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EU upgrades its GPS service
THE EU has started a new satellite location service that dramatically enhances the accuracy of the existing US GPS system.
Dubbed the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service or EGNOS, the service uses three satellites placed in geostationary orbit over the EU to refine standard GPS signals, improving the accuracy from 10 metres to just two.
"What we are doing today opens the door for European businesses and citizens to benefit from the myriad of better applications and new opportunities made possible by more precise navigation signals,” said Antonio Tajani, EU vice-president for Transport.
“We are laying the foundation stone of a very imminent future."
He continued that he hoped this would spur new business models such as road pricing and a new range of location-based services.
The service is not part of the EU’s Galileo satellite GPS system, which is expected to go live in the middle of the next decade, but EGNOS will be integrated into it. µ
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A geostationary orbit must either be over the equator or must bob back and forth between the northern and southern hemisphere. There does not exist a "geostationary orbit over the EU."
Not sure about their borders, really? Im sure you're probably one of those dumbed-down imbred rednecks from the south that still doesn't know if Puerto Rico is a part of the union or not. So sit down and not speak about things you have no clue about. BTW your college-level(doubt that you have any) education is "euro-pean" 8th grade education, so please do us all a favor..
Some errors in the article.
1) EGNOS has been up since at least 2005, it's not new... it has been set to 'safe to use for non safety of life applications' in the last two weeks however.
2) GPS errors out in the open are already at the level of 1-3 metres, even GLONASS is capable of 5-10 metre positioning 95% of the time you've got enough satellites in view. All EGNOS is doing is giving slight corrections and the ability to detect malfunctioning satellites very quickly.
3) Do you actually believe Galileo will go live by 2015? The EU is in a race for 3rd place with China over their COMPASS network, and all signs are pointing to China pulling into the lead. The only contribution of Galileo to the satellite navigation community has been to force GPS and GLONASS to modernize their systems.
http://eyeball-series.org/border-wall/border-wall.htm
In a few years I will be able to buy a keychain GPS, Galileo, EGNEOS device so I can log on the internet and find that I left my keys in my trouser pocket!
Isn't technology grand?
Oh, good. Now maybe the Euro-peons can finally precisely map borders between their countries, making it easier to start another world war over disagreements about what piece of land belongs to which country. None of this ambiguous mucking about.
@hexx
Because you will not mistakenly end up in a pub anymore?
so i won't be knocking on neighbour's door any more after friday evening out