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Chile’s Galileo Information Centre launches a series of webinars to introduce Galileo in Latin America

The Galileo Information Centres (GIC), an initiative of the European Commission and DG-DEFIS, are facilitating the introduction of EGNSS in Latin America. The recently-established Centre in Chile – providing services to the Galileo user community in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador – is organising a series of webinars to introduce Galileo to the Latin America user community, and showcase the benefits that the European GNSS can bring to the regional markets and stakeholders.

Chile’s Galileo Information Centre launches a series of webinars to introduce Galileo in Latin America

The Galileo Information Centres, funded by the European Commission (EC) and the DG Defence Industry and Space (DG-DEFIS), are of promoting the introduction of the European GNSS (EGNSS) programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, in Latin America. The Centres monitor local and regional satellite navigation initiatives, identifying potential markets and stakeholders, and providing support to users Read more…

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Satnav loss might shut down sea, warns ESA-backed study

Satellite navigation is precise, reliable and available continuously around the globe, but overreliance on it presents a clear and present danger to the smooth passage of maritime trade, concludes a major ESA-backed study.

Maritime traffic around British Isles

With seaborne trade projected to double by 2030, the MarRINav project used a simulation approach to ‘stress test’ current navigation methods along highly trafficked shipping lanes around the British Isles. Every day more than 1.36 million tonnes of cargo arrive at major UK ports, guided predominantly by signals from space. Read more…

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#MyGalileoDrone competition 2020

Following Galileo initial service declaration in 2016, the increasing availability of Galileo–enabled receivers and the fast-growing market of drone-based applications and services, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) market activities are focusing on Galileo “Good Use” by increasing the awareness and stimulating its use by entrepreneurs and general public.

#MyGalileoDrone competition 2020

Through the #MyGalileoDrone contest, the GSA aims at encouraging the development of applications and services based on drones using Galileo positioning, offering high accuracy and increased robustness, in order to stimulate business creation in this new, growing, and innovative market. Read more…

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Third GNSS Raw Measurements Taskforce Workshop hosted by GSA

The third GNSS Raw Measurements Taskforce Workshop will take place on June 26, 2019 at the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) Headquarters in Prague. The objective of the workshop is to share the Task Force member`s experience and progress around the use of raw measurements within Android devices. Read more…

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Galileo app competition 2019 proves power of dual-frequency

Europe’s students and young researchers were challenged to design a smartphone app to take advantage of Galileo’s dual-frequency signals. The winning entries should soon be available to the public.

Satnav writing using single, dual frequency and precise correction signals

Run by ESA in collaboration with the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency – GSA – plus the European Commission with the support of Google, a total of five teams made it to the final, which took place at ESA’s ESTEC technical heart in the Netherlands. Read more…

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New EU regulation: Galileo present in all smartphones to support 112 emergency calls (E112)

A recently published Commission Delegated Regulation sets out measures to introduce Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) capability, particularly Galileo capability, in smartphones placed on the European Union market from 17 March 2022, so that they can support the transfer of caller location information from GNSS (at least Galileo) in the event of 112 emergency calls (E112).

A large majority of phone calls to the 112 emergency number are placed from mobile phones. These calls already support the sending of location information to emergency services. However, this information is not based on GNSS. Read more…

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Galileo empowers IoT solutions

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), including Galileo, play a key role in the Internet of Things (IoT), and positioning, velocity and timing information supports a wide range of context-aware applications, from drones and driverless cars to asset tracking.

In recent years, access to GNSS technology has developed exponentially, quickly progressing from the appearance of the first GPS navigation equipment to the current situation, with more than 6 billion GNSS devices available globally. What’s more, the arrival of the IoT has considerably increased the number of services and applications that require positioning information. Read more…

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