25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-8.2.3

CONTRIBUTION TO THE OPERATIONAL EVALUATION OF EGNOS AS AN AERONAUTICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM

A. Fonseca, J. Azinheira, S. Soley*
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal; *Pildo Labs, Spain

Keywords: satellite navigation, operational evaluation, flight testing

This paper describes the Portuguese contribution to the EGNOS operational validation, within the EGNOS Data Collection Network (EDCN). The EDCN, the used methodology and some static performance results are briefly presented. A more detailed description will be devoted to flight trials, with a description of the procedure and results.

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