF radio The receiver’s built-in Wi-Fi and 3.5G modem can provide an Internet connection for RTK corrections and also send SMS or e-mails with system alerts
The SP80 features anti-theft technology to safeguard the receiver, and can detect if it is has been disturbed while in the field (for example, when operating as a GNSS base)
When the UHF transmit radio module is used, its UHF antenna remains protected inside the rugged rod, extending the radio range performance It is powered with dual hot-swap batteries for typical all-day operation
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Spirent’s SimSAFE Fights Signal Vulnerability
Spirent Communications’ SimSAFE software simulates
legitimate GNSS constellations along with spoofed
or hoax signals to evaluate receiver resilience and
help develop counter measures The military and critical
infrastructure — such as wireless networks, banking, and
utilities — are especially interested in being able to detect
and reject spoofing attacks
“The industry is beginning to talk more about vulnerability
and how we actually think about categorizing the threat,”
said John Pottle, marketing director of Spirent’s Positioning
Division “What approaches are there to evaluate performance
in the presence of interference signals? If you’re a developer,
what approaches are there to clean up your performance? ”
SimSAFE was developed in conjunction with Qascom, a
GNSS signal security and authentication company SimSAFE
provides a means of emulating a spoofing attack, and then
monitoring a receiver under attack to evaluate mitigation
strategies and countermeasures
The SimSAFE laboratory-based test solution is fully
controllable, so that users can evaluate a receiver’s response
to a wide range of spoofing attacks As Pottle put it, when fed both authentic and spoofed signals, “What’s the receiver going to see? It’s going to see the authentic signals, it’s going
to see a couple of spoofed signals And you can play around with the spoofed signals — that’s the controllable bit While this is happening, the detector module within SimSAFE
By Tracy Cozzens
See SimSAFE, page 27.