Written by APRSAF Monday, 28 February 2011 12:01
The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea announced that it had completed the technology development of a GPS (US Global Positioning System) and Galileo (Europe's Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS) receiver, which was able to receive and process positioning signals both from GPS and Galileo. According to ETRI, this technology will facilitate simultaneous data processing of existing GPS signals and Galileo civil signals, and thus, it will be able to provide positioning services with higher accuracy and reliability.
In Korea, approximately 80 GPS stations and observatories are operating, and they are used for mapping, space geodesy, diastrophism observation, measurement, etc. ETRI expects to expand the market for GNSS receivers in anticipation of multipositioning systems in the future, and it is now planning to transfer its technologies to develop both domestic and
foreign satellite-positioning markets at presentation meetings and exhibitions about the technology.
