The successful launch of the first Galileo satellite, GIOVE-A, has opened a new era in Satellite Navigation. The European Galileo Project, which is now in its Development and Validation Phase, is managed on behalf of the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA), by the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU). Through their business development initiatives, one of the missions of the GJU is to develop future markets for Galileo and the European satellite based augmentation system, EGNOS. To facilitate this mission, the GJU Galileo Activities 2nd Call, funded through the EU’s 6th Framework Programme, directly addressed a large number of user communities. These include Location Based Services (LBS), Road, Rail, Maritime, Aviation, and a Special Sector. One of the specialised communities addressed within this Special Sector was our Land and Civil Engineering community. The GJU 2nd Call was launched in June 2004, with bids submitted in October 2004. After the bid evaluation and negotiations, the MONITOR Project Consortium was successful and was awarded the contract to address the Land and Civil Engineering Community. The partners within the MONITOR Project Consortium include universities, companies and organisations based in Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania and Greece, whose combined capabilities cover all aspects of high precision monitoring of land and engineering structural deformations, current satellite positioning techniques, engineering applications of GNSS and the potential benefits of the Galileo system. MONITOR is coordinated by the GEONETLAB , Centre of Excellence on Telegeomatics, of the University of Trieste, Italy, and is managed by Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, which is based in Rome. The academic partners of the Project include DISTART (Departments of Engineering Structure, Transport, Water, and Land Surveying) and Alma Mater Studiorum of the University of Bologna, Italy, and the Departments of Civil Engineering and Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristotiles University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Commercial and industrial expertise, covering marketing, technical, software, legal aspects and insurance matters, is provided by Edisoft SA, Elsacom SpA, Sogei SpA, ids SpA, Nottingham Scientific Ltd, Pagnanelli Risk Solutions Ltd, SC Optoelectronica-2001 SA, SEPA SpA, Sistematica SpA, and Value Partners SpA. Lastly, the user perspective is provided by two Italian local authorities, the Provincia di Bologna and the Regione Emilia-Romagna. This paper will describe the 18 months long MONITOR Project, which has officially kicked-off in November 2005. This Introduction will be followed by a broad description of the two European satellite navigation systems, Galileo and EGNOS, and a brief overview of the current practices in using GPS for monitoring purposes. The paper will be concluded with a discussion of the objectives of the MONITOR Project.
Ashkenazi V., Barbarella M., Manzoni M, Graglia G., Musmeci M., Roberts W. (2006). The MONITOR Project: Galileo for Land and civil engineering surveyors. CIVIL ENGINEERING SURVEYOR, May 2006, 16-19.
The MONITOR Project: Galileo for Land and civil engineering surveyors
BARBARELLA, MAURIZIO;
2006
Abstract
The successful launch of the first Galileo satellite, GIOVE-A, has opened a new era in Satellite Navigation. The European Galileo Project, which is now in its Development and Validation Phase, is managed on behalf of the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA), by the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU). Through their business development initiatives, one of the missions of the GJU is to develop future markets for Galileo and the European satellite based augmentation system, EGNOS. To facilitate this mission, the GJU Galileo Activities 2nd Call, funded through the EU’s 6th Framework Programme, directly addressed a large number of user communities. These include Location Based Services (LBS), Road, Rail, Maritime, Aviation, and a Special Sector. One of the specialised communities addressed within this Special Sector was our Land and Civil Engineering community. The GJU 2nd Call was launched in June 2004, with bids submitted in October 2004. After the bid evaluation and negotiations, the MONITOR Project Consortium was successful and was awarded the contract to address the Land and Civil Engineering Community. The partners within the MONITOR Project Consortium include universities, companies and organisations based in Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Romania and Greece, whose combined capabilities cover all aspects of high precision monitoring of land and engineering structural deformations, current satellite positioning techniques, engineering applications of GNSS and the potential benefits of the Galileo system. MONITOR is coordinated by the GEONETLAB , Centre of Excellence on Telegeomatics, of the University of Trieste, Italy, and is managed by Alcatel Alenia Space Italia, which is based in Rome. The academic partners of the Project include DISTART (Departments of Engineering Structure, Transport, Water, and Land Surveying) and Alma Mater Studiorum of the University of Bologna, Italy, and the Departments of Civil Engineering and Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristotiles University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Commercial and industrial expertise, covering marketing, technical, software, legal aspects and insurance matters, is provided by Edisoft SA, Elsacom SpA, Sogei SpA, ids SpA, Nottingham Scientific Ltd, Pagnanelli Risk Solutions Ltd, SC Optoelectronica-2001 SA, SEPA SpA, Sistematica SpA, and Value Partners SpA. Lastly, the user perspective is provided by two Italian local authorities, the Provincia di Bologna and the Regione Emilia-Romagna. This paper will describe the 18 months long MONITOR Project, which has officially kicked-off in November 2005. This Introduction will be followed by a broad description of the two European satellite navigation systems, Galileo and EGNOS, and a brief overview of the current practices in using GPS for monitoring purposes. The paper will be concluded with a discussion of the objectives of the MONITOR Project.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
