GNSS case studies

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    Mobile location-based services use the geographic location of a personal handset – such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), smart phone or navigation device – either to enhance existing applications or to enable new applications.

    These services may either...

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    Ships of all sizes converge on areas surrounding coastal ports and access to waterways. In managing marine traffic in these congested areas, authorities have implemented traffic routeing, ship reporting and vessel traffic services (...

    GNSS market segment:
    Maritime and Inland Waterways
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    Efficient  and  sustainable  farming  solutions  are  needed  now  more  than  ever,  as competition  in the agriculture industry continues to increase and production costs have to be considered very carefully. Precision agriculture is a  highly  effective  farming ...

    GNSS market segment:
    Agriculture
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    EGNOS continues to provide fertile ground for successful agricultural applications and companies such as CLAAS Agrosystems are harvesting its potential: according to Mr Klaus-Herbert Rolf, the company's...

    GNSS market segment:
    Agriculture
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    Since the beginning of the 20th century, the growing demands for more food forced farmers to adopt resource-intensive and unsustainable practices, which increased both economic and environmental costs.

    By the mid-1990s, new techniques were developed to make...

    GNSS market segment:
    Agriculture
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    As a means of reducing congestion, several cities and countries have already set up or are envisaging the implementation of a charging system for road users.

    Road pricing

    Toll gates are an inadequate means of collecting charges along multiple and small...

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    EGNOS is the European satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS), comparable to WAAS in the USA. Its...

    GNSS market segment:
    Aviation and Drones
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    Satellite navigation offers a means of global navigation, available 24/7 in all weather conditions. Although GPS was designed for military purposes, these features rapidly attracted the attention of the civil aviation...

    GNSS market segment:
    Aviation and Drones
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    EGNOS, the European SBAS system, has been designed to answer the aviation sector’s needs for secure landing approaches with the EGNOS...

    GNSS market segment:
    Aviation and Drones
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    The requirements for integrity and continuity in the published version of AMC 20-28 are more stringent than those in the NPA and are inconsistent with PBN and some...

    GNSS market segment:
    Aviation and Drones