Galileo and EGNOS

playing a key role in Europe’s global monitoring programme

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Galileo and EGNOS: playing a key role in Europe’s global monitoring programme

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The European satellite navigation pro-grammes, Galileo and EGNOS, will be important partners in Europe’s GMES programme (Global Monitoring for Environ-ment and Security), providing critical data for building the most complete picture ever of our complex world.

Galileo is Europe’s independent global navigation satellite system. Fully inter-operable with America’s GPS and Rus-sia’s GLONASS, it is set to become a new cornerstone of tomorrow’s worldwide navigation systems. EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) is Europe’s ‘pre- Galileo’ system, already providing augmentation signals suitable for safety critical applications such as fl y-ing aircraft or navigating ships through narrow channels.

Another major European initiative will use data from Galileo and EGNOS to provide a clearer vision of the environment and human activities; the GMES programme will gather data received most notably from space-based Earth observation (EO) satellites, but also from ground-based monitoring systems, allowing authorities, businesses and citizens to examine and better understand the state of our world and its evolution. In addition to environ-mental data, GMES can provide impor-tant security-related information for law enforcement, humanitarian and crisis management operations.

GMES is an ongoing initiative, currently delivering an initial set of ready services, to be followed by a fuller range of services that will transform the way we see the planet. Crucial to its success is the full ex-ploitation of data and information provid-ed by satellite navigation and positioning systems such as Galileo and EGNOS.

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EnvironmentManaging the oceans and seas

Environment

Improved EGNOS and Galileo services will be used to track pollutants, dangerous goods and natural hazards such as ice-bergs, to map the oceans, study tides, cur-rents and sea levels – all crucial elements of the GMES initiative. State-of-the-art satellite positioning will help monitor the atmosphere, water vapour for weather forecasting and climate studies, and the ionosphere for radio communications, space science and even earthquake pre-diction. Along these lines, the EU-funded GEO6 project is working to foster possible novel applications of European GNSS sig-nals within the scientifi c community for use in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere and the oceans.

Allowing transporters to calculate more direct and more effi cient routes will cut down on fuel consumption and pollutant emissions, while the movements of wild animals, including large sea mammals and endangered species, can be tracked to help preserve their habitats.

One EU project working in this area is the BEAR initiative, aimed at develop-ing improved wildlife tracking and man-agement techniques. BEAR partners are working on improved tracking algorithms which may have general application in a variety of diffi cult environments. The GSA (European GNSS Authority) says improve-ments in animal tracking can have direct commercial benefi ts as well; knowledge of the behaviour of whales off the Atlantic coast, for example, or bears in Romania, can have applications in both animal con-servation and eco-tourism sectors.

Managing the oceans and seas

The EU-funded MARUSE project has al-ready demonstrated how innovative systems such as Galileo can support the delivery of reliable, effi cient and cost-eff ective navigation services for the benefi t and safety of mariners. In a re-cent demonstration in Oban, Scotland, project partners placed both virtual and real emergency buoys over a simulated shipwreck.

Another EU-funded project, MARGAL is aimed at demonstrating the use of dif-ferential corrections and integrity alarms to provide even more accurate and reli-able waterborne navigation, ultimately contributing to harmonised and seamless positioning services from the high seas to inland waterways.

This is precisely the kind of service that will form a key part of the wider GMES system, delivering detailed positioning information, which, together with the full range of environmental and security-related Earth Observation data, will give us a clearer picture than ever of the Earth’s oceans and waterways.

Services based on improved Galileo sig-nals will also include fl eet management and detailed mapping, allowing rapid re-sponse to maritime emergencies and se-curity threats. Sea-based industries such as fi shing will also see more eff ective in-formation exchange between vessels and stations, improved fi shing capabilities and improved navigation aids for fi shermen. GMES and Galileo will also be crucial tools in detection, monitoring and cleanup of oil and other toxic spills.

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Management of land resourcesEnergy

Management of land resources

Europe has a notable history of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, landslides, fl oods and volcanic activity. Over nearly 50 years, geodesists and surveyors devel-oped deformation-monitoring techniques based on traditional land surveying equip-ment, such as theodolites, electronic dis-tance meters (EDMs) and levels.

Since the 1980s, these traditional tech-niques have been replaced by satellite positioning technologies. The emergence of Galileo and EGNOS will contribute substantially to the accuracy and reli-ability of satellite measurements, thereby improving land deformation monitoring. Moreover, the availability of Galileo and

EGNOS signals with an increased number of monitoring points will provide wider spatial coverage.

On a related front, the EU-funded MONI-TOR project is demonstrating the use of European GNSS for environmental and civil engineering monitoring, showing, through pilot projects, the added benefi ts of EGNOS and Galileo. Project partners are developing a new operational centre for environmental and assets monitoring, an-alysing the barriers to wider penetration of GNSS within the land survey and civil engineering markets and proposing ena-blers to overcome these barriers, covering needed technology advances, strategies for market penetration and a comprehen-sive regulatory framework.

Energy

The design, construction and operation of energy networks for electricity, oil and gas require accurate localisation and timing systems. Power grids must be continuous-ly monitored to ensure effi cient operation. When a power line breaks or a weakness appears in the grid, it is vital that moni-toring instruments are synchronised with maximum accuracy. The improvements in existing navigation services represented by Galileo and EGNOS will off er new pos-sibilities for energy transport and distribu-tion. Once again, this is exactly the kind of crucial information that will form the backbone of future GMES services.

Similarly, in the oil and gas sector, ma-rine seismic exploration will increasingly benefi t from Galileo services to seismic acquisition vessels and seismic streamer and gun arrays. High-resolution surveys of new sites and identifi cation of geo-morphologic or geophysical risks will also increase the safety of drilling activities.

The EU-funded GIGA project is a prime example of work being carried out in this area. GIGA is analysing, demonstrating and disseminating a wide variety of posi-tive impacts of EGNOS and Galileo for high precision positioning applications in the area of energy exploitation and supply.

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Emergency responseAgriculture

Emergency response

Improved management of emergency situa-tions has been another key aim of the GMES initiative, making it heavily reliant on GNSS-derived data. Dedicated GNSS position-ing devices available for tourists or hikers, amusement park and museum visitors, even shoppers within large shopping centres, will provide higher than ever security levels, al-lowing the location of stolen property, or lost pets or individuals, enabling more crime prevention and life-saving search and rescue operations.

Crucially, Galileo services will include a glo-bal Search and Rescue (SAR) function, based on the operational Cospas-Sarsat system. Galileo satellites will be equipped with spe-cial transponders able to transfer distress signals from user transmitters to a rescue coordination centre.

A key example of EU-funded work in this area is the SPESSS project, now developing innovative EGNOS-based applications and services for ‘special events’ management, with a major focus on security, safety and emergency operations. Special events can include sporting events, meetings and concerts where large numbers of peo-ple come together in a defi ned area for a brief period. This kind of concentration of thousands of individuals can place unusual stress on infrastructure and services.

Meanwhile, the VASER project is looking for new strategies in disaster management. VASER partners are bringing together EGNOS and Galileo navigation technolo-gies and the most advanced visualisation technologies such as those more typically associated with GMES, to support a disas-ter mission control centre. Tasks include the provision of important information to fi eld teams regarding their location and the location of hazards, victims, and means of support.

Agriculture

The agricultural community has long been a key target benefi ciary of GMES services. By integrating Galileo and EGNOS with EO monitoring technologies, farmers large and small will benefi t from more effi cient distribution and dilution of agricultural chemicals and fertilisers, improving parcel yield thanks to customised treatment and more effi cient property management.

Partners in the EU-funded FIELDFACT project are already working to promote the use of GNSS in the agricultural com-munity through the demonstration of in-novative EGNOS and Galileo applications.

With the active engagement of a range of stakeholders, FIELDFACT is develop-ing a useful and simple GNSS application for small farmers as well as a higher-end demonstrator that collects and integrates land and crop positioning data with other farm management data to reduce the ad-ministrative workload for large farms and co-operatives.

FIELDFACT will promote these applica-tions and other GNSS opportunities through professional networks, stimu-lating the development of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for useful content collection and sharing.

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Global securityHumanitarian aid

Global security

Today, space is a strategic area of growing importance for security. Europe is currently considering a number of new potential security-related space capabilities, includ-ing a space situational awareness capac-ity enabling detection of debris and other dangerous objects in space, reducing the risk of European satellites colliding or being destroyed, and early warning satellites ca-pable of detecting ballistic missile launches, allowing monitoring of compliance with non-proliferation treaties and, if necessary, giving early warning of attack.

On the ground, the GMES initiative already encompasses a vital security dimension; civil protection and planning agencies are major users of observation systems permit-ting the evaluation and prevention of catas-trophes or disasters, whether of human or natural origin.

Galileo and EGNOS will be major contribu-tors to GMES security-related services. The encrypted Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) and Safety of Life Service (SoL) will provide unprecedented accu-racy, extreme robustness against jamming and reliable detection of problems within 10 seconds. These services will cater for security authorities, including the police and military, and safety-critical transport applications, from air-traffi c control to au-tomated aircraft landing.

The EU-funded MENTORE project is aiming to defi ne a roadmap for GNSS technologies and services in the tracking- and tracing-reg-ulated markets. The tracking and control of radioactive fi ssile materials is a case in point, ensuring the protection of both citizens and the environment. MENTORE partners say current remote tracking and tracing systems use available GPS signals, but EGNOS and Galileo will feature enhanced performance and deliver new services such as advanced signal authentication.

Humanitarian aid

Future humanitarian aid operations will be heavily dependant on Galileo and EGNOS, telecommunications, and Earth Observation or GMES technologies. The combination of these and other tools make possible a set of applications and procedural improvements that will drasti-cally change operations in this domain.

GNSS is already being used extensively in emergency management and law en-forcement, but much less in the fi eld of humanitarian aid. The EU-backed HARM-LESS project is collaborative eff ort by the European Commission, the GNSS in-dustry, and technology experts, with the objective of promoting the use of the European navigation satellite systems in humanitarian aid and relief activities.

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The European satellite navigation programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, will be important partners in Europe’s GMES programme (Global Monitor-ing for Environment and Security), providing critical data for building the most complete picture ever of our complex world.