Objective The purpose of this project is to analyse the potential applications that could be open as a combination of Galileo and satellite communications in South Africa and the whole Southern African Development Community (SADC) region which encompasses 14 countries. South Africa as well as the whole Southern African development community area is now under the coverage of the EGNOS system prototype which is the precursor of Galileo and makes extensive use of satellite telecommunication.This enables already to benefit in Southern Africa of this signal and enable in the short/medium term some applications which would not be possible with GPS only. South Africa as well as neighbouring countries have a lot of specificities in the way that it combines urban centres well equipped from a telecommunication perspective together with a large territory with a much lesser telecom infrastructure density making satellite a clear plus towards national development. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology Programme(s) FP6-AEROSPACE - Aeronautics and Space: thematic priority 4 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) AERO-2005-2.3.3.1d - Analysis of future potential combined Galileo/satellite telecommunications services Call for proposal FP6-2005-SPACE-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme SSA - Specific Support Action Coordinator ALCATEL ALENIA SPACE FRANCE Address 12 rue de la baume Paris France See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH South Africa EU contribution € 0,00 Address Meiring naude street Pretoria See on map Links Website Opens in new window
