The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the French Space Agency (CNES) sign a partnership agreement to implement EGNOS service performance monitoring.

The GSA and the French Space Agency (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) recently signedUnder the agreement, a Member States EGNOS service performance monitoring network will be established. a Framework Partnership Agreement to implement EGNOS service performance monitoring. The agreement was confirmed at CNES Headquarters in Paris on 8 September.

Under the agreement, a Member States EGNOS service performance monitoring network will be established (SPMS). The network will enable Member States to support the GSA’s work on EGNOS – a key component to the development of European GNSS-based services. The SPMS network ensures access to a wide range of expertise and competence in GNSS by pulling from the existing capacities found in the Member States.

“This is the first time we leverage the competence of the European Member States through a co-financing tool specifically provided for by EU Regulation,” says GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides. “This will be a powerful tool for the EGNOS programme.”

To form the building blocks of the SPMS network, CNES will act as the SPMS coordinator and will work with a range of relevant  institutions across Europe, including:

  • INRIM (Italy) Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
  • Lantmäteriet (Sweden): Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority
  • NMA (Norway): Norwegian Mapping Authority (Kartverket)
  • PECNY (Czech Republic): Geodetic Observatory Pecny from the Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography
  • ROB (Belgium): Royal Observatory of Belgium
  • SRC-PAS (Poland): Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Science
  • SYRTE (France): Time/space reference systems laboratory of Observatoire de Paris

CNES, a pioneer in satellite navigation and one of the initial contributors to the establishment of an SBAS system in Europe, will lead the consortium of expertise from across Europe.

All SPMS network organisations possess and/or operate assets that will contribute to the EGNOS service performance monitoring activities. Specifically, the agreement focuses on such activities as:

  • Monitoring of SBAS Service and Signal Performance
  • Ad-hoc investigation of EGNOS abnormal events
  • Technical support to EGNOS programme working groups

The GSA, CNES and its partners share a common objective in supporting the European GNSS programmes to their success and achievements. 

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