European CGSIC International SubCommittee Meeting EUPOS - European network of multifunctional reference stations Janusz Sledzinski Prague, Czech Republic March 2005

PROJECT EUPOS EUROPEAN POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM · Project initiated by the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development supported by the European Academy of the Urban Environment (EA.UE), Berlin, Germany; · A Founding (Steering) Committee was elected at the Conference in Berlin on March 2002 to draw up the draft proposal of the European network to be established in the near future; · Project consists in establishment of the multifunctional reference GNSS stations in C&CE countries; · EUPOS network will contain about 420 stations in the area of 14 European countries.

International EUPOS Steering Committee Janis Balodis, Latvia Arunas Buga, Lithuania István Fejes, Hungary Vladimir Gvozdev, Russian Federation Peter Hankemeier, Germany Katarina Leitmannová, Slovakia Georgi Milev, Bulgaria, Oleg Odalović, Serbia and Montenegro Prit Pihlak, Estonia Gerd Rosenthal, Germany (Chairman of the ISC) Tiberiu Rus, Romania Ural Samratov, Russian Federation Jaroslav Šimek, Czech Republic Janusz Śledziński, Poland Gerhard Wübbena, Germany

PROJECT EUPOS EUROPEAN POSITION DETERMINATION SYSTEM

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ON EUPOS ** First Conference/workshop “Multi-functional GNSS reference station system for Europe” Berlin, Germany, 4-5 March 2002 ** First Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Warsaw, Poland, 2-3 July 2002 ** Second Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-7 November 2002 ** Third Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Riga, Latvia, June 2003 ** Second Conference/workshop “Multi-functional GNSS reference station system for Europe” Berlin, Germany, November 2003 ** Fourth Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Berlin, Germany, 23 November 2003 ** Fifth Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Bratislava, Slovakia, Juni 2004 ** Sixth Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee Sofia, Bulgaria, 2-3 November 2004 ** Seventh Conference of the EUPOS Steering Committee scheduled for 11 April 2005, Prague, Czech Rep.

CONCISE CHARACTERISTICS OF EUPOS (1)  The EUPOS stations will be permanently operating, multifunctional DGNSS reference stations.  The average distance between the stations will be about 70 km. Higher density may be required in conurbation. Existing reference station systems (e.g. EUREF, IGS) should be connected or incorporated.  The coordinates of the stations will be determined with high precision, both in ETRS 89 and in conventional geodetic reference systems by connecting to EUREF points as well as to the other control networks of the countries.  EUPOS will use the signals of Galileo as basis standard as soon as it is available and GPS as basis standard up to the complete availability of Galileo and as optional additional standard after complete availability of Galileo; also System GLONASS will be used as optional additional standard.

CONCISE CHARACTERISTICS OF EUPOS (2)  Only high quality geodetic GNSS dual frequency receivers will be used at EUPOS ® reference stations. Positions of reference station antennas will be checked regularly for anydisplacement  A common use of reference stations in neighbouring countries close to border areas will be taken into account. The reference stations will be networked with each other, even cross-border.  All participating countries will observe the unified standards or/and will build up their multi-functional systems fully compatible with future European system GALILEO.

EUPOS SUB-SERVICES Permanent DGNSS service EUPOS will maintain the following sub-services: EUPOS DGNSS for real time or post processing DGNSS applications by code and code-phase measurements with metre up to sub-metre accuracy; EUPOS RTK for real time DGNSS applications by carrier phase measurements with centimetre accuracy; EUPOS Geodetic for DGNSS applications by phase measurements in static or kinematic mode with centimetre up to sub-centimetre accuracy.

NUMBER OF PLANNED REFERENCE STATIONS

Planned and existing reference EUPOS stations

Russian stations of the project EUPOS

ORGANISATION The management of the project EUPOS is performed by: International EUPOS Steering Committee (ISC), National EUPOS Service Centres (NSC), Workshops “EUPOS ® – Multifunctional GNSS Reference Station Systems for Europe”.

Charter duties of the International EUPOS Steering Committee (ISC), The main tasks of the ISC are: coordination of the project actions and management, agreements with the NSC and manufactures, dissemination of information, organisation of EUPOS workshops and symposia, clarification of technical questions and standardisation, organisation and coordination of software and hardware tests and support in training the technical staff

Charter duties of the National EUPOS Service Centre (NSC) The main tasks of the NSC are: planning, establishment and maintenance of the national EUPOS network contact with the International EUPOS Steering Committee and its office, coordination of the interests and the activities of the national authorities and other governmental bodies, checking the integrity of the network, testing software and hardware in agreement with the International EUPOS Steering Committee and their own interests, providing adequate information for the users about the status of the network, organisation of educational and training courses for the technical staff and the users, transferring the international development trends and contributes to the EUPOS developments.

Charter duties of the Workshops on EUPOS Workshops EUPOS will be organised by the International EUPOS Steering Committee once a year in Berlin as an information platform on a broader base for the necessary exchange of experiences and information, to discuss and create further developments of EUPOS, to increase the identification with the system.

EUPOS vs. Galileo Expected advantages for Galileo: Galileo gains a huge number of new users; more than 400 reference stations in 14 countries will work permanently using the Galileo system; By EUPOS Galileo will transfer the reference system to all users in Central and Eastern Europe; EUPOS will offer and guarantee the services of proper accuracy as recommended by the Galileo programme; EUPOS stations could be integrated into Galileo programme. Some selected EUPOS stations could be incorporated to the Galileo ground control segment.

EUPOS vs. EUREF EPN EUPOS reference stations will be connected to the EUREF EPN; The EUPOS stations will be related to the ETRF system and will transfer the ETRF to all Central and Eastern European countries; Some selected EUPOS Processing Centres could serve as EPN Local Analysis Centres; International EUPOS Steering Committee will establish close cooperation links with the IAG (EUREF) Sub-Commission for Europe of the IAG Commission X on Global and Regional Geodetic Networks.

CONSULTATIONS European Commission Brussels; EU INTERREG IIIC East Joint Technical Secretariat, Vienna; UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), Vienna.

EC CONSULTATIONS POSITIVE ASSESSMENTS: -effective organisation and management of the project; -broad spectrum of services for geodesy and navigation; -EUPOS will use the signal of Galileo as basis standard as soon as it is available ; -14 countries participate in the project; -project covers about 20% of the area of Europe; -very short time (about 3 years) of realisation of the project.

EC CONSULTATIONS NEGATIVE ASSESSMENTS : –very high cost of the project (1st version about 900 stations  100 M Euro); –in the project participate countries that have different relations to the European Union; EU SUGGESTIONS: –to reduce costs of the project by reducing number of stations; –to divide the project into some parts for group of countries that can use the same support of EC programmes (ETDF, ISPA, CARDS, TACIS, PHARE, INTERREG).

SUPPORT OF THE UN OFFICE OF OUTER SPACE AFFAIRS (OOSA), Vienna EUPOS presented at the UN/USA Expert Meetings on the Use and Application of GNSS, organised by OOSA Vienna; OOSA granted financial support for organisation of the conferences of the International EUPOS Steering Committee.

INTERREG Umbrella project prepared EU INTERREG IIIC East Project “EUPOS -IRC (InterRegional Cooperation)” and submitted with the request for financial support of about € to INTERREG East Joint Secretariat in Vienna.

INTERREG UMBRELLA PROJECT EUPOS - InterRegional Cooperation Participating countries: Bulgaria Czech Republic Germany Hungary Latvia Poland Romania Russia Serbia and Montenegro

INTERREG UMBRELLA PROJECT EUPOS - InterRegional Cooperation COMPONENTS AND CHAIRMANSHIP Management and Coordination (Germany); Geoinformation in the Regional Context (Czech Republic); EUPOS Competence Centres for Spatial Basis Infrastructures (Hungary); Large-Scale Information Exchange and Training (Poland); Planing Sustainable Multi-sectoral Geoinformation Applications, User Acquisition, Investment Preparation (Latvia).

POSSIBLE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM EC PROGRAMMES: ERDF - for EU member countries (Czech Rep., Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia), ISPA - for EU candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania), CARDS – for West-Balkan countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro), TACIS – for the Russian Federation, INTERREG III C – for Germany as for the Coordinator of the Project and for umbrella project

INTERNET WEB PAGES Warsaw: (Responsible: J. Sledzinski) Berlin: (Responsible: G. Rosenthal)