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High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites for PNT
High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) are airships “quasi-”stationed at a height of 20-30 km, in an altitude range where atmospheric winds are milder. HAPS are normally solar powered, unmanned, large, helium filled and semi-rigid; they can be operational for several years.
HAPS have been studied in the telecom domain (ESA GSP HAPPIEST study), where they were briefly considered…
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Resilient, Trustworthy, Ubiquitous Time Transfer
Secure and reliable time transfer is a key enabler for the next generation of services worldwide. A number of different applications such as 5G mobile broadband, mobile multimedia broadcast, power grids, terrestrial positioning services, financial operations, IoT, big data and cloud processing will require accurate, secure and reliable time information to be able to work consistently and…
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Low-Cost GNSS Antenna Arrays for Improved Performance, Anti-Spoofing, and Meaconing and Interference Mitigation
The activity primarily targets GNSS antennas for autonomous driving vehicles, which is a fast growing market.
It is foreseen that future vehicles will rely less and less on humans, and more and more on Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), requiring reliable navigation based on several sensors (GNSS and others) in order to ensure security and safety inside and outside the vehicle in all…
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Support for Institutional Projects
Focused on participating States’ priorities, the action aims at supporting their national navigation activities along the whole value chain. Element 3 configures as an ad-hoc support element, which is envisaged per country and possibly per domain, for the development and promotion of products, applications and services based on GNSS and more widely on PNT systems.
Following participating…
Space GNSS Receiver for In-Orbit Demonstration of PPP
The object of the activity is to design, develop and validate/verified a GNSS space receiver capable to perform on board precise orbit determination (P2OD) in real time using precise GNSS orbit and clock corrections provided either by Geostationary satellites or Galileo Commercial Service (thus allowing on board autonomy w.r.t to ground stations).
The concept is similar to what is performed on…
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Weather Monitoring Based on Collaborative Crowdsourcing
The measurement of Integrated Water Vapour using GNSS stations from a network of reference stations have been demonstrated.
During the last years, the existence of multi- constellation and multi-frequency GNSS increases the effectiveness and reliability of such measurements for weather prediction. Currently the availability of affordable powerful hand-held GNSS receivers with…
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Cooperative Navigation and Cloud Processing
The current evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities, together with the proliferation in the last years of cloud platforms where storage and processing of data can, ideally, be handled on demand, has boosted the appearance of new applications and services in the positioning domain of potential interest for specific use cases. In particular, the processing in the cloud of GNSS…
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Pulsar Timescale Demonstration
The objective of this activity is to demonstrate the effectiveness of Pulsar Timescale for the generation and monitoring of Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time.
For the latter, the capabilities of the Galileo Processing Centre at ESA/ESTEC in terms of access to Galileo Experimental Sensor Stations and data processing capabilities will be…
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Multipath & Interference Error Mitigation Techniques for Future Maritime e-NAV Services
The study, characterisation, modelling and mitigation of multipath and interference in maritime environments for different operational scenarios are considered of paramount importance.
The objectives of this activity are to characterise the multipath and interference errors experienced by marine PNT receivers, in particular GNSS, and to derive suitable error models for maritime space-based PNT…
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Multi-System Multi-Sensor Maritime PNT Test Equipment
The activity "Multi-System Multi-Sensor Maritime PNT Test Equipment" will tackle the study of methods and techniques for the combined use of multiple systems and sensors inmaritime PNT receivers to characterise achievable classes of performance.
At the same time is will also require the implementation of an experimental platform for testing and benchmarking the combination of methods and…
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