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Wednesday, December 04, 2019
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) have launched the 2019 edition of its EGNOS User Satisfaction Survey. This survey will provide a better understanding of the value of EGNOS to end users and help ensure that future evolutions of the system continue to meet users’ needs.
Users…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Michael Mahieu from Case New Holland presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop an overview of this Italian-based company, which is part of the Chrysler-FIAT group. He explained that EGNOS is the starting point for precision farming for many farmers in Europe, as it is easy to use, there are no subscription fees and accuracy is sufficient for many…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Mr. Massimiliano Ciaffi, from for RFI, introduced the ERSAT Programme based on ERTMS and Satellite solutions where EGNOS is viewed as an external service to ERTMS during the second day of the Annual EGNOS workshop.
ERSAT programmes are designed to develop and validate EGNSS applications compatible with ERTMS evolution, including the…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
AgroTiC is a French Monitoring Centre for Digital Agriculture Adoption that aims to support the digitalisation of French farming. Adopting GNSS and EGNOS in particular in France was the topic of the presentation provided in the Annual EGNOS workshop. Nina Lachia confirmed that according to the survey conducted by AgroTiC, EGNOS is one of the…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
Per Erik Kvam, GNSS group project manager at Kongsberg Seatex, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the status of the Draft Guidelines for manufacturers for the implementation of SBAS in Shipborne Receivers which are being developed thanks to the collaboration of multiple EGNOS stakeholders.
To further progress in this work, GSA set up the…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
On the second day of the Annual EGNOS workshop Mr. Horvath from Alberding GmbH introduced their software targeting maritime authorities in delivering DGPS navigation services, ready to use EGNOS and EDAS as an input. Following his introduction, Mr. Horvath presented the set-up of the French DGPS navigation service, which uses the EGNOS message…
Tuesday, December 03, 2019
On the second day of the Annual EGNOS workshop, Mr. Rebollo and Mr. Argul from Puertos del Estado introduced their current IALA DGPS network, the largest in Europe by number of stations.
Today, the Spanish IALA DGPS network is facing obsolescence issues and maintaining the service requires a re-engineering project. In this situation, Puertos…
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Mr. de Piccoli (Telespazio), began his presentation in the Annual EGNOS workshop by explaining the U-Space concept, a set of procedures and services that aim to enable safe use of airspace for large number of drones, as well as the specific services to which EGNOS could contribute. After that, the issues…
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Mr. Vázquez from ESSP-SAS introduced EDAS and its services, in the in Annual EGNOS workshop, focusing on the variety of GNSS products that are delivered by EDAS, and their potential to address a wide range of user needs. Then the classification of the active EDAS-based applications/usage cases was presented by market segment, showing that EDAS…
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Carmen Aguilera (GSA) presented on the second day of the in the Annual EGNOS workshop the methodology defined by GSA to foster adoption of EGNOS in maritime, rail, agriculture and geomatics market segments. She provided an overview of the priority activities for GSA in each…