FURLONG: How to Test Future Location Based Services

T. Moore, C. J. Hill, C. J. Noakes, C. D. Hide, R. Saull, G. Close and R. V. Moore

Abstract:	The Future Real-time Location and Navigation study, FURLONG, was a study concerned with simulating the signals of future satellite positioning systems (the proposed European Galileo system and the Modernised GPS) in order to assess the precision and reliability of future real time positioning service. The work was undertaken by three UK organisations that are at the forefront of this application domain; namely SciSys Space and Defence Ltd, The Institute for Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG) at the University of Nottingham and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The study was funded by the British National Space Centre under the s@tcom programme. FURLONG was targeted at demonstrating that future navigation and communications systems can be integrated successfully to provide high precision and reliable location-based services and to determine the parameters which must be met for successful operation. This was achieved through a series of sophisticated linked simulations. These covered the current and future GNSS signals, current and future communications systems, and in both cases the use of complex and detailed environmental models to realistically model signal obscuration, mulitipath and degradation. The result is a toolbox of simulation and analysis tools to emulate the performance of any proposed future real-time positioning service. FURLONG has thus provided a key foundation on which industry can build and test future Location Based Services. The FURLONG study was completed in March 2004. This paper reports on the development of the simulators and presents a summary of the findings from a series of sample scenarios used to demonstrate the utility of the simulators.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2004) September 21 - 24, 2004 Long Beach Convention Center Long Beach, CA
Pages:	2427 - 2435
Cite this article:	Moore, T., Hill, C. J., Noakes, C. J., Hide, C. D., Saull, R., Close, G., Moore, R. V., "FURLONG: How to Test Future Location Based Services," Proceedings of the 17th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2004), Long Beach, CA, September 2004, pp. 2427-2435.
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