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THE INSTITUTE OF NAVIGATION: ADVANCING MODERN NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES D GREJNER-BRZEZINSKA1 (1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science, COLUMBUS, USA.
_2IK0Z5R10 The Institute of Navigation is a non -profit professional society dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of navigation. It serves a diverse community, including those intereste d in air, space, marine, land navigation, and position determination. Although basically a national organization, its membership is worldwide, and it is affiliated with the International Association of Institutes of Navigation. ION members include professi onal navigators, astronomers, cartographers, photogrammetrists, meteorologists, engineers, physicists, educators, geodesists, surveyors, general aviation and airline pilots, and mariners. Corporate membership includes industrial corporations, civil and mil itary government agencies, private scientific and technical institutions, universities and training academies, and consulting firms. One of the primary goals of the ION is to encourage the development, operation, and use of navigation and position determin ation systems incorporating satellite based elements, namely the Global Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS). This paper will explain the role of the ION in advancing the navigation technology, with a special emphasis on GNSS extension and modernization, s pace-based and ground -based augmentation, and integration with other sensors, such as inertial and imaging technology, to improve positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Modern trends in navigation sensors and technological, conceptual and algorithmic d evelopments in sensor integration will be also discussed. Special emphasis will be placed on the synergy between the ISPRS and ION research activities in precision geolocation and imaging sensor orientation for geospatial intelligence, r emote sensing and mapping applications.
