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Van Dierendonck Receives PLANS Kershner Award
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May 29, 2008
GPS World
The Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2008 Executive Com=
mittee=20
presented the Kershner Award to Dr. A.J. Van Dierendonck for his sustaine=
d=20
contributions to the technology of navigation and position equipment, sys=
tems=20
and practices over his lifetime. The award was made during the IEEE/ION P=
LANS=20
conference in Monterey, California, May 6-8, 2008.
Van Dierendonck is an international consultant as AJ Systems and a genera=
l=20
partner of GPS Silicon Valley. He has worked on the NAVSTAR Global Posit=
ioning=20
System (GPS) for 34 years, and has been a member of the Editorial Advisor=
y Board=20
of GPS World magazine since 1994. He has received numerous awards from t=
he US=20
Institute of Navigation (ION) =E2=80=94 the Burka Award (twice), the Kepl=
er Award, the=20
Thurlow Award =E2=80=94and he is an ION Fellow. He is current Chairman o=
f the ION=E2=80=99s=20
Satellite Division. He is also an IEEE Life Fellow and is in the U.S. Ai=
r=20
Force=E2=80=99s GPS Hall of Fame. His current work activities include su=
ch subjects as=20
ionospheric scintillation effects on GNSS and GNSS spectrum protection=20
(supporting NASA). He is co-chairman of two RTCA SC159 Working Groups =E2=
=80=94 WG1=20
dealing with modernized GNSS signals and WG7 dealing with antenna standar=
ds for=20
aviation. With GPS Silicon Valley he developed GPS ionospheric scintilla=
tion=20
and TEC monitors that are used worldwide.
PLANS also awarded the Walter Fried Memorial Best Paper award for =E2=80=9C=
Compact,=20
Low-Power Chip-Scale Atomic Clock=E2=80=9D co-written by J.F. DeNatale, R=
=2EL. Borwick, C.=20
Tsai, P. Stupar, Y. Lin, Teledyne Scientific Company; R.A. Newgard, R. Be=
rquist,=20
Rockwell Collins, Inc.; M. Zhu, Agilent Laboratories.
The Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) is a biennial tech=
nical=20
conference that occurs in the spring of even numbered years. PLANS seeks=
to=20
provide a forum for public and private enterprises or organizations from =
around=20
the world to share the latest advances in navigation technology. This con=
ference=20
is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Societ=
y=20
(AESS), and the Institute of Navigation (ION).
