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Towards a "GNSS System of Systems"
The Munich Satellite Navigation
Summit 2008 - the sixth one - to be
held 19 - 21 February
2008 in the famous ”Residenz München”,
Germany, has been established as the
European and international conference with
global impact featuring invited high-ranking worldwide speakers from industry,
science and governments dealing with the directions of satellite navigation now
and in the future.
In 2008 the main focus will be on how to
achieve a "GNSS System of Systems" in near future considering
• the re-structured European Galileo
program and the first studies on the evolution of it,
• the activities in North America
for the modernisation of the US Global Positioning System GPS (GPS-III),
• the re-vitalisation of the Russian
GLONASS system and its possible change to CDMA,
• the launch of the first Chinese
COMPASS satellite and the Chinese and Asian satellite navigation perspectives,
• the developments in India, Japan,
South Korea and Australia.
Various sessions will
feature discussions among invited panellists talking about perspectives
and critical issues in various rapidly growing application scenes
of satellite navigation, in particular also in safety and security
applications
of satellite navigation. Brief presentations
and statements of the panellists are initiating each session. An
interactive question and answer period with the auditorium is
closing the topic.
The Summit is part of the
activities of the high-tech cluster on satellite navigation of the
Bavarian government.
It is organized by the Institute of
Geodesy and Navigation of the University FAF Munich in
cooperation with and supported by numerous
organizations outlined here.
Due to the great
success again in 2008:
• An
exhibition for industry and institutions
is taking place during the conference.
• A visit to the
German Galileo Test Environment GATE , south
of Munich, will be offered. Here you can get some pictures of the GATE area.
• The
Galileo Master
competiton will be opened.
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