Compass, Galileo PRS, Earth Observation, Education on Tap in Munich
February 14, 2012The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, convening March 13-15 in Germany, will for the first time include an Education Session. Also featured this year, a special session on Compass, the fast-growing Chinese constellation. A session will be dedicated to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): current status and perspectives of the European Earth-monitoring program. In addition, a session on the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) and related aspects is envisaged.
The SatNav Summit is a high-level European-led conference with and international participation from industry, science, and governments.It has moved steadily from a policy focus at its inception to including more and more technical content, featuring important announcements in recent years from Galileo, GLONASS, and Compass.
The opening plenary on the evening of March 13 and a full afternoon session on March 14 are devoted to the topic GNSS and Security. The Wednesday afternoon session will revolve around implications of the October 2011 European Parliament legislation enabling member states to "[each take their] own sovereign decision on which PRS users to authorize," not only for government security-critical applications, such as police, ambulance, critical infrastructure — and presumably military — but also civilian applications, such as safety-critical transportation, and the timing of financially-critical applications, as well as the security implications regarding receiver manufacturing and export.
The Education session, under the chairmanship of Daniel Ludwig, consultant, will feature views from panel members Reinhard Blasi (European GNSS Agency, Brussels, Belgium), Michel Bosco (Deputy Head of Unit, EU satellite navigation programmes: International Aspects and Applications, DG Enterprise, EC, Brussels, Belgium), Dr. Javier Ventura-Traveset (European Space Agency (ESA), Madrid, Spain), Fabio Dovis (Assistant Professor and Leader of the G-Train consortium, Politechnico die Torino, Turin, Italy), Baerbel Deisting (Institute of Space Technology and Space Applications (ISTA) Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Munich, Germany), Dr. Per Enge (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA), Peter A. Grognard (founder and Managing Director, Septentrio nv, Leuven, Belgium), and Pietro Giordano (ESA/ESTEC, Nordwijk, The Netherlands).
A Thursday afternoon session on Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) will inform on improvements in environmental management forthcoming from this EC-funded R&D program to understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security. Peacekeeping, nuclear proliferation, piracy at sea, illegal immigration, drug trafficking and protection of vital infrastructure are some of the areas where GMES can provide products and services to deliver timely, reliable information to European decision-makers.
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