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ESA Navigation projects

Location Based Services (LBS) and Personal Mobility

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A handheld personal receiver would use satellite navigation to avoid traffic jams in city centres, find the nearest free parking space, or even the nearest pizza restaurant in an unfamiliar city.

Road

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Satellite navigation will help regulate road use and minimise traffic jams. If all vehicles are fitted with a satellite receiver and a data transmitter, their position can be relayed automatically to a central station.

Credits: ESA

Rail

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In a project called Integrail, funded by the European Space Agency, Kayser-Threde (D) in partnership with Bombardier Transportation/Rail Control Solutions (D) and ifEN GmbH (D) have developed a system that uses satellite-based navigation information for railway traffic management and signalling.

Maritime

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Satellite navigation systems benefit shipping. Photo: GEC-Marconi Ltd. and Canarctic Shipping

Aviation

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EGNOS will help to improve air safety.

Multi-modal Transport and Remote Asset Tracking

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EGNOS will help to improve transport services and to trace vehicles

Emergency Management and Law Enforcement

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Bad weather can ground a rescue operation

Helicopter Emergency Services (HEMS) deal with emergency evacuations and inter-hospital transport across Europe. Improved navigation information from EGNOS could mean fewer cancelled flights due to adverse weather conditions.

Credits: Europcopter

Technology and Facilities Development

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The GSTB-V1 processing centre is sited at the European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC) in The Netherlands. The aim is to solve the issues surrounding positioning, timing and integrity by making use of existing navigation data. These data are collected from a globally distributed network of sensor stations established in co-operation with the International GPS Service and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) community.

Credits: ESA

Last update: 20 February 2006

ESA Navigation Projects:

LBS and Personal Mobility

SARFOS - Search And Rescue Forward Operation Support System SKISPI - Sky Eye Spy EGNOS TRAN (Terrestrial Regional Augmentation Networks) – Personal Protection EGNOS TRAN – SISNET Special Handheld based Applications in Difficult Environment - SHADE

Road

Active Road Management Assisted by Satellite (ARMAS)Vehicle Black Box System (VBBS)

Rail

EGNOS Controlled Railway Equipment (ECORAIL)INTEGRAIL - GNSS-1 Rail User Navigation Equipment LOCOLOC RadioCompass Railway User Navigation Equipment (RUNE)

Maritime

EGNOS TRAN – Maritime Galileo and EGNOS for waterway transport (GALEWAT)GNSS Integrated Rx. GlobalWave Value-Added Server (GWVAS)The Maritime LOPOS EGNOS Test Bed (MARLET)

Aviation

EGNOS TRAN - Aviation GNSS for Airport Movements Monitoring and Alerting - GAMMA Management and Supervision System for Special Aircraft Operations (MASSAO)