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Article: France: EC to Declare EGNOS Operational for Non-Safety-of-Life Use.
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- September 12, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
The European Commission (EC) expects to declare in October that the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) which provides satellite-based augmentation signals for GPS and Galileo is operationally ready as an open and free service for non-safety-of-life (non-SoL) applications, according to a press release from the GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
As does the U.S. Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) over North America, EGNOS s Open Service provides Europeans with improved accuracy of GPS. For the past several months, EGNOS has demonstrated excellent signal quality throughout Europe, the EC says.
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