Posted on: June 23, 2015
The objective of MAGNIFIC is the promotion of an African EGNOS and of the Galileo Early services with EGNSS awareness.
The market sectors of MAGNIFIC covers strategic domains including the export of EGNOS for Africa and key priority applications identified in the GSA Action plan on GNSS applications: road, aviation, maritime, precision agriculture/environment protection, civil protection and surveillance, and LBS.
In particular, MAGNIFIC proposes to demonstrate to African Stakeholders the benefits of EGNOS and Galileo by means of 6 field trials in Africa and a EGNSS international conference:
- Airport surface vehicle using EGNOS integrity and interference monitoring (Dakar, Maputo)
- Oil exploitation with innovative EGNSS algorithms to mitigate scintillation (Angola)
- Highly secured multi-modal transport using EGNSS tracking and Galileo SAR (Cameroun, Tchad)
- Flight using SBAS procedures with real EGNOS corrections for Africa (Dakar, Lome)
- Natural resources analysis with accurate vertical positioning (EGNSS PPP in Togo)
- Secured Maritime transport using new generation wide spectrum GALILEO SAR signal (Gabon).
For more information: http://www.magnific-gsa-project.eu/