And the Emmy Goes to... CRC's Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory

CRC's Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory (ATEL) will share in an Emmy Award to be presented at the January 2009 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. 

ATEL is among four organizations being recognized for their contributions to standardizing the digital television system, known as Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which will soon replace the current analog television system, known as National Television System Committee (NTSC). The switch will take place in the United States by February 17, 2009, and in Canada by August 31, 2011.

ATEL will share the Emmy with the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, the Advanced Television System Committee and the Advanced Television Test Center.

Additional information can be found at:
http://www.crc.gc.ca/en/html/crc/home
/mediazone/whatsnew/nov3-7_08_2.

John Lodge named IEEE Fellow

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named CRC's John Lodge IEEE Fellow with the citation: "For contributions to the application of signal processing and communications theory."

John was among a select group of engineers elevated
to Fellow by the IEEE Board of Directors, following the recommendation of the Fellow Committee. The designation takes effect January 1, 2009.

John is Research Program Manager in CRC's Communications Signal Processing group.

Advanced Radio Systems Group Recognized for Papers

Steve Bernier and François Lévesque of CRC's Advanced Radio Systems group were recently recognized by the SDR Forum for their paper "Interconnecting JTRS SCA Applications Development." The paper, presented at the SDR 2007 technical conference, received a Best Paper Award at the SDR 2008 technical conference, held in Washington, D.C., in October.

Approaching each annual conference, SDR Forum's best paper selection committee measures the impact of papers presented the previous year, in several categories. This is actually the second SDR Forum Best Paper Award for members of the Advanced Radio Systems group. They were also recognized in 2004. 

Steve Bernier is Project Leader, Software Defined Radio, and François Lévesque is Computer Researcher, Advanced Radio Systems group. 

Satellite Systems Group Researcher Recognized for Presentation

Richard Paiement received a Best Presentation Award from the Institute of Navigation for his paper, "Dilution of Precision Factor in Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue Systems." Richard's paper was presented at the 21st International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2008), held in Savannah, Georgia in September. It reported on results from an R&D project, partially funded by the New Initiatives Fund program of Canada's National Search and Rescue Secretariat, to investigate the impact of MEOSAR constellation on position estimation accuracy over Canada for different geolocation techniques.

Richard is Project Leader, Advanced Systems and Technologies, in CRC's Satellite Systems Research division.