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Article: To all the ships at sea: GNSS and maritime surveillance; As part of the Galileo program's exploration of new applications for the developing system, a consortium of companies used the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) as part of a system to track ocean-going vessels automatically over a large region.(Maritime Surveillance)(automatic identification system)
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- GPS World
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- July 1, 2004
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