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ARTICLES
Winter
2000 Table of Contents
The First EGNOS
Trials at Sea:
In Columbus' Wake
Luigi
Sinapi, Sally Basker, Giorgio Solari, Hugues
Secretan, and Jean-Pierre Barboux
Tests of the European Geostationary Navigation
Overlay Service in Genoa harbour assessed its performance for hydrography,
coastal and precision navigation, port entrance and exit operations
and use of electronic navigation support.
Galileo Economics: The Road Ahead
Pascal
Campagne
The projected costs, anticipated benefits, and
possible cost recovery models for the Galileo system produce several
options for Public-Private Partnership investment. Matching the
risks, investors and financing mechanisms turns into a complex exercise,
yielding different recommendations for each development phase: design,
building and operational.
RiGHt on the Water: River Level Monitoring
Using GPS Heighting
Terry
Moore, Gareth Close, Chris Lee, and Roger Moore
Adequate flood warning systems simply do not exist
in many areas of the world. A GPS-enabled buoy system provides a
cost-effective answer, and river trials show it can perform to centimetre-level
accuracy.
Understanding
Galileo
GalileoSat: ESA's
Proposal
Javier
Benedicto, Simon Dinwiddy, Giuliano Gatti, Rafael
Lucas, and Manfred Lugert
As Galileo's definition phase draws to a close,
the European Space Agency has proposed the technical characteristics
of the new navigation system. The Galileo Project Team has established
the system's feasibility, and several necessary new technologies
are in development.
A Short Biography
of Galileo Galilei
From the Editor Party On?
Editorial Advisory Council
Update
Inside
the Community
Industry
Dossier
What's Out
There
Calendar
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