NavIT
Navigation systems and IT in Denmark
Project background
The everyday use of IT will in the future be strongly influenced by the development in geographical and navigational information, and in navigational information a revolutionary development is taking place in Denmark. The American GPS (Global Position Systems) is in 2005 expanded with a European supplement EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System), that ensures a greater accuracy and - not least - reliability.
The range of the development will be huge. It will change many of the functions in the society in interaction with the development in communication systems, geographical information systems and the miniaturizing of electronic systems. It will affect as varied fields of applications as transport (airplanes, ships and cars), agriculture, environment, emergency services, services for mobile telephony and much more. There is a need for demonstration of the development in navigation technology that is taking place now to evaluate it in the special Danish context with an already well developed infrastructure. And there is a need to to create the knowledge for this particular use of IT systems that in time will enable Danish companies to establish competitive products and services.
Project description
The project will combine a thorough evaluation of the quality of the new EGNOS system and the future Galileo system with practical use in environmental control in agriculture, safety in transport with ships in Danish waters and surveillance of air traffic in and around airports.
Development of competences will thereafter take place on several fronts. In a direct contacts with other Danish companies the results will be brought further through the already established Galileo network at Aalborg University.
Source: European Space Agency (www.esa.int)
Financing
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Participants
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, DIAS Bygholm
Dansk GPS Center, Aalborg Universitet
Project Co-ordinator
Professor Kai Borre
For further details on the research project contact Project Co-ordinator.
January 2006