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The European GNSS Agency (GSA) recently held a workshop on funding opportunities for European GNSS Applications in Horizon 2020.

Safety-critical and liability-critical GNSS-based applications are needed to enable Intelligent Transport Systems and smart mobility. This requires trusted GNSS signals that are authenticated and of appropriate integrity. Assessing GNSS signal integrity in complex urban environments is not easy, but the GLOVE FP7 project has successfully demonstrated one possible approach that uses inter-vehicle communication to collate information on GNSS signal quality from a number of vehicles for assessing the local integrity.

When commissioning the EGNOS Open Service on 1 October 2009, the European Commission published the Service Definition Document for the EGNOS Open Service (EGNOS OS SDD). A few months later, in early 2010, a public consultation was organised on the first release of this document to give interested parties an opportunity to express their views.

Following the launch of the Galileo Service Operator (GSOp) procurement procedure the European GNSS Agency (GSA) invites the European GNSS industry with an interest in taking part in the competition to participate in the Industry Day organised on 3 February 2015 with respect to that procurement.

The European GNSS Agency on behalf of the European Commission has released the new version for the three EGNOS Service Definition Documents (SDD) already available for the EGNOS users.

The 2014 Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) drew thousands of participants and speakers, and a plethora of exhibitors, including the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and EGNOS, Europe’s Satellite-Based Augmentation System.

The modernisation, integration and expansion of rail networks in the European Union is opening exciting new possibilities for Europe’s global navigation satellite systems (E-GNSS), Galileo and EGNOS – the topic of a recent seminar presented at by the European GNSS Agency (GSA).

Following a successful audit this month, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) has achieved ISO 9001 Certification for all activities.

Early registration for the workshop, scheduled 14 January 2015, is now open.

The Groningen Airport Eelde (GAE) is pioneering satellite-based landing procedures in the Netherlands with the publication of two LPV (Localiser Performance with Vertical Guidance) procedures. These new, EGNOS-enabled procedures improve accuracy and safety when aircraft land in a cost effective way. This development was supported by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) funded FP7 project ACCEPTA that is working to implement LPV procedures across Europe.