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Date: Feb 24 14:15 2010

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High-performance ESA receiver brings satnav indoors Satellite navigation is having an enormous impact on our daily lives. In practical terms it means the only place left to get lost is indoors, where satnav signals fail to reach. But one ESA project is changing that. With initial results presented at last week's Techno/Innovation Days, the DINGPOS (Demonstrator for Indoor GNSS Positioning) project combines a highly-sensitive receiver capable of picking up GPS and Galileo signals indoors with additional positioning methods. Read more __________________

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Date: Oct 25 20:30 2008

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Super-sat navs will tick drivers off for their errors A new generation of in-car navigation systems will take sat nav from being simply an electronic mapping device to being a driving instructor, telling motorists when to change gear, at what speed to take a corner and even how to drive more economically. The systems, due to be installed in cars within three years, will present detailed three-dimensional images of the road ahead showing obstructions, gradients and narrow stretches potentially saving country lanes from the curse of misdirected lorries. Read more __________________

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