Morning Wednesday, March 2, 2016

 

Session 1. GNSS PROGRAM UPDATES – GLOBAL SYSTEMS

8.00 - 9.00 hrs
Presentations are informing about news from the global satellite navigation systems in operation and in development:
GALILEO (EU), GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), BeiDou (China)

 

Chairmen:
Michael Swiek, Mike International, LLC, Washington, DC, USA
David Turner, Deputy Director, Office of Space and Advanced Technology, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, USA

 

Panel Members:
Harold Martin, Director, National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, Washington, DC, USA
     „Status and Modernization of the US Global Positioning System”
Paul Flament, Head of Unit, Galileo and EGNOS – Programme Management, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
     „Status of Galileo“
Sergey Karutin, General Designer of GLONASS global navigation system, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, Moscow, Russia
     „Status of GLONASS”

NN, representative of the China Satellite Navigation Office, Beijing, China *
     „BeiDou Navigation Satellite System Development”
Sharafat Gadimova, Program Officer, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna, Austria
    „Status of the ICG”

 

Session 2. GNSS PROGRAM UPDATES – REGIONAL AND AUGMENTATION SYSTEMS

9.00 - 10.00 hrs

Presentations are informing about news from the worldwide regional and augmentation satellite navigation systems in operation and under development.
Regional: QZSS (Japan), IRNSS (India)
Augmentation: EGNOS (Europe), WAAS (USA), MSAS (Japan), SDCM (Russia), GAGAN (India), Nigcom-Sat (Nigeria)

 

Chairman:
Dr. Todd Walter, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

Panel Members:
Jason Burns, Navigation Programs, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington DC, USA
    „Status of WAAS”
Jean-Marc Pieplu, EGNOS Exploitation Program Manager, European GNSS Agency (GSA),Prague, Czech Republic
    „Status of EGNOS”
Grigory Stupak, Deputy General Director, First Deputy General Designer JSC „Russian Space Systems”, Moscow, Russia
    „Status of SDCM”
Dr. Takeyasu Sakai, Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), Tokyo, Japan
    „Status of the Japanese QZSS Regional System”
Dr. John A. Momoh, Assistant Director & GNSS Project Manager, Special Assistant (Technical) to the Director-General, National Space Research and Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria
    „Status of Nigcom-Sat”
Julien Lapie, Adviser to the Director General, Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), Dakar, Senegal
    „Update on ASECNA programme”

 

MORNING COFFEE

10.00 - 10.30 hrs

 

Session 3. GNSS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND EQUATORIAL REGIONS

10.30 - 12.00 hrs

All the current and developing Global Satellite Navigation Systems, namely the US GPS, the European Galileo, the Russian GLONASS and the Chinese Beidou, have been set up and are operated by countries in the Northern Hemisphere. The same applies to the Augmentation Systems like the US WAAS and the European EGNOS. Considering safety-critical applications, such as the landing of Civil Aviation aircraft, it is important to involve countries in the Southern Hemisphere (eg South America, South Africa and Australia) and quasi-Equatorial Regions (such as Egypt and India) in the discussions on current and future applications of Satellite Navigation. This is the objective of this Session.

 

Chairman:
Prof. Vidal Ashkenazi, Chief Executive of U.K.-based Nottingham Scientific Ltd, Nottingham, UK

 

Panel Members:
Lt Col Eng Alessander de Andrade Santoro, Air Navigation Systems Director, Brazilian Department of Airspace Control (DECEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jeoffrey Matshoba, Acting Executive ATM, CNS Planning & Standards, ATNS Head Office, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Refaat Rashad, President, Arab Institute of Navigation, Alexandria, Egypt
Dr. Takeyasu Sakai, Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI), Tokyo, Japan
Ed Williams, Senior Engineering Specialist, Department of Strategic Planning, Airservices Australia

 

LUNCH

12.00 - 13.00 hrs

 

Afternoon

 

Session 4. MUNICH FLASHLIGHTS - NEWS FROM BAVARIA

13.00 - 14.15 hrs

Brief presentations from the Munich scene reporting on news and activities of the Bavarian satellite navigation network of excellence and of the high-tech cluster of satellite navigation.

 

Chairman:
Dr. Günter Heinrichs, Director Business Development, Marketing & Sales, IFEN GmbH, Poing, Germany

 

Panel Members:
Dr. Wolfgang Bär, Head of Mobile Solutions, IFEN GmbH, Poing, Germany
Prof. Dr. Roger Förstner, Director, Institute of Space Technology, Bundeswehr University Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
Martin Grzebellus, Managing Director, NavCert, Munich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Christoph Günther, Head of the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Giuseppe Lenzo, Chief Executive Officer, spaceopal GmbH, Munich, Germany
Dr. Frank Schubert, System Engineer for Navigation Signals, Airbus Defence and Space, Ottobrunn, Germany

 

Session 5. LEGAL ISSUES OF GNSS TIMING

14.15 -15.30 hrs
This year‘s Legal Session will focus on the timing aspects of GNSS. Representatives of the International Telecommunications Union, the European Commission and the National Metrology Agency of Germany - will present the international legal and governance framework for timing aspects and GNSS, discuss latest developments and current regulatory issues, as well as special aspects of GNSS timing in the financial markets. The Legal Session is again organized and chaired by BHO Legal from Germany.

 

Chairmen:
Dr. Ingo Baumann, Partner, BHO Legal, Cologne, Germany
Dr. Oliver Heinrich, Partner, BHO Legal, Cologne, Germany

 

Panel Members:
Dr. Andreas Bauch, Head of working group Dissemination of time, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
Vadim Nozdrin, Study Group Counselor , SG7 & WP5B BR / SGD, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland
Christoph Kautz, Deputy Head of Unit, Galileo and EGNOS - Applications, Security, International Cooperation, DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Heiko Gerstung, Managing Director, Meinberg Funkuhren GmbH & Co. KG, Bad Pyrmont, Germany

 

AFTERNOON TEA

15.30 - 16.00 hrs

 

Session 6. GALILEO PRS – THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK AND NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATIONS

16.00 - 17.30 hrs

The Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) will provide a robust and encrypted positioning- and timing-capability restricted to governmental authorized users. According to Decision 1104/2011/EU each EU Member State will decide which users will be authorized. The specific framework is being established via its Competent PRS Authority (CPA). First the EC and the GSA will give an introduction
on PRS and its activities to support the PRS user segment developments within the Member States both for the “traditional PRS” approach, as well as for “innovative PRS” concepts. Afterwards different CPAs will present their national organizational set-up, their current activities and future plans.

 

Chairman:
Dr. Stefan Baumann, IABG, Ottobrunn, Germany

 

Panel Members:

Philippe Jean, Head of Unit, Galileo Directorate, DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Marco Detratti, PRS Officer, GSA, Prague, Czech Republic
Colonel (Armament Corps) Philippe Bertrand, French Competent PRS Authority, Sécretariat Général de la Défense et de la Sécurité Nationale, Paris, France
Kai Herrmann, German Competent PRS Authority, German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Berlin, Germany
Salvatore Viviano, Autorità Responsabile PRS-Italia, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Rome, Italy
Imogen Ormerod, Head of Galileo Policy, UK Space Agency, Swindon, UK

 

Session 7. GNSS IN TELEMATICS SYSTEMS FOR THE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

17.30 - 19.00 hrs
The need for accurate and reliable positioning information is clearly emerging for Autonomous Vehicles, and some important steps have been made to find the complementarity within multiple sources of data (e.g. RADAR, LiDAR, computer vision, GNSS, etc.). The combination of different technologies and sensors, in which GNSS has a key role, allows the in-vehicle system to identify the optimal path of action. In this session, experts from R&D institutions, automotive suppliers, car manufacturers and public bodies will focus on the challenges and opportunities ahead.

 

Chairman:
Gian-Gherardo Calini, Head of Market Development, GSA, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Panel Members:
Luisa Andreone, Program Manager, Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Turin, Italy
Evaldo Bruci, Professional Expert, Magneti Marelli S.p.A, Turin, Italy
Dr. Ricardo Scopigno, Head of Research Area, Multi-Layer Wireless Solutions (MLW), ISMB, Turin, Italy *
Marcus Obst, Project Specialist and GNSS Researcher, BASELABS GmbH, Chemnitz, Germany

 

EVENING RECEPTION: SUMMIT SPACE NIGHT 2016

19.30 hrs

sponsored by Airbus Defence and Space

 

 

 

 

* to be confirmed