[IGSMAIL-5079]: EGU2005 session G5 - SatNav at the crossroads...

[Hans van der Marel]

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IGS Electronic Mail      05 Jan 13:38:52 PST 2005      Message Number 5079
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Author: Felix Perosanz, Pedro Elosegui, Hans van der Marel

We would like to draw your attention to the following session to be held 
at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 24-29 April 2005:

G5    Satellite navigation techniques at the crossroads. How will Galileo 
and GPS interact?  
 
"Several events have taken place during the last year that have served to
shift Galileo from being a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) project
in the distant future to becoming an upcoming reality. Chief among them for
its potential scientific impact was the 2nd call of the Galileo Joint 
Undertaking (GJU) in the frame of the 6th Framework Programme (FP6) for 
Research and Development and the on-going work at ESA and its 
subcontractors. The aim of this session is to describe the status of 
the Galileo system, to address the critical question of how Galileo will 
interact with existing GNSS such as GPS, and to explore prospective 
scientific applications in the geosciences. To this end, this session 
shall introduce some programmatic aspects of Galileo: status review, 
signal characteristics and performances, GPS modernization plan, overview 
of the GJU FP6 call activities, and GNSS working group activities of the 
International GPS Service (IGS) and GJU. In addition, the question of 
the interaction between Galileo and GPS in terms of interoperability and 
signal hybridation shall be addressed. We encourage contributions that 
cover the broad area of innovative or improved science applications and 
techniques such as - but not restricted to - Three-carrier Ambiguity 
Resolution (TCAR), the use of pseudolites, high precision Real-Time 
Kinematic (RTK), altimetry, scatterometry, troposphere and ionosphere 
structure, dynamics and modeling, time transfer, and formation flying 
systems."

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 21 January 2005.  More 
information is available at

  http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/ga/egu05/programme_overview.html
  
With regards,

Felix Perosanz, Pedro Elosegui, Hans van der Marel