The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has opened a call for proposals within its Fundamental Elements funding mechanism, targeting the implementation of OS-NMA and/or I/NAV features in close-to-market receivers and/or GNSS user terminals. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2019.
This Call for Proposals aims to implement OS-NMA and/or I/NAV improvements capability in close-to-market (i.e. min TRL 7) receivers and/or GNSS user terminals suitable for target application domains other than the Smart Tachograph.
The applicants are requested to propose a solution to reach this objective in such a way that:
For more details, please see the call documentation package.
As part of its service portfolio, Galileo plans to provide a navigation message authentication feature over its Open Service (OS). From the Galileo standpoint, Navigation Message Authentication (NMA) is defined as the ability of the system to guarantee to users that they are utilising navigation data from the Galileo satellites and not from any other, potentially malicious, source.
In addition, with the same objective of enhancing the Galileo services portfolio, three new features will soon be provided free of charge to all Open Service users. These features will be gradually implemented from 2020 and will be openly accessible through the I/NAV message carried by the E1-B signal.
The OS-NMA feature is considered an important asset for the Galileo programme, being a strong technical differentiator with respect to the other GNSS. This capability will allow Galileo user terminals to assess the authenticity of the data provided through the Signal in Space transmitted by Galileo satellites against attempts to spoof it. It will also help improve the overall robustness of GNSS for various applications, particularly those for which security and trustworthiness are a priority. Furthermore, the OS-NMA will also offer a certain level of anti-replay capability. This capability will strictly depend on the measures implemented by the actual receiver and therefore cannot be considered a Galileo service.
The three new features, whilst ensuring full backward compatibility with existing Galileo receivers, will further improve the robustness of Galileo OS when retrieving the navigation data, particularly in challenging environments, and will enhance the Galileo OS capability to resolve users’ clock uncertainty. In this respect, a key performance metric (especially when GNSS operates in unassisted mode) is the time to receive Clock and Ephemeris Data (CED). Two of the newly introduced features contribute in different ways to improving the Time-To-CED, and therefore the overall Time to First Fix (TTFF).
On 9 October 2019 at 15:00, a webinar on the Fundamental Elements Call “Enhanced GNSS Receiver/User Terminal” will be held to provide applicants with information on how to prepare a proposal. To connect to the webinar click here.
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Zpracování geodat v desktopové aplikaci QGIS, jejich uložení a sdílení v prostředí geodatabáze PostGIS a následná publikace pomocí mapového serveru GeoServer – to všechno se můžete naučit během podzima na veřejných kurzech GISMentors, které už pátým rokem pořádá firma OpenGeoLabs. Pro uživatele zabývající se pokročilejší analýzou dat je připraven kurz GRASS GIS a těm, kteří […]
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Družice Sentinel-6A systému Copernicus je určená k měření globální hladiny moří. Nyní byla vybavena částí svého přístrojového vybavení a je připravena k testování, po němž by měl před koncem příštího roku následovat start do vesmíru.
Družice Sentinel-6A systému Copernicus je určená k měření globální hladiny moří. Nyní byla vybavena částí svého přístrojového vybavení a je připravena k testování, po němž by měl před koncem příštího roku následovat start do vesmíru.
Today, Hexagon’s Safety & Infrastructure division announced the availability of the HxGN OnCall portfolio of public safety solutions as a managed service offering deployed on Microsoft Azure. The new offering brings next-generation public safety technologies to agencies of all sizes by lowering the total cost of ownership and enabling faster deployments with reduced resources and capital expenditure.
Deployable on-premises or in the cloud, HxGN OnCall is a comprehensive, cohesive portfolio of public safety solutions. Its capabilities span dispatch, records, analytics and more. The portfolio leverages data and analytics, enabling public safety agencies to enhance operational awareness, increase efficiency and optimize resources. By deploying HxGN OnCall on Azure, agencies of all sizes can take advantage of enterprise-level capabilities with system enhancements and features that remain continually up-to-date.
“Today, public safety agencies must adapt their systems to keep up with rapidly changing demands, and accelerating IT cycles are making it increasingly expensive to maintain current environments, particularly for smaller agencies,” said Kalyn Sims, CTO of Hexagon’s Safety & Infrastructure division. “This combination drains IT department resources, holding agencies back from implementing the new technologies they need and that the public expects. The new managed service option, available on Microsoft Azure, allows agencies of all sizes to cost-effectively keep up with the ever-changing requirements in the dynamic public safety environment.”
Stuart McKee, National Technology Officer, Microsoft Corp., said, “As public safety agencies are facing new challenges and limited resources, they are moving critical services to the cloud. Agencies need technologies and partners they can trust to help them adapt and move forward. Hexagon and Microsoft provide the expertise, security and experience agencies need to transition to the cloud effectively and efficiently.”
The new managed service offering is available for HxGN OnCall Dispatch, HxGN OnCall Analytics and HxGN OnCall Records. These solutions include a robust feature set and an exceptional user experience informed by nearly three decades of experience and hundreds of scientific research studies with call-takers and dispatchers from around the world.
To learn more about the new managed service offering for HxGN OnCall, visit www.hexagonsafetyinfrastructure.com/managedservice.
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BIM Today, UK
Read the articleIn September 2019, public authorities will have the opportunity to attend and participate in several informative webinars on Pre-Commercial Procurement and learn about the available funding opportunities on this topic.
In September 2019 public authorities and research institutions will have the opportunity to attend and participate in a number of informative webinars on PCP: Pre-Commercial Procurement. Pre-Commercial Procurement is the new innovative procurement tool for Galileo applications R&D tailored to public authorities.
Participants in these webinars will have the opportunity to:
The specific webinars are as follows:
You can also find information on workshops held earlier this year on ‘EGNSS Innovation procurement opportunities within Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe’ here and 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).
In September 2019, public authorities will have the opportunity to attend and participate in several informative webinars on Pre-Commercial Procurement and learn about the available funding opportunities on this topic.
In September 2019 public authorities and research institutions will have the opportunity to attend and participate in a number of informative webinars on PCP: Pre-Commercial Procurement. Pre-Commercial Procurement is the new innovative procurement tool for Galileo applications R&D tailored to public authorities.
Participants in these webinars will have the opportunity to:
The specific webinars are as follows:
You can also find information on workshops held earlier this year on ‘EGNSS Innovation procurement opportunities within Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe’ here and 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).
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ReliabilityWeb, USA
Read the articleOver 700 Earth observation satellites are orbiting our planet, transmitting hundreds of terabytes of data to downlink stations every day. Processing and extracting useful information is a huge data challenge, with volumes rising quasi-exponentially.
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has opened a call for proposals within its Fundamental Elements funding mechanism, targeting the implementation of OS-NMA and/or I/NAV features in close-to-market receivers and/or GNSS user terminals. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2019.
This Call for Proposals aims to implement OS-NMA and/or I/NAV improvements capability in close-to-market (i.e. min TRL 7) receivers and/or GNSS user terminals suitable for target application domains other than the Smart Tachograph.
The applicants are requested to propose a solution to reach this objective in such a way that:
For more details, please see the call documentation package.
As part of its service portfolio, Galileo plans to provide a navigation message authentication feature over its Open Service (OS). From the Galileo standpoint, Navigation Message Authentication (NMA) is defined as the ability of the system to guarantee to users that they are utilising navigation data from the Galileo satellites and not from any other, potentially malicious, source.
In addition, with the same objective of enhancing the Galileo services portfolio, three new features will soon be provided free of charge to all Open Service users. These features will be gradually implemented from 2020 and will be openly accessible through the I/NAV message carried by the E1-B signal.
The OS-NMA feature is considered an important asset for the Galileo programme, being a strong technical differentiator with respect to the other GNSS. This capability will allow Galileo user terminals to assess the authenticity of the data provided through the Signal in Space transmitted by Galileo satellites against attempts to spoof it. It will also help improve the overall robustness of GNSS for various applications, particularly those for which security and trustworthiness are a priority. Furthermore, the OS-NMA will also offer a certain level of anti-replay capability. This capability will strictly depend on the measures implemented by the actual receiver and therefore cannot be considered a Galileo service.
The three new features, whilst ensuring full backward compatibility with existing Galileo receivers, will further improve the robustness of Galileo OS when retrieving the navigation data, particularly in challenging environments, and will enhance the Galileo OS capability to resolve users’ clock uncertainty. In this respect, a key performance metric (especially when GNSS operates in unassisted mode) is the time to receive Clock and Ephemeris Data (CED). Two of the newly introduced features contribute in different ways to improving the Time-To-CED, and therefore the overall Time to First Fix (TTFF).
On 9 October 2019 at 15:00, a webinar on the Fundamental Elements Call “Enhanced GNSS Receiver/User Terminal” will be held to provide applicants with information on how to prepare a proposal. To connect to the webinar click 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).
První družice řady Spacebus Neo - Konnect, což je satelit pro předávání dat vysokou rychlostí objednaný organizací Eutelsat - úspěšně dokončila svoji mechanickou testovací kampaň v továrně firmy Thales Alenia Space v Cannes.
První družice řady Spacebus Neo - Konnect, což je satelit pro předávání dat vysokou rychlostí objednaný organizací Eutelsat - úspěšně dokončila svoji mechanickou testovací kampaň v továrně firmy Thales Alenia Space v Cannes.
Over the past few months, we have published a number of articles highlighting how GNSS is contributing to technological advancements in various transport sectors. Mobility Week is a good opportunity to look back at these and summarise how Galileo and EGNOS are enabling the intelligent transport applications that underpin the mobility solutions of the future.
Following the first Space for Innovation in Rail conference, held in Vienna back in March, we had a number of articles on the contribution of space to the modernisation of the rail sector. One of these featured leading Italian rail infrastructure manager Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), an early adopter of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) and a company that has been quick to appreciate the benefits of using satellite positioning in the rail sector.
GNSS and the ERTMS are perfect complementary assets that can together considerably reduce rail operational costs. However, with new technologies such as GNSS, obstacles still remain to ensuring interoperability and open standards, and these obstacles require solutions to be developed by all stakeholders involved. This is something that the ERSAT (ERTMS on Satellite) project, co-funded by the GSA, aims to address.
Watch this: EGNOS and Galileo for Rail
This project targets the integration of GNSS positioning and public telecommunications over the ERTMS platform and is making an effective roadmap to allow others to follow a step-wise operational deployment. The ERSAT project has field-tested and demonstrated the capability of satellite-based positioning embedded within the ERTMS ecosystem. This has caught the eye of many train operators in Europe and beyond.
Once such operator is French national rail company SNCF, which is taking the lead in adopting Galileo technology to boost customer services, in particular in its high-speed TGV network. The company is already embracing GNSS-based systems, especially for passenger information, and fleet and traffic management. “At the beginning of 2019, some 250 high-speed trains were already equipped with Galileo-ready receivers. This represents nearly 50% of SNCF’s TGV fleet. Some 320 trains are expected to be Galileo-ready by the end of 2019,” said Antoine Barre, head of train localisation projects at SNCF. SNCF aims to equip its entire train fleet with Galileo receivers to assist non-safety relevant train localisation, and also plans to further investigate the future contribution of European GNSS within the ERTMS.
And this: Driving with Galileo
The benefits of EGNSS stretch beyond the rail sector, however. New urban mobility schemes are rapidly evolving due to social, economic and technological changes and, against this backdrop, Galileo can deliver new accuracy and reliability for location-dependent services that get people where they need to go. This is supported by the omnipresence of smart mobile devices, which is allowing new business models to emerge based on the sharing of goods and services - the so-called sharing economy.
The Galileo 4 Mobility project is working to promote the introduction of Galileo technology within the MaaS context by analysing the geolocation needs of the different stakeholders involved and demonstrating the benefits of Galileo through pilot demonstrators of shared mobility services. GALILEO 4 MOBILITY encompasses a number of MaaS-oriented pilots, including a ride-sharing service in Thessaloniki, Greece.
It is not just land-based transport that is benefiting from space-based solutions. In aviation too, EGNSS is also helping make transport cleaner, safer and more accessible, EGNOS and Galileo contribute to landing, surveillance and Search and Rescue operations, and actions targeting every aviation user. These benefits of EGNOS were in focus at the AERO International General Aviation Fair at Friedrichshafen, Germany, back in May.
And this: EGNOS for Aviation
At the event, Julian Scarfe, deputy chairman of PPL/IR – Europe, the leading group for private pilots across Europe interested in instrument flying, spoke about easier access to instrument flight rules for general aviation through the use of EGNOS and localiser performance with vertical guidance (LPV). "Today we have EGNOS that can enable vertical approaches to non-instrument runways. The GSA is running a project to enable this. This will change the way we fly," he said.
Likewise, in an interview with GSA, AirBaltic’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations Pauls Cālītis spoke about how EGNOS is enabling the E-GEN project and the ’green flying’ concept, helping the airline to improve its efficiency and reduce its environmental footprint and the level of emissions and noise that it produces.
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Hlavním posláním Dne GIS je šíření povědomí o geografických informačních systémech. K této akci, která letos připadá na středu 13. listopadu 2019, se každoročně připojí na tisíce organizátorů a odborníci na GIS zde přibližují svoji práci žákům, studentům, kolegům, ale i široké veřejnosti.
Chcete uspořádat výstavu, workshop nebo přednášku? Inspiraci pro svou vlastní akci můžete najít na webových stránkách Dne GIS. Na oficiálních stránkách gisday.com pak naleznete nejen registrační formulář, ale také další zdroje, které vám mohou pomoci při sestavování programu.
Přihlašte se na 2. Šárišský hackathon a vyhrajte 3 000 EUR za nejlepší appku! Termín Piatok 4.10, Sobota 5.10., Nedeľa 6.10.2019 Miesta Registrácia účastníkov 2. ŠH: 4.10.2019, Evanjelické kolégium, Hlavná 137, Prešov, 12:00-14:00 Pracovný priestor: 4-5-6.10.2019, SPŠ Elektrotechnická, Plzenská 1, Prešov Vyhodnotenie: 6.10.2019, Evanjelické kolégium, Hlavná 137, Prešov, 13:00-15:00 Účastnícky poplatok Účasť na súťaži 2. Šarišský […]
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Doktorandka Geografického ústavu PřF MU Martina Sychrová získala cenu za 2. nejlepší poster na mezinárodní konferenci o ekologii a managementu rostlinných invazí EMAPi (15th Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant invasions).
Blahopřejeme.
Fotogalerie z předávání cen: https://emapi2019.org/gallery/awards/
Researchers all over the world have a wealth of satellite data at their fingertips to understand global change, but turning a multitude of different data into actual information can pose a challenge. Using examples of Arctic greening and drought, scientists at ESA’s ɸ-week showed how the Earth System Data Lab is making this task much easier.
dovolujeme si Vás informovat o stipendijních nabídkách na základě
mezinárodních smluv do tří německy mluvicích zemí. Přihlášky se mohou
podávat v německém nebo anglickém jazyce (s výjimkou letních jazykových
kurzů NJ, viz DAAD).
1.Německo - DAAD
<https://www.dzs.cz/cz/akademicka-informacni-agentura/stipendia/?type_id=5&country_id=29>
Německá akademická výměnná služba (DAAD) nabízí řadu stipendií pro různé
skupiny (pro studenty od 2. ročníku, studenty MSP, doktorandy, vědce až
po VŠ učitele). Ve výše uvedené tabulce naleznete odkaz na stránky DAAD,
kde je podrobný popis každé stipendijní nabídky. Rovněž tam naleznete
popis, jak podat přihlášku.
*Online-portál DAAD je již otevřený* pro přijímání Vašich žádostí.
U většiny studijních a výzkumných pobytů (delších a kratších) se žádosti
podávají do *15. 11. 2019*.
Žádosti o stipendia na letní kurzy němčiny se podávají do *1. 12*.
Tištěnou verzi žádosti posílejte, prosím, do sídla Akademické informační
agentury (AIA), Dům zahraniční spolupráce, Na Poříčí 1035/4, 110 00 Praha 1.
Výjimka:
Studenti MSP v oborech *architektura, umění, film, scénické umění a
hudba*, posílají svoje žádosti elektronicky přes portál DAAD a paralelně
v tištěné verzi včetně ukázek prací přímo do centrály DAAD v Bonnu.
Upozorňujeme na *dřívější deadline* pro tato stipendia: architektura
30.9.2019, hudba 15. 10. 2019, scénické umění 31. 10. 2019 a výtvarné
umění, design, vizuální komunikace a film 30. 11.2019.
2.Německo – Česko-bavorská vysokoškolská agentura
<https://www.dzs.cz/cz/akademicka-informacni-agentura/stipendia/?type_id=5&country_id=28>
Česko-bavorská vysokoškolská agentura (BTHA) nabízí roční studijní
pobyty pro studenty DSP a MSP. Žádosti o stipendium se přijímají
nejpozději do *1. 12. 2019.*
Stipendijní podmínky, informace o potřebných dokladech a doručující
adresy naleznete ve výše uvedené tabulce.
3.Švýcarsko – stipendia vlády Švýcarské konfederace
<https://www.dzs.cz/cz/akademicka-informacni-agentura/stipendia/?type_id=5&country_id=44>
a.Vláda Švýcarské konfederace nabízí České republice pro akademický rok
2020/2021 *dvě stipendijní místa pro studenty DSP a postdoktorandy/vědce*.
b.Vláda Švýcarské konfederace nabízí stipendia pro *studenty*
*konzervatoří a VŠ uměleckých* *směrů. *V této kategorii nemá Česká
republika daný počet stipendijních míst.
Zájemci, kteří splňují formální podmínky pro přidělení stipendia, obdrží
na základě své žádosti od Akademické informační agentury (AIA)
elektronickou cestou podklady pro podání žádosti v anglickém jazyce.
4.Rakousko – AKTION
<https://www.dzs.cz/cz/aktion-ceska-republika-rakousko/prehled-stipendii/>
a.Studenti MSP, DSP a akademičtí pracovníci se mohou ucházet o
semestrální stipendium (1-5 m) do 31. 10. 2019.
b.VŠ učitelé se mohou ucházet o 1-měsíční stipendijní výzkumný pobyt do
30. 11. 2019.
Aktualizované pokyny pro zpracování bakalářských a diplomových prací z geografie a kartografie jsou ke stažení na adrese https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/sci/jaro2019/Z6004/Pokyny_BPDP_v2019.pdf.
Od předchozí verze se tyto nové pokyny liší v následujících bodech: