Experimentation Results of EGNOS combined with AIS for River Information Services in Vienna

Juan Carlos de Mateo, Marko Jandrisits and Günther Abwerzger

Abstract:	Within the ESA Advanced Research Telecommunications program ARTES-5, the project GALEWAT (Galileo and EGNOS for Waterway Transport) aims at introducing EGNOS into River Information Systems (RIS) through the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a link that is becoming a standard for the communications between vessels and with the shore. The GALEWAT project is carried out by a consortium composed by Via Donau (Austria), responsible for the overall project coordination and the operations in Vienna; Kongsberg Seatex AS (Norway), mainly responsible for the ship and shore equipment provision and installation; TeleConsult Austria (Austria), responsible for the geodetic reference system and performance evaluation of the tests, and INOV (Portugal), responsible for software development, i.e., performance monitor software and web interface for the external segment During the definition phase, the system architecture and user equipment have been defined, in line with standards and international recommendations. The activity is currently in its implementation phase. Three demo sites are targeted: Vienna (Austria), Lisbon (Portugal) and Constanta (Romania) in order to illustrate the system in different environments (river navigation, harbour approach, open sea). The objective of this paper is to present the results of the tests and demo trials that took place during the last quarter of 2004 in Vienna. The results are based on the EGNOS signals.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 2005 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation January 24 - 26, 2005 The Catamaran Resort Hotel San Diego, CA
Pages:	447 - 453
Cite this article:	de Mateo, Juan Carlos, Jandrisits, Marko, Abwerzger, Günther, "Experimentation Results of EGNOS combined with AIS for River Information Services in Vienna," Proceedings of the 2005 National Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, San Diego, CA, January 2005, pp. 447-453.
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