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Astrium Navigation Systems & Applications can provide support in
- Design and analysis of Satellite Navigation Systems
- Conception of positioning related applications
- Design and analysis of location-based service concepts
Consultancy and support in all aspects of system architecture:
Global Navigation Satellite Systems:
The involvement in the Galileo Programme in different projects - as GALA, GILT, Comparative System Study and Galilei - has contributed significantly to the establishment of a profound understanding of the European GNSS.
Astrium's responsibilities included amongst others the entire system design, signal design and performance engineering activities. Through this work, we have obtained a strong expertise in the Galileo infrastructure, the system's performance and the whole Galileo mission.
A deep understanding of all worldwide GNSS and augmentation systems is a pre-requisite for the development of a new navigation system like Galileo. Due to its participation in many various analysis and measurement campaigns, Astrium has developed competences in all present GNSS systems such as GPS and GLONASS, and augmentation systems like WAAS and EGNOS.
The future evolution and performance of these systems are permanently under observation, as this knowledge is the basis for the daily work on Galileo.
Communication Systems:
Additionally to GNSS, Astrium has been involved in the system design and analysis activities of communication systems like LEO1, kitcomm, Orbcomm as well as of Search and Rescue (SAR) systems.
Location-based services:
Location-based services will play a very important role in the future of satellite navigation applications, combining positioning, navigation and mobile communication with services that provide additional relevant information for the user: Depending on the known user position, the handheld is provided with additional information to the surrounding area, like restaurants, hospitals etc.
Astrium has developed and analysed a concept and the system design for a location based service used applied during the Soccer World Championship in Germany, 2006. Different means have been combined, as can be seen in the following figure:
Our engineers at Astrium Navigation Systems & Applications have deep know-how and understanding of:
- Galileo, EGNOS and other GNSS and SBAS systems
- Requirement analysis and consolidation
- Mission Definition
- System Design
- Algorithms Definiton
- Service Volume Simulation and End-to-End software development
- System Performance assessment
- Experimentation and System Verification
- GNSS-based and GNSS independent Positioning Solutions
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