http://ctuot.twoday.net/ Semanticaly enabled Spatial Decision Support System ctuot ctuot 2008-05-07T06:08:07Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z http://static.twoday.net/icon.gif http://ctuot.twoday.net/ http://ctuot.twoday.net/stories/4912391/ On Monday April 29, 2008, the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development organized an <a href="http://www.bmvbs.de/galileo">event</a> to discuss applications relative to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_%28satellite_navigation%29">Galileo</a>, the European version of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps">GPS</a> (Global Positioning System).<br /> The date for this meeting has been pretty well chosen since the second Galileo Satellite <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIOVE">Giove B</a> has been successfully launched on Saturday April 27, 2008.<br /> The Galileo system will be productive at the end of 2013 with 27 Satellites over 3 orbits with one spare satellite per orbit. This should offer a very good coverage, better than what GPS is offering at the moment. Actually, no need to really compare GPS and Galileo, I personally do not want to see a competition here but more like a nice cooperation to offer better services.<br /> Besides the general presentations of the system, 4 workshops took place in the afternoon to discuss some domain specific application of Galileo. I took part to the Workshop about the agricultural domain leaded by <a href="http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/institute/lse/lse/mitarbeiter/werner/general.htm">Dr. Armin Werner</a>.<br /> <a href="http://www.bmvbs.de/galileo"><img title="Satellit (Quelle: ESA)" height="126" alt="Satellit (Quelle: ESA)" width="176" align="center" class="center" src="http://static.twoday.net/ctuot/images/Satellit-Galileo.jpg" /></a><br /> One very important conclusion of that workshop is that Galileo as positioning system only makes sense for the agricultural domain if the respective geographical material is made available for use, which is not really the case at the moment.<br /> From my experience, getting access to geographical material is always tricky and all rights are reserved, but we are working on that issue.<br /> Most of the presentations given during the event will be soon made available online. I will give the link in a future blog. ctuot <a href="http://ctuot.twoday.net/topics/Event">Event</a> Copyright © 2008 ctuot 2008-05-07T05:17:00Z Search this site: q http://ctuot.twoday.net/search