GeoNumerics enters the GAL consortium
GeoNumerics is proud to announce that, as of 2013-01-07, it has joined the GAL project consortium.
In the GAL project, GeoNumerics will contribute an extended capability of its GENA platform in order to handle millions of unknowns and the further development of the dynamicSURVEY model toolbox for GENA. The extended capability of GENA is a keystone in the implementation of the dynamic network approach for the solution of large systems of differential and non-differential observation equations with applications to aerial, terrestrial and marine mobile mapping. The model toolbox dynamicSURVEY will implement the mathematical models to derive gravity perturbations from inertial observations (linear accelerations and angular rates) and GPS/Galileo carrier phase observations.
Galileo is the European Union (EU) satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing system and, as such, the EU contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) of systems together with the US GPS, the Russian GLONASS and the Chinese Beidou. It will consist of 30 satellites positioned in three circular Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) planes at 23222 km altitude above the Earth. Its Final Operational Capability (FOC) configuration of 30 satellites is scheduled, as of today, for 2020.
GeoNumerics is a research and development (R&D) intensive small-and-medium-enterprise (SME) company specialised in geomatics and accurate navigation.
PROJECT DETAILS
Acronym: GAL
Title: Galileo for Gravity
Period: 2012-01-14 to 2014-02-14
Funding: European GNSS Agency (GSA), European Commission (EC) grant 287193, 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7), FP7-GALILEO-2011-GSA-1-a
Coordinator: Galileian Plus (Rome, IT)
Other participants: DEIMOS Engenharia (Lisabon, PT), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, CH), GeoNumerics (Barcelona, ES), Institut Geològic de Catalunya (Barcelona, ES), Institute of Geomatics (Castelldefels, ES), Politecnico di Milano (Milano, IT)
Web page: http://www.gal-project.eu