| Abstract |
SARBACAN: Galileo MEOSAR beacon prototype development under international cooperation Objectives: • Development and validation of the required 3 types of 406 MHz SAR beacons prototypes: maritime, aviation and personal usage. These prototypes, validated thanks to Galileo signals simulators, could be used as soon as the Galileo satellites will be available. They will all include the Return Link Service including the Return Link Messages request status management and the received RLM acknowledgement processing. Maritime and aviation beacons will include BPSK and MQPSK modulations allowing demonstrations of the 406 MHz SAR/Galileo beacons, showing the advantages of Galileo SAR service. • Develop international cooperation in the field of SAR beacons and GNSS receivers thanks to the presence in our consortium, of a Canadian side with a strong SAR experience, including a Mission/System level institution involved in the Cospas-Sarsat organisation, a beacon manufacturer and a GNSS/GPS navigation receiver manufacturer.
• Experiment innovative technologies, in order to improve the MEOSAR system capabilities: MQPSK modulation, GNSS receivers embedded in maritime and aviation beacons, RL service included in all beacons, optimisation of the performances of the GNSS receiver on its MEOSAR target. Consortium: • FDC (Fr) an engineering company acting as coordinator. • CNES (Fr) the French Space Agency. • KANNAD (Fr), industrialist specialized in maritime and aviation SAR beacons. • UniNE (CH) University of Neuchâtel specialised in the area of very low-power digital, analog, and mixed analog-digital VLSI design for microsystems. • PIAP (PO) Institute for Automation and Measurement. • CRC (Ca) Communication Research Center. • COBHAM (Ca) industrialist specialized in personal usage SAR beacons. • U-blox (CH) GPS and GNSS chipset manufacturer. • JRCC (No) Joint Rescue Coordination Centre North Norway. • NOVATEL (Ca) industrialist specialized in GNSS rec |
