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The Whole Metaphorical Ball of Wax
As discussed previously, here is my digital news writing clip file in its entirety: all of it that is hosted here, unsorted, except by chronological order, page after page. Blog posts, editorials and columns, news stories — a veritable Fourth Estate kit and kaboodle (as opposed to a wax ball), as it were.
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Can High-Resolution Imagery Resolve the Ararat Mystery?
To the scientific mind, it is easy to see a natural, geological formation when looking at the “Ararat Anomaly” on Turkey’s Mt. Ararat: a lava flow, or perhaps some sort of rock dome. But it is undeniable, at least for the layman, that the shape suggests a ship underneath the ice and snow (albeit one of modern design with tapered bow and stern, not the rectangular barge shape often ascribed to Noah’s Ark). The myths and legends — or the facts, if you’re a believer in the Qur’an or the Bible’s Old...
read moreMissing the Boat to Finland
ION 2008 News Coverage: Jeff Chappell Blogs Well, as I write this, Day 4 of ION and related happenings is behind me: my feet hurt, I’m tired of hotel and tradeshow food, I finally missed the boat this morning – literally; and I’ve got all manner of position, timing, and navigation minutiae whirling around in my brain. And there is a love bug in my hair (seriously – it’s apparently the time of year that they, uh, live up to their name, shall we say, down here on the Georgia coast). The end of events like ION always seems to...
read moreCrowded Aisles and Feelin’ Good with GLONASS
ION 2008 News Coverage: Jeff Chappell Blogs So the economy may be bad – perhaps even down the toilet, judging from the news coming out of Wall Street and the U.S. Treasury Dept. – the Federal Reserve selling bonds to raise money can’t be a good sign; I don’t care what excuse its bean counters offer. Listening to the BBC on the drive down to Savannah on Sunday, one would have thought it was October, 1929, all over again, and I suppose it may turn out that way in the end. But the economy doesn’t seem to have hurt this industry...
read moreThat Updated Galileo ICD is Great and All, But …
ION 2008 News Coverage: Jeff Chappell Blogs The GNSS industry wants to know what’s going on with Galileo, namely its Open Service Signal In Space Interface Control Document (OS SIS ICD), its future specifications, and so forth; it’s chomping at the bit, so to speak, to start designing equipment for it and making some oats off of it. But it’s getting a little skittish, worried that Europe is dragging its feet and that in the end, the ICD might not be so O, as in open and open for business. Europe, on the other hand, suggests...
read moreOpen Source Comes to GPS
ION 2007 News Coverage: Jeff Chappell Blogs Between military applications and the business that continues to grow exponentially around GNSS and GPS in particular, intellectual property is of paramount importance in this industry — especially considering that the root of or the reason for every product is the reception of RF signals freely available to anyone on the entire surface of the planet. But that hasn’t stopped the open-source software movement from coming to GPS applications development. Attendees here in Ft. Worth, Texas at the...
read moreGermany Readying GNSS for Galileo
ION 2007 News Coverage: Jeff Chappell Blogs There are three critical questions surrounding Europe’s proposed GNSS system: if, when and who — as in who will pay for it. But it seems as if both hardware and applications developers will have the tools they need to bring Galileo-based products to market if Europe comes up with the answers to those questions. That is, at least if German GNSS companies have anything to say about it. GNSS industry’s players—namely German companies involved in GNSS–having plenty of experience with...
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