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Monday, June 29, 2020
EGNOS, Europe's regional satellite navigation system, is at the heart of precision agriculture. With 97% of new tractors in Europe being equipped with EGNOS, EU agriculturists can lower farming associated costs while minimizing their environmental footprint. We met a user!
Take the opportunity to discover how EGNOS supports...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are nowadays the key positioning technology in the smart irrigation sector, having replaced former methods of estimating position information, which were based on mechanical switches, resolvers and encoders. Farmers currently employ GNSS-based control systems for both linear irrigation machines...
Friday, June 12, 2020
By reinforcing synergies with other space technologies and working with all the Member States, while creating a favourable ecosystem, the impact of the space sector on economic growth in Europe will largely expand and create more jobs, according to European GNSS Agency (GSA) Acting Executive Director Pascal Claudel.
The 2nd...
Friday, June 12, 2020
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Earth observation experts came together at a webinar organised by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) on 26 May to discuss how combining navigation and positioning from the European GNSS (EGNSS), EGNOS and Galileo, with the data and services offered by the European Earth observation programme,...
Friday, June 12, 2020
GNSS and Earth observation experts came together at a webinar organised by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) on 26 May to discuss how combining Galileo and EGNOS navigation and positioning tools with the data and services offered by EU Earth observation programme Copernicus can be used to improve food security and make agriculture in...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The European Space Programmes are playing a key role in managing the COVID-19 pandemic and in particular in supporting emergency and medical operations in all weather, anytime, when they are most needed. We have talked to air ambulance and emergency operators using EGNOS about their experience and how EGNOS is helping them to take care...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, has been augmenting the GPS signal and providing services to users in Europe since its initial operations back in June 2005. About to celebrate its 15th anniversary, the system is going from strength to strength, with its coverage area set to expand and work towards the next...
Friday, May 8, 2020
As the European Union celebrates Europe Day on May 9, we take a look at how the EU space programmes, themselves a result of European cooperation, are helping the European Union achieve concrete goals of a more united and prosperous Europe.
Europe Day 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Under the umbrella of the Portuguese Cycling Federation (FPC)1 and in collaboration with other bodies such as Turismo de Portugal, the Cyclin’Portugal’s programme was restructured in 2019 in response to the increasing number of leisure bikers and cyclotourists arising all around the country.
The main objective of this program is the...
Monday, April 27, 2020
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has launched two calls for papers ahead of its GNSS Raw Measurements Taskforce Workshop, to be held online on 28 May 2020. The first of these calls targets innovative work using raw measurements while the second is related to testing EGNOS Data Access Service (EDAS) corrections in smartphones. If you are...