Google, Uber, and Baidu Headline ION GNSS+ 16 Urban Navigation Panel

Manassas, Virginia, August 29, 2016 – The Institute of Navigation announces that engineers from Google, Uber, Baidu, Broadcom, u-blox and the University of Texas will headline the Urban Navigation Panel being held during ION GNSS+ 16 September 12-16 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.

This elite collection of speakers are on the forefront of creating self-driving vehicles and the GPS systems that guide them and will present an overview of the techniques and technologies that enable vehicle navigation within cities, where buildings block the signals from GNSS satellites.

The Urban Navigation Panel will take place on Wednesday, September 14 at 1:45p.m.

Sponsored by the ION Satellite Division, ION GNSS+ is the world’s largest international technical meeting and showcase of GNSS technology, products and services and brings together international leaders in GNSS and related positioning, navigation and timing fields to present advances, introduce new technologies, update current policy, demonstrate products and exchange ideas.