From Satellite to Silo: Precision Agriculture with EGNOS

Sally Basker and Javier Ventura-Traveset

Abstract:	EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, is the European satellite-based augmentation system, complementing similar developments in the US (WAAS), Canada (CWAAS), and Japan (MSAS). EGNOS will start operations in early 2004 [4,5]. In August 2001, a Claas combine harvester was fitted with an EGNOS receiver to assess its likely benefits for precision farming. The trial was run at St Ives near Cambridge in England in August 2001 using the EGNOS System Test Bed (ESTB) signal, an EGNOS pre- operational signal available since February 2000 [6]. This paper reports on the EGNOS precision farming trial. Section 1, Introduction and Motivation, gives some background to the importance of precision farming and the reasons for trialling EGNOS. A brief overview of the Method is described in Section 2. Section 3 presents the results of the analysis, and the paper is concluded in Section 4 by describing the benefits that EGNOS brings to precision farmers.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 15th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 2002) September 24 - 27, 2002 Oregon Convention Center Portland, OR
Pages:	1827 - 1829
Cite this article:	Basker, Sally, Ventura-Traveset, Javier, "From Satellite to Silo: Precision Agriculture with EGNOS," Proceedings of the 15th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 2002), Portland, OR, September 2002, pp. 1827-1829.
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