Ensuring GNSS Services For Developing Countries: The Malaysian Case

Mustafa D. Subari and Kamaludin Omar, Mazlan Othman

Abstract:	Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), with GPS and GLONASS serving as the fundamental ingredient of the system, would very likely become the sole navigation means of the future. The impact will be global and the usage will be on a very large scale, covering low-accuracy low-risk navigation as in open sea route, to very-high accuracy very-high risk navigation as in landing system for airports. Several problems persist: an obvious one is that both GPS and GLONASS have been developed as military navigation systems controlled by autonomous nations, with no absolute guarantee of continuity of services and there are also unresolved issues of availability, integrity and reliability. End users, particularly in the developing countries want to ensure the availability, integrity and reliability of the system. The Malaysian plan to achieve this would be implemented in two aspects, namely monitoring and support of GNSS. Monitoring would be executed through the establishment of a RAIM network, while the support can be done through an augmentation service, possibly through the Malaysian-owned MEASAT geostationary satellite or independent DGPS services.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 10th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1997) September 16 - 19, 1997 Kansas City, MO
Pages:	1245 - 1250
Cite this article:	Subari, Mustafa D., Omar, Kamaludin, Othman, Mazlan, "Ensuring GNSS Services For Developing Countries: The Malaysian Case," Proceedings of the 10th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1997), Kansas City, MO, September 1997, pp. 1245-1250.
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