# Inside GNSS

Inside GNSS (IG) is an international controlled circulation trade magazine and website owned by Gibbons Media and Research LLC. It covers space-based positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology for engineers, designers, and policy-makers of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). In the United States, GNSS is identified mainly with the government-operated Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS). InsideGNSS.com is the complimentary website of online news, events, digital newsletters, and webinars, and archived magazine articles.

## History

Inside GNSS began publication in January 2006; 19 years ago (January 2006), by Gibbons Media and Research LLC, a private company based in Eugene, Oregon USA, and owned by Glen G. Gibbons and Elizabeth A. Schmidkunz.

## Circulation

The English-language print publication has a circulation of 30,000 qualified subscribers, of which 7,000 are outside the United States.

## Editions

The suite of publications includes:
* Six print and six digital editions per year;
* Online news, events, and archived magazine articles;
* Twice-monthly digital newsletters and web seminars on technical topics.

## Content

The Inside GNSS editorial content has been heavily weighted towards issues of the four major GNSS operators: the United States (GPS), Russia (GLONASS), China (BeiDou), and the European Union (Galileo). Regional and augmentation systems, such as those developed by the United States: (WAAS, SBAS); Japan: (QZSS); and Europe: (EGNOS); as well as eLoran, the terrestrial radio-navigation system, are also covered.
As GNSS systems have developed and evolved, the magazine has covered the integration of GNSS with other PNT technologies to improve user equipment in places where satellite signals are hard to obtain, the implications for manufacturers and policy-makers as more satellite signals and new systems become available, and the political and legal problems, and opportunities that arise as location-based technology becomes increasingly accurate.
Inside GNSS was the first publication to cover several GNSS political decisions and controversies, and the first outside of scholarly publications to cover several GNSS technical milestones. The magazine presented the first stories about:
* the decision for the common GPS / Galileo civilian signal,
* the transformation of the European Galileo system from a public-private partnership to a European Commission-controlled programme;
* the first analysis of the new Beidou signal,
* the patent dispute between the U.S. and the E.U. over the L1 signal development,
* the formation of the International Committee on GNSS of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs,
* revitalization of the GLONASS system,
* and the first Galileo-only signal analysis.

### List of major articles by subject

| subject | articles |
| Galileo | More perils for Galileo . . . and other GNSS dramas Archived 2017-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 2, March–April 2007 GIOVE-B on the air: Understanding Galileo's new signals Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Akos, D., Gao, G., Enge, P., Walter, T., Inside GNSS, Vol. 3, No. 4, May–June 2008 Galileo on its own: First position fix Archived 2014-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Falcone, M., Binda, S., Breeuwer, E., Hahn, J., Spinelli, E., Gonzalez, F., López Risueño, G., Giordano, P., Swinden, R., Galluzzo, G., and Hedquist, A., Inside GNSS, Vol. 8, No. 2, March–April 2013 |
| GLONASS | GLONASS has "preliminary approval" to transmit CDMA GLONASS signals at L1, L5 Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, September 26, 2007 Replenishment of the GLONASS Constellation Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Chebotarev, V., Kosenko, V., Bartenev, V., Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 2, March–April 2007 Ivanov GLONASS Flap Obscures Program Reality Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, Gibbons, G., Inside GNSS, February 9, 2008 Russia Approves CDMA Signals for GLONASS, Discussing Common Signal Design, Gibbons, G., Inside GNSS, April 28, 2008 GLONASS–A New Look for the 21st Century Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, Gibbons, G., Inside GNSS, Vol. 3, No. 4, May–June 2008 Builders Notes: Russian GLONASS at the Stage of Active Implementation Archived 2014-06-26 at the Wayback Machine, Bartenev, V., Kosenko, V., Chebotarev, V., Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 2006 |
| BeiDou (compass) | Compass: And China's GNSS Makes Four Archived 2017-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 8, November–December 2006 GNSS over China: The Compass MEO satellite codes Archived 2014-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, Chen, A., De Lorenzo, D., Gao, G., Enge, P., Lo, S., Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 5, July–August 2007 Compass MEO Satellite Signals:Initial Observations and Analysis Archived 2018-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, Ghion, A., de Latour, A., Dantepal, J., Ries, L., Grelier, T., Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 4, May–June 2007 |
| Signals | GNSS album: Images and spectral signatures of the new GNSS signals Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Lo, S., Chen, A., Enge, P., Gao, G., Akos, D., Issler, J-L., Ries, L., Grelier, T., and Dantepal, J., Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 4, May–June 2006 |
| L5 Signal | Modernization milestone: Observing the first GPS satellite with an L5 payload Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, Chen, A., Parkinson, B., De Lorenzo, D., Akos, D., Gao, G., Heng, L., Enge, P., Lo, S., Walter, T., Inside GNSS, Vol. 4, No. 3, May–June 2009 First look: Observing the GPS L5 test transmission from SVN49 using software radio processing, Braasch, M., Gunawardena, S., Zhu, Z., Inside GNSS, Vol. 4, No. 3, May–June 2009 SVN49 and other GPS anomalies: Elevation-dependent pseudorange errors in Block IIRs and IIR-Ms Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Springer, T., Dilssner, F., Inside GNSS, Vol. 4, No. 4, July–August 2009 On the air: New signals from the first GPS IIF satellite Archived 2017-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, Thölert, S., Erker, S., Meurer, M., Heng, L., Phelts, E., Gao, G., Wong, G., Walter, T., and Enge, P., Inside GNSS, Vol. 5, No. 5, July–August 2010 |
| Common GPS / Galileo civil signal | MBOC: The New Optimized Spreading Modulation: Recommended for Galileo L1 OS and GPS L1C Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Hein, G., Ávila-Rodríguez, J-A., Wallner, S., Betz, J., Hegarty, C., Rushanan, J., Kraay, A., Pratt, A., Lenahan, L., Owen, J., Issler, J-L. and Stansell, T., Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 4, May–June 2006 BOC or MBOC?: The Common GPS/Galileo Civil Signal Design: A Manufacturers Dialog, Part 1 Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Stansell, T. with Fenton, P., Garin, L., Hatch, R., Knight, J., Rowitch, D., Sheynblat, L., Stratton, A., Studenny, J., and Weill, L., Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 5, July–August 2006 BOC or MBOC?: The Common GPS/Galileo Civil Signal Design: A Manufacturers Dialog, Part 2 Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Gibbons, G. with Fenton, P., Garin, L., Hatch, R., Kawazoe, T., Keegan, R., Knight, J., Kohli, S., Rowitch, D., Sheynblat, L., Stratton, A., Studenny, J., Turetzky, G. and Weill, L., Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 6, September 2006 |
| Civil signal patent dispute | Common GPS Galileo Civil Signal Could Go Back on the Table in Patent Dispute Archived 2014-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, April 30, 2012 MBOC Patent Dispute Could Affect U.S. Military, European Civil GNSS Users Archived 2018-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, May 19, 2012 USPTO Nears Approval of Troubling British Patent on New GPS Civil Signal Archived 2018-03-07 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, Vol. 7, No. 3, May–June 2012 A European Perspective on Patent Dispute over GPS-Galileo Civil Signal Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, Vol. 7, No. 3, May–June 2012 Brit Military Visit May Hasten Resolution of GPS Signal Patent Dispute Archived 2017-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, Vol. 7, No. 4, July–August 2012 UK Revokes Key GNSS Patent That Sparked Dispute over Cooperation, Interoperability Archived 2018-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, Divis, D. A., Inside GNSS, October 31, 2012 |
| Beidou signal | GNSS over China: The Compass MEO satellite codes Archived 2014-04-17 at the Wayback Machine, Chen, A., De Lorenzo, D., Gao, G., Enge, P., Lo, S., Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 5, July–August 2007 China adds details to Compass (Beidou II) signal plans Archived 2018-02-01 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, Vol. 3, No. 6, September–October 2008 China reveals updated Compass/ Beidou-2 GNSS signal plan Archived 2017-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, August 10, 2009 China begins broadcasts on latest Compass GNSS GEO satellite, Inside GNSS, June 11, 2010 China publishes official signal-in-space ICD for BeiDou satellite navigation open service Archived 2017-12-26 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, January 8, 2013 |
| GPS origin dispute | National Inventors Hall of Fame 2010 inductees include TIMATION developer Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, March 31, 2010 Letters: TIMATION developer's honor draws fire Archived 2017-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, Vol. 5, No. 3, May 2010 |
| United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs International Committee on GNSS (ICG) | ICG Working Group Takes On Issues Archived 2014-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, Inside GNSS, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 2006 ICG sets up new Providers Forum to pursue compatibility among GNSS systems, augmentation systems Archived 2017-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, Gibbons, G., Inside GNSS, Vol. 2, No. 6, September–October 2007 |

## Staff

The editor and publisher is Glen Gibbons, an Oregon journalist who has covered GNSS continuously since 1989, six years before the first U.S. satellite constellation was fully operational in 1995. In 2003, he received the U.S. Institute of Navigation's Norman P. Hays award for inspiration and support contributing to the advancement of navigation. He was the founding editor of GPS World, Galileo's World, and GPS World Newsletter.
The magazine's Washington correspondent, Dee Ann Divis, received the Robert D.G. Lewis Watchdog Award from the Society of Professional Journalists Washington D.C. Pro Chapter (SPJDC) in 2012 for the extensive coverage of the LightSquared communications network, and the controversy over its interference with GPS signals during 2011 and 2012. Divis also won the SPJDC's Dateline Award for Washington Correspondent in both 2012 and 2013. In 2009, Richard Fischer, a former Advanstar Communications vice-president and general manager joined Inside GNSS as Director of Business Development. Gwen Rhoads has served as the magazine's art director since 2006, and Peggie Kegel has been the magazine's circulation director since its founding.
In addition to Gibbons and Divis, the contributing editors are:
* Günter Hein, head of Galileo and EGNOS Operations and Evolution for the European Space Agency, and a member of the European Commission's signal task force.
* Mark Petovello, a professor of geomatics engineering at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), and a member of the Position Location and Navigation research group.
* European correspondent Peter Gutierrez, a senior reporter and editor based in Brussels, Belgium, who covers Europe's GNSS programmes.
The magazine has an international Editorial Advisory Council that includes several pioneer developers of GPS technology, including co-inventor of the Global Positioning System Bradford Parkinson, A.J. van Dierendonck, Tom Stansell, Phil Ward, and GPS policy developer Jules McNeff.