Galileo™

The construction of Galileo™, the European satellite navigation system that is scheduled to enter into service at the end of 2010, will open the door for new applications and business models in the geoinformation industry.

GEOkomm networks members can contribute profound know how and longstanding experience in the GNSS sector to the development, testing and marketing of new ideas and services.

• The National Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam employs GNSS positioning, amongst other things, to compute the latest state parameters of the Earth. Together with international partners, it operates a worldwide network of permanent GNSS stations, which are also used to determine each satellite's exact orbit, to master global challenges where absolute precision is paramount.
• The potential benefits of high-precision positioning systems in agriculture are investigated and tested at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) in Müncheberg. Its study spheres cover everything from personal systems for area control or soil sampling to complex, dynamic machinery systems ("precision farming").
• Over a decade ago, EURONIK GmbH began distributing GNSS system solutions for surveying, geodata acquisition and precision positioning. Software solutions developed in-house enable GNSS data to be supplied and monitored in realtime and even support realtime networking of GNSS reference stations.
• When it comes to developing and testing new ideas and applications, the University of Applied Sciences (TFH) in Wildau supports the network with a wealth of know-how and experience. As a cooperation partner of Galileo Industries *, TFH Wildau will be a stakeholder in future Galileo development projects.