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EGNOS Terrestrial Regional Augmentation
Network (EGNOS TRAN)
Achievements
Investigations on the terrestrial broadcast of the EGNOS data.
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Brief Description
Due to the low elevation of the EGNOS satellites, their signal can hardly or even
not be received in certain regions. Many present and also future applications
require a high accuracy and also a high reliability of the position determination,
which can easily be performed by EGNOS. But if the EGNOS signal can not be received,
the requirements of those applications can no longer be satisfied. Therefore,
EGNOS TRAN evaluated various technical methods to broadcast the EGNOS signal via
terrestrial networks, like GSM/GPRS, Loran-C or GRAS. - Also economic aspects were
treated. Further, the project developed some application examples,
for which a demonstrator have been developed.
Project Partners
Telespazio, Italy (lead)
Airsys ATM, France
HiTec Marketing, Austria
Swedavia, Sweden
Telecom Italia Mobile, Italy
TeleConsult Austria, Austria
Thales Navigation, France
Financing
European Space Agency (ESA)
Status
Successfully completed in 2003
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