Looking for an image of a European citizen using their sat nav-enabled Smartphone to navigate through a city for a presentation? Need a high resolution photo of an aircraft taking advantage of an EGNOS-based landing procedure for your publication or website?
With the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA) new Image Gallery, you now have a one-stop-shop for all your European GNSS application image needs.
SatNav in Action: The GNSS Image Gallery was specifically built to illustrate the many everyday uses and benefits that European GNSS programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, provide. Images show GNSS in action across such market segments as aviation, road transport, location based services, agriculture, mapping, surveying, maritime, rail – and more.
Images can be browsed using a simple keyword-based search function.
All images in the gallery are available for download free of charge. Images can be used for commercial purposes so long as the GSA is credited (© GSA) and use is in compliance with the stated Terms and Conditions.
Be sure to check back often as we will be regularly updating the Image Gallery with exciting new images of European GNSS in action!
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Looking for an image of a European citizen using their sat nav-enabled Smartphone to navigate through a city for a presentation? Need a high resolution photo of an aircraft taking advantage of an EGNOS-based landing procedure for your publication or website?
With the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA) new Image Gallery, you now have a one-stop-shop for all your European GNSS application image needs.
SatNav in Action: The GNSS Image Gallery was specifically built to illustrate the many everyday uses and benefits that European GNSS programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, provide. Images show GNSS in action across such market segments as aviation, road transport, location based services, agriculture, mapping, surveying, maritime, rail – and more.
Images can be browsed using a simple keyword-based search function.
All images in the gallery are available for download free of charge. Images can be used for commercial purposes so long as the GSA is credited (© GSA) and use is in compliance with the stated Terms and Conditions.
Be sure to check back often as we will be regularly updating the Image Gallery with exciting new images of European GNSS in action!
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
After a year in orbit, the three Swarm satellites have provided a first glimpse inside Earth and started to shed new light on the dynamics of the upper atmosphere – all the way from the ionosphere about 100 km above, through to the outer reaches of our protective magnetic shield.
Únorový let kosmoplánu ESA IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle) nabídl cenné informace týkající se vývoje budoucích návratových zařízení.
On 23 June, a Vega launcher will loft the first of ESA's dual Sentinel-2 satellites into orbit from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou. For the mission control team, liftoff will mark the end of many months of careful preparations and the start of the mission's first critical phase.
Do startu zbývá méně než týden. Nová družice systému monitorování životního prostřední GMES/Copernicus Sentinel-2A byla nyní umístěna na vrcholek startovací věže evropského kosmodromu Kourou (stát Francouzská Guayana).
Včera jsme prezentovali náš projekt CleverAnalytics na Fóru Investorů, které pořádal CzechInvest ve spolupráci s Asociací malých a středních podniků, Deloitte Advisory, Node5 a JIC. V rámci předkol byly vybrány nejzajímavější firmy, které prošly programem CzechEkoSystem a ty měly možnost prezentovat svůj “pitch” před investory a hodnotitelskou komisí. Naše prezentace vyvolala zajímavý ohlas a nakonec byla vyhodnocena jako 3. nejlepší. Děkujeme CzechInvestu a JICu za podporu našeho rozvoje.
Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) ve spolupráci s International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) a Minor Planet Center (MPC) organizují soutěž nazvanou „Find An Asteroid 2015“, která se bude konat od 13. srpna do 17. září 2015. Termín pro přihlášení týmů je 21. červen 2015.
Exoplanety, fyzika plazmy a vesmír v rentgenovém spektru: to jsou oblasti, které ESA vybrala pro čtvrtou misi střední velikosti a které je zvažováno pro program Cosmic Vision. S jejím startem se počítá v roce 2025.
Tým CleverMaps si díky podpoře hl. města Prahy v rámci inovačních voucherů „Výzva 2014“ vyzkouší spolupráci s kolegy ze Sociologického ústavu Akademie věd ČR. Společným cílem je tvorba metodiky pro mapování cenové citlivosti obyvatel a následné vytvoření mapy tohoto jevu pro celou Českou republiku.
Od výsledků
spolupráce si CleverMaps slibuje lepší porozumění nákupního
chování obyvatel a zejména jevů, které jej ovlivňují. Díky
mapě cenové citlivosti tak CleverMaps přinese svým zákazníkům
lepší znalost tržního prostředí a kvalitnější podklady pro
jejich rozhodování. Jsme rádi, že Praha původně zrušené
inovační vouchery nakonec přece jen podpořila. Možnost
spolupracovat s vědeckou sférou z AV ČR je pro nás velkou výzvou.
Participants at the ASECAP conference in Lisbon explored the role of road charging within a greener, more sustainable and safer road transport system. They also heard good news from the GSA about how GNSS-based schemes, utilizing Galileo and EGNOS, can help.
The GSA believes GNSS receivers, now standard equipment in cars and other vehicles, can deliver new and better services for road mobility – from energy-saving route guidance to ensuring the security of hazardous materials and enabling cheaper, fairer and more flexible electronic toll charging.
Speaking at ASECAP, the GSA’s Alberto Fernandez Wyttenbach told participants that GNSS technologies allow operators to easily and quickly modify which road segments are covered, thus increasing the volume and efficiency of freight transport and virtually instantaneously enlarging charging schemes when and if required. In Germany TollCollect now operates the largest on-board vehicle units (OBUs) fleet,” he said. “They understand the importance of innovation and thus the next OBU generation will be Galileo-enabled.”
Also read: Slovak Republic Embraces European GNSS
Wyttenbach says that this is good news for Galileo, for businesses that rely on road transport and for the driving public. “The fact is that with multi-constellation GNSS, we don’t realise whether we are using Galileo satellites or GPS satellites,” he said. “Full interoperability means the more satellites the better. Drivers and toll operators who can use both systems will benefit in terms of better accuracy, reliability and robustness, including in difficult situations such as in urban canyons.”
Following the Singapore case, Wyttenbach also noted a number of European cities now evaluating GNSS-based solutions for urban congestion charging, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Budapest.
GNSS-based road charging entails lower costs for operators, so they can in turn charge less, get more traffic onto their toll roads and/or increase revenues to put towards new road projects.
For the GSA’s Fiametta Diani, interoperability among the various European road-charging schemes will be a key to success. Current systems encompass a wide array of often incompatible technologies, from manual toll collection and conventional plaza arrangements to all-electronic toll collection, multi-lane free-flow with DSRC-based vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, roadside gantry-based systems with cameras that take pictures of license plates, and many others.
Diani reported on the progress being made by the ASECAP-GSA Task Force, which is addressing, among other things, the question of interoperability. “We are not there yet, but a new generation of OBUs is coming that can combine functions, allowing us to foresee a day when cross-EU lorries won’t need two, three or six different units stacked up on their dashboards,” she said.
Also Read: EGNOS for Road Market Report 2015
The GSA is also working to help the increasing the number of countries and regions that are just now entering the road-tolling arena. These parties, essentially starting from scratch, have no ‘legacy’ systems to replace, so they can chose the kind of tolling system that makes sense today.
The GSA says it makes sense for everyone to choose the same technology, thus arriving at an interoperable European standard that allows drivers to seamlessly switch from one road-pricing scheme to another as easily as they now ‘roam’ across EU borders on mobile phone networks.
The GSA is also working with established operators, for whom adopting a GNSS-based approach is not a question of simply ‘switching over’, but instead means deconstructing existing and deeply rooted systems – many of which have been built up progressively over years and decades.
ASECAP, the Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroute et d’Ouvrages à Péages, includes 16 member countries and five associate member countries, with concessionaires overseeing more than 48,000 km of tolled roads and earning almost €28 million in total revenues per year. ASECAP road operators share a long-term vision for ever-increasing safety and efficiency and the highest possible quality of service for all road users.
The GSA is working closely with ASECAP, specifically under the ASECAP-GSA Task Force and the Regional EETS project, to understand how GNSS technology can bring added value to road infrastructure operators. For the GSA, as well as for a growing community of road transport stakeholders, European satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and EGNOS represent powerful new tools in the drive to meet global economic and social challenges, including the demand for mobility.
Watch This: EGNOS for Road
Even with increasing road traffic causing traffic congestion, accidents and pollution, there is also good news coming from the road sector. For instance, the sector remains one of the largest and most dynamic markets, representing a major business opportunity for GNSS technology applications.
Road charging is one area where Galileo and EGNOS can make a real difference, ensuring fair, flexible and equitable schemes for road project financing, reducing congestion and pollution, and saving lives.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Participants at the ASECAP conference in Lisbon explored the role of road charging within a greener, more sustainable and safer road transport system. They also heard good news from the GSA about how GNSS-based schemes, utilizing Galileo and EGNOS, can help.
The GSA believes GNSS receivers, now standard equipment in cars and other vehicles, can deliver new and better services for road mobility – from energy-saving route guidance to ensuring the security of hazardous materials and enabling cheaper, fairer and more flexible electronic toll charging.
Speaking at ASECAP, the GSA’s Alberto Fernandez Wyttenbach told participants that GNSS technologies allow operators to easily and quickly modify which road segments are covered, thus increasing the volume and efficiency of freight transport and virtually instantaneously enlarging charging schemes when and if required. In Germany TollCollect now operates the largest on-board vehicle units (OBUs) fleet,” he said. “They understand the importance of innovation and thus the next OBU generation will be Galileo-enabled.”
Also read: Slovak Republic Embraces European GNSS
Wyttenbach says that this is good news for Galileo, for businesses that rely on road transport and for the driving public. “The fact is that with multi-constellation GNSS, we don’t realise whether we are using Galileo satellites or GPS satellites,” he said. “Full interoperability means the more satellites the better. Drivers and toll operators who can use both systems will benefit in terms of better accuracy, reliability and robustness, including in difficult situations such as in urban canyons.”
Following the Singapore case, Wyttenbach also noted a number of European cities now evaluating GNSS-based solutions for urban congestion charging, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Budapest.
GNSS-based road charging entails lower costs for operators, so they can in turn charge less, get more traffic onto their toll roads and/or increase revenues to put towards new road projects.
For the GSA’s Fiametta Diani, interoperability among the various European road-charging schemes will be a key to success. Current systems encompass a wide array of often incompatible technologies, from manual toll collection and conventional plaza arrangements to all-electronic toll collection, multi-lane free-flow with DSRC-based vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, roadside gantry-based systems with cameras that take pictures of license plates, and many others.
Diani reported on the progress being made by the ASECAP-GSA Task Force, which is addressing, among other things, the question of interoperability. “We are not there yet, but a new generation of OBUs is coming that can combine functions, allowing us to foresee a day when cross-EU lorries won’t need two, three or six different units stacked up on their dashboards,” she said.
Also Read: EGNOS for Road Market Report 2015
The GSA is also working to help the increasing the number of countries and regions that are just now entering the road-tolling arena. These parties, essentially starting from scratch, have no ‘legacy’ systems to replace, so they can chose the kind of tolling system that makes sense today.
The GSA says it makes sense for everyone to choose the same technology, thus arriving at an interoperable European standard that allows drivers to seamlessly switch from one road-pricing scheme to another as easily as they now ‘roam’ across EU borders on mobile phone networks.
The GSA is also working with established operators, for whom adopting a GNSS-based approach is not a question of simply ‘switching over’, but instead means deconstructing existing and deeply rooted systems – many of which have been built up progressively over years and decades.
ASECAP, the Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroute et d’Ouvrages à Péages, includes 16 member countries and five associate member countries, with concessionaires overseeing more than 48,000 km of tolled roads and earning almost €28 million in total revenues per year. ASECAP road operators share a long-term vision for ever-increasing safety and efficiency and the highest possible quality of service for all road users.
The GSA is working closely with ASECAP, specifically under the ASECAP-GSA Task Force and the Regional EETS project, to understand how GNSS technology can bring added value to road infrastructure operators. For the GSA, as well as for a growing community of road transport stakeholders, European satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and EGNOS represent powerful new tools in the drive to meet global economic and social challenges, including the demand for mobility.
Watch This: EGNOS for Road
Even with increasing road traffic causing traffic congestion, accidents and pollution, there is also good news coming from the road sector. For instance, the sector remains one of the largest and most dynamic markets, representing a major business opportunity for GNSS technology applications.
Road charging is one area where Galileo and EGNOS can make a real difference, ensuring fair, flexible and equitable schemes for road project financing, reducing congestion and pollution, and saving lives.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Participants at the ASECAP conference in Lisbon explored the role of road charging within a greener, more sustainable and safer road transport system. They also heard good news from the GSA about how GNSS-based schemes, utilizing Galileo and EGNOS, can help.
The GSA believes GNSS receivers, now standard equipment in cars and other vehicles, can deliver new and better services for road mobility – from energy-saving route guidance to ensuring the security of hazardous materials and enabling cheaper, fairer and more flexible electronic toll charging.
Speaking at ASECAP, the GSA’s Alberto Fernandez Wyttenbach told participants that GNSS technologies allow operators to easily and quickly modify which road segments are covered, thus increasing the volume and efficiency of freight transport and virtually instantaneously enlarging charging schemes when and if required. In Germany TollCollect now operates the largest on-board vehicle units (OBUs) fleet,” he said. “They understand the importance of innovation and thus the next OBU generation will be Galileo-enabled.”
Also read: Slovak Republic Embraces European GNSS
Wyttenbach says that this is good news for Galileo, for businesses that rely on road transport and for the driving public. “The fact is that with multi-constellation GNSS, we don’t realise whether we are using Galileo satellites or GPS satellites,” he said. “Full interoperability means the more satellites the better. Drivers and toll operators who can use both systems will benefit in terms of better accuracy, reliability and robustness, including in difficult situations such as in urban canyons.”
Following the Singapore case, Wyttenbach also noted a number of European cities now evaluating GNSS-based solutions for urban congestion charging, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Budapest.
GNSS-based road charging entails lower costs for operators, so they can in turn charge less, get more traffic onto their toll roads and/or increase revenues to put towards new road projects.
For the GSA’s Fiametta Diani, interoperability among the various European road-charging schemes will be a key to success. Current systems encompass a wide array of often incompatible technologies, from manual toll collection and conventional plaza arrangements to all-electronic toll collection, multi-lane free-flow with DSRC-based vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, roadside gantry-based systems with cameras that take pictures of license plates, and many others.
Diani reported on the progress being made by the ASECAP-GSA Task Force, which is addressing, among other things, the question of interoperability. “We are not there yet, but a new generation of OBUs is coming that can combine functions, allowing us to foresee a day when cross-EU lorries won’t need two, three or six different units stacked up on their dashboards,” she said.
Also Read: EGNOS for Road Market Report 2015
The GSA is also working to help the increasing the number of countries and regions that are just now entering the road-tolling arena. These parties, essentially starting from scratch, have no ‘legacy’ systems to replace, so they can chose the kind of tolling system that makes sense today.
The GSA says it makes sense for everyone to choose the same technology, thus arriving at an interoperable European standard that allows drivers to seamlessly switch from one road-pricing scheme to another as easily as they now ‘roam’ across EU borders on mobile phone networks.
The GSA is also working with established operators, for whom adopting a GNSS-based approach is not a question of simply ‘switching over’, but instead means deconstructing existing and deeply rooted systems – many of which have been built up progressively over years and decades.
ASECAP, the Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroute et d’Ouvrages à Péages, includes 16 member countries and five associate member countries, with concessionaires overseeing more than 48,000 km of tolled roads and earning almost €28 million in total revenues per year. ASECAP road operators share a long-term vision for ever-increasing safety and efficiency and the highest possible quality of service for all road users.
The GSA is working closely with ASECAP, specifically under the ASECAP-GSA Task Force and the Regional EETS project, to understand how GNSS technology can bring added value to road infrastructure operators. For the GSA, as well as for a growing community of road transport stakeholders, European satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and EGNOS represent powerful new tools in the drive to meet global economic and social challenges, including the demand for mobility.
Watch This: EGNOS for Road
Even with increasing road traffic causing traffic congestion, accidents and pollution, there is also good news coming from the road sector. For instance, the sector remains one of the largest and most dynamic markets, representing a major business opportunity for GNSS technology applications.
Road charging is one area where Galileo and EGNOS can make a real difference, ensuring fair, flexible and equitable schemes for road project financing, reducing congestion and pollution, and saving lives.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Participants at the ASECAP conference in Lisbon explored the role of road charging within a greener, more sustainable and safer road transport system. They also heard good news from the GSA about how GNSS-based schemes, utilizing Galileo and EGNOS, can help.
The GSA believes GNSS receivers, now standard equipment in cars and other vehicles, can deliver new and better services for road mobility – from energy-saving route guidance to ensuring the security of hazardous materials and enabling cheaper, fairer and more flexible electronic toll charging.
Speaking at ASECAP, the GSA’s Alberto Fernandez Wyttenbach told participants that GNSS technologies allow operators to easily and quickly modify which road segments are covered, thus increasing the volume and efficiency of freight transport and virtually instantaneously enlarging charging schemes when and if required. In Germany TollCollect now operates the largest on-board vehicle units (OBUs) fleet,” he said. “They understand the importance of innovation and thus the next OBU generation s will be Galileo-enabled.”
Also read: Slovak Republic Embraces European GNSS
Wyttenbach says that this is good news for Galileo, for businesses that rely on road transport and for the driving public. “The fact is that with multi-constellation GNSS, we don’t realise whether we are using Galileo satellites or GPS satellites,” he said. “Full interoperability means the more satellites the better. Drivers and toll operators who can use both systems will benefit in terms of better accuracy, reliability and robustness, including in difficult situations such as in urban canyons.”
Following the Singapore case, Wyttenbach also noted a number of European cities now evaluating GNSS-based solutions for urban congestion charging, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Budapest.
GNSS-based road charging entails lower costs for operators, so they can in turn charge less, get more traffic onto their toll roads and/or increase revenues to put towards new road projects.
For the GSA’s Fiametta Diani, interoperability among the various European road-charging schemes will be a key to success. Current systems encompass a wide array of often incompatible technologies, from manual toll collection and conventional plaza arrangements to all-electronic toll collection, multi-lane free-flow with DSRC-based vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, roadside gantry-based systems with cameras that take pictures of license plates, and many others.
Diani reported on the progress being made by the ASECAP-GSA Task Force, which is addressing, among other things, the question of interoperability. “We are not there yet, but a new generation of OBUs is coming that can combine functions, allowing us to foresee a day when cross-EU lorries won’t need two, three or six different units stacked up on their dashboards,” she said.
Also Read: EGNOS for Road Market Report 2015
The GSA is also working to help the increasing the number of countries and regions that are just now entering the road-tolling arena. These parties, essentially starting from scratch, have no ‘legacy’ systems to replace, so they can chose the kind of tolling system that makes sense today.
The GSA says it makes sense for everyone to choose the same technology, thus arriving at an interoperable European standard that allows drivers to seamlessly switch from one road-pricing scheme to another as easily as they now ‘roam’ across EU borders on mobile phone networks.
The GSA is also working with established operators, for whom adopting a GNSS-based approach is not a question of simply ‘switching over’, but instead means deconstructing existing and deeply rooted systems – many of which have been built up progressively over years and decades.
ASECAP, the Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroute et d’Ouvrages à Péages, includes 16 member countries and five associate member countries, with concessionaires overseeing more than 48,000 km of tolled roads and earning almost €28 million in total revenues per year. ASECAP road operators share a long-term vision for ever-increasing safety and efficiency and the highest possible quality of service for all road users.
The GSA is working closely with ASECAP, specifically under the ASECAP-GSA Task Force and the Regional EETS project, to understand how GNSS technology can bring added value to road infrastructure operators. For the GSA, as well as for a growing community of road transport stakeholders, European satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and EGNOS represent powerful new tools in the drive to meet global economic and social challenges, including the demand for mobility.
Watch This: EGNOS for Road
Even with increasing road traffic causing traffic congestion, accidents and pollution, there is also good news coming from the road sector. For instance, the sector remainsone of the largest and most dynamic markets, representing a major business opportunity for GNSS technology applications.
Road charging is one area where Galileo and EGNOS can make a real difference, ensuring fair, flexible and equitable schemes for road project financing, reducing congestion and pollution, and saving lives.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Participants at the ASECAP conference in Lisbon explored the role of road charging within a greener, more sustainable and safer road transport system. They also heard good news from the GSA about how GNSS-based schemes, utilizing Galileo and EGNOS, can help.
The GSA believes GNSS receivers, now standard equipment in cars and other vehicles, can deliver new and better services for road mobility – from energy-saving route guidance to ensuring the security of hazardous materials and enabling cheaper, fairer and more flexible electronic toll charging.
Speaking at ASECAP, the GSA’s Alberto Fernandez Wyttenbach told participants that GNSS technologies allow operators to easily and quickly modify which road segments are covered, thus increasing the volume and efficiency of freight transport and virtually instantaneously enlarging charging schemes when and if required. In Germany TollCollect now operates the largest on-board vehicle units (OBUs) fleet,” he said. “They understand the importance of innovation and thus the next OBU generation s will be Galileo-enabled.”
Also read: Slovak Republic Embraces European GNSS
Wyttenbach says that this is good news for Galileo, for businesses that rely on road transport and for the driving public. “The fact is that with multi-constellation GNSS, we don’t realise whether we are using Galileo satellites or GPS satellites,” he said. “Full interoperability means the more satellites the better. Drivers and toll operators who can use both systems will benefit in terms of better accuracy, reliability and robustness, including in difficult situations such as in urban canyons.”
Following the Singapore case, Wyttenbach also noted a number of European cities now evaluating GNSS-based solutions for urban congestion charging, including Brussels, Copenhagen and Budapest.
GNSS-based road charging entails lower costs for operators, so they can in turn charge less, get more traffic onto their toll roads and/or increase revenues to put towards new road projects.
For the GSA’s Fiametta Diani, interoperability among the various European road-charging schemes will be a key to success. Current systems encompass a wide array of often incompatible technologies, from manual toll collection and conventional plaza arrangements to all-electronic toll collection, multi-lane free-flow with DSRC-based vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, roadside gantry-based systems with cameras that take pictures of license plates, and many others.
Diani reported on the progress being made by the ASECAP-GSA Task Force, which is addressing, among other things, the question of interoperability. “We are not there yet, but a new generation of OBUs is coming that can combine functions, allowing us to foresee a day when cross-EU lorries won’t need two, three or six different units stacked up on their dashboards,” she said.
Also Read: EGNOS for Road Market Report 2015
The GSA is also working to help the increasing the number of countries and regions that are just now entering the road-tolling arena. These parties, essentially starting from scratch, have no ‘legacy’ systems to replace, so they can chose the kind of tolling system that makes sense today.
The GSA says it makes sense for everyone to choose the same technology, thus arriving at an interoperable European standard that allows drivers to seamlessly switch from one road-pricing scheme to another as easily as they now ‘roam’ across EU borders on mobile phone networks.
The GSA is also working with established operators, for whom adopting a GNSS-based approach is not a question of simply ‘switching over’, but instead means deconstructing existing and deeply rooted systems – many of which have been built up progressively over years and decades.
ASECAP, the Association Européenne des Concessionnaires d’Autoroute et d’Ouvrages à Péages, includes 16 member countries and five associate member countries, with concessionaires overseeing more than 48,000 km of tolled roads and earning almost €28 million in total revenues per year. ASECAP road operators share a long-term vision for ever-increasing safety and efficiency and the highest possible quality of service for all road users.
The GSA is working closely with ASECAP, specifically under the ASECAP-GSA Task Force and the Regional EETS project, to understand how GNSS technology can bring added value to road infrastructure operators. For the GSA, as well as for a growing community of road transport stakeholders, European satellite navigation systems such as Galileo and EGNOS represent powerful new tools in the drive to meet global economic and social challenges, including the demand for mobility.
Watch This: EGNOS for Road
Even with increasing road traffic causing traffic congestion, accidents and pollution, there is also good news coming from the road sector. For instance, the sector remainsone of the largest and most dynamic markets, representing a major business opportunity for GNSS technology applications.
Road charging is one area where Galileo and EGNOS can make a real difference, ensuring fair, flexible and equitable schemes for road project financing, reducing congestion and pollution, and saving lives.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
Looking for an image of a European citizen using their sat nav-enabled Smartphone to navigate through a city for a presentation? Need a high resolution photo of an aircraft taking advantage of an EGNOS-based landing procedure for your publication or website?
With the European GNSS Agency’s (GSA) new Image Gallery, you now have a one-stop-shop for all your European GNSS application image needs.
SatNav in Action: The GNSS Image Gallery was specifically built to illustrate the many everyday uses and benefits that European GNSS programmes, Galileo and EGNOS, provide. Images show GNSS in action across such market segments as aviation, road transport, location based services, agriculture, mapping, surveying, maritime, rail – and more.
Images can be browsed using a simple keyword-based search function.
All images in the gallery are available for download free of charge. Images can be used for commercial purposes so long as the GSA is credited (© GSA) and use is in compliance with the stated Terms and Conditions.
Be sure to check back often as we will be regularly updating the Image Gallery with exciting new images of European GNSS in action!
Find your European GNSS images here.
Media note:This feature can be republished without charge provided the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is acknowledged as the source at the top or the bottom of the story. You must request permission before you use any of the photographs on the site. If you republish, we would be grateful if you could link back to the GSA website (http://www.gsa.europa.eu).
V magazínu Silniční síť byl publikován článek Jana Sirotka - Majetková příprava dopravních staveb, který pojednává i o naší aplikaci SyMAP. Celý článek nabízíme ke stažení a přečtení.
ESA and Australia’s CSIRO national research organisation have signed an agreement which will give Australia better access to information from Europe’s Earth-observing satellites, while ESA will benefit from Australia’s scientific expertise.