Second Training Session of TREGA: Training on EGNOS-GNSS in Africa (a Project funded by the European Union) | (smr 2658)
Starts 20 Jan 2014
Ends 12 Mar 2014
Central European Time
ICTP
Adriatico Guest House (Giambiagi Lecture Hall)
Lab: Adriatico Guest House Eklund Lab.
Via Grignano, 9
34151 - Trieste (Italy)
TREGA- A joint EC-ICTP training project to assist Africa's aviation sector Second TREGA Session: "GNSS Systems and Applications" and "Service Provision, User Support and Promotion of EGNOS Use in Africa"
TREGA Project is funded by the European Union
The joint EC-ICTP project Training EGNOS GNSS in Africa (TREGA) aims to support the implementation of GNSS/EGNOS in Sub-Saharan Africa by: - providing training on space project management, GNSS and EGNOS technology, SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) service provision and user support, and applied legal and regulatory matters to members of the EGNOS-Africa Joint Programme Office;
- selecting, procuring and using a testing platform and software simulator as a preliminary backbone infrastructure for the implementation of SBAS services in Sub-Saharan Africa;
- training a core number of African professionals to be able to address technical problems related to the conditions of Sub-Saharan Africa, making use of the testing platform/software simulator.
This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union.
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