EGNSS applications fostering societal resilience and protecting the environment

Proposals may address social and professional applications. Promising areas of activities are:

• Applications supporting e-health, safety and emergency management;
• Search and Rescue applications, including tracking of distress situations and response management; resilience and management in crisis situations following a disaster in a context where conventional means are no longer available (telecommunications in particular);
• Emergency and disaster management;
• Management and related operation of critical infrastructure (e.g. electricity network, telecommunication networks, financial transactions), timing and synchronisation;
• Efficient Agriculture: Automated machine guidance, precision farming and machine control;
• Surveying and Mapping: Land survey, marine survey, cadastral and geodesy, and construction.

For all the professional areas, the development and innovation should build on:

• Multiple-frequencies E1, E5 and E6

  The aim of this topic is to develop innovative EGNSS applications to support societal resilience, safeguard the wellbeing of EU citizens, improve emergency and disaster management as a response to climate related, natural and man-made disasters and ensure green growth that protect the environment while generating economic growth.

  The challenge is to make these applications more affordable, easy to use and integrated with other solutions and technologies, including for example earth observation, e.g. Copernicus services, in order to enable new targeted innovative solutions.

  The following specific challenges are covered by this topic:

  • EGNSS is offering additional accuracy and features, such as the Search and Rescue service (SAR). The current SAR service, provided free of charge by Cospas-Sarsat to national Rescue Coordination Centres, is used by about one million beacon owners for maritime, aviation and leisure applications and over the last 30 years has on average contribute
    • Develop highly innovative applications taking advantage of Galileo and EGNOS differentiators in order to decrease the barriers to access such professional applications, reduce the price and increase the effectiveness of the solution, facilitate its use and increase the number of users;
    • Commercialise the products and services developed;
    • Proposals addressing Galileo SAR service should leverage the Forward and Return Link Services to improve the users’ safety and efficiency of the rescue activity by reducing the time to accurately locate the distress alert;
    • Emergency and disaster management applications should target integration of different sensors and position sources to identify, locate and react in critical situations, as well as delivering efficient response to ensure the wellbeing of citizens and monitor the infrastructure;
    • Innovative GNSS applications in agriculture improving the productivity and decreasing the negative environmental impact;
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