Title :
The European Space Agency free SBAS software developments: Learning, practising and accessing the EGNOS performances in real-time
Author :
Mathur, A.R. ; Toran, F. ; Pandele, C.A. ; Houdek, M. ; Doubek, J.
Author_Institution :
EGNOS Project Office, Eur. Space Agency (ESA), Toulouse, France
Abstract :
Since 2002, the European Space Agency (ESA) has introduced two important data access elements. First, the SISNeT (Signal-In-Space over the interNET) data server, and later, in 2003, the EMS (EGNOS Message Server) data server, offering real-time and online access to the messages transmitted by the European Space Agency (ESA) EGNOS System, respectively. In addition to the wide mosaic of applications that SISNeT has opened and the potential of EMS in the context of EGNOS performance qualification and monitoring, ESA has found a remarkable potential oriented to SBAS Education behind those two services. Therefore, ESA is working, since 2002, on the development of five tools which support not only SBAS performance monitoring, but also SBAS Education. All of them are available for free download, with no additional constraints or conditions. These tools are widely used in different contexts, including post-graduate courses in European universities, R&D activities in technical centers, European SBAS-related projects, etc. These tools are mainly based on the exploitation of the potential offered by SISNeT and EMS.
Keywords :
Internet; file servers; satellite communication; software engineering; EGNOS message server; EGNOS performance; European Space Agency free SBAS software development; SBAS education; SBAS performance monitoring; SISNeT; data access element; data server; online access; signal in space over the internet; Education; Europe; Internet; Real-time systems; Satellites; Servers; Software; EGNOS; SBAS education; software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Satellite Navigation Technologies and European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing, (NAVITEC), 2012 6th ESA Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Noordwijk
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2010-8
DOI :
10.1109/NAVITEC.2012.6423118