Access to the EGNOS signal in space over mobile-IP |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Ruizhi?ChenEmail author Felix?Toran-Marti Javier?Ventura-Traveset |
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| Institution: | (1) , Finnish Geodetic Institute, Geodeetinrinne 2, PL15, 02431, Masala, Finland,;(2) EGNOS Project Office, European Space Agency, Toulouse, France, |
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| Abstract: | The EGNOS service will provide better positioning availability and accuracy than that from the standalone GPS solutions. However,
in order to access the EGNOS service, the end user needs to access the corresponding GEO satellites that broadcast the augmentation
information for the region. This is not a problem normally for aviation and maritime applications because an open sky is always
available for such applications. However, an open sky is not always available for land applications because of the obstacles
in the vicinity of the end users, for example, in the city canyons. The situation gets worse for the regions at high latitudes
because the elevation angles to the GEO satellites are rather low (e.g. 4–22° in Finland). This article describes briefly
the SISNeT technology, designed and developed by the European Space Agency, which allows accessing the EGNOS SIS via the Internet.
It will describe in detail the handheld SISNeT receiver, designed and developed by the Finnish Geodetic Institute under ESA
contract. The SISNeT data server is an IP-based server that acquires the EGNOS messages from an EGNOS receiver, and broadcasts
them over the Internet in real-time. The handheld receiver consists of a GPS PC-card receiver, a GPRS (or GSM) card phone,
and a pocket PC as the host platform. The receiver software is a Windows CE-based package with a multi-process and multi-thread
architecture. It simultaneously receives: (1) the EGNOS SIS over a GPRS wireless connection and the Internet and (2) the NMEA
messages from a serial connection to a GPS receiver. It decompresses and decodes the EGNOS messages, and utilizes the information
in the messages to estimate the EGNOS-corrected coordinates, which are finally delivered to the end user via a virtual COM
port. The virtual COM port has been implemented as a stream interface driver in the Pocket PC. It can be accessed in the same
way as the physical COM port in a GPS receiver is accessed. Therefore, it is easy to interface to any third-party applications.
The test results show that the handheld SISNeT receiver can provide a positioning accuracy of about 1–2 m for the horizontal
components, and 2–3 m for the vertical component in real time. Due to the poor performance of the wireless connection, 10–30%
of the EGNOS messages can be lost depending on the services provided by the wireless network operators. The impact of the
messages lost on the positioning accuracy is about 0.5 m in both the horizontal and vertical components.
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