EGNOS - Projet EuroMed Transport

Provision of Satellite Navigation Services over the Arabic
countries, Mediterranean area and Africa
Ugo Celestino
European Commission
Damascus, 8 April 2010

Content
• Benefits of GNSS services
• Status of GNSS in Africa, MEDA, Arabic
Peninsula

Benefits from use of GNSS
• Direct economic benefits
- Sales of GNSS product and
services (upstream & downstream)
- Cost savings (e.g. reduction in flight
time, fuel usage, ILS equipment,...)
• Indirect socio & economic benefits
- Reduction of accidents, pollution,
loss of human lives, ...
- Increase in employment
- Increase in economic activity
Measured for EU
Measured for MEDA
countries (in METIS,
2009)
Partially
measured for
Africa
To be evaluated
for Arabic
peninsula, East EU

Direct benefits: GNSS services + products
• Worlwide “GNSS-enabled” market size for civil
applications: around € 236 billions in 2025 per
year
2009
€ 140 billion
2025
€ 236 billion
Time

An opportunity for entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurs from non EU countries can already participate
in FP7 Galileo R&D and the “Galileo Masters” yearly
competition
• Technologies to integrate in hardware and software
developments, including applets and plugs-in
• Standards shared with users worldwide: huge markets
• Ubiquitous among ICT application domains:
Tracking
and tracing
Mapping and
cadastre
Transports
Health
Tourism
Emergency
management and
humanitarian aid

Benefits from GALILEO & EGNOS
• As civilian systems, they
- Can offer service-level-agreements,
enter contractual relations via the
operator (e.g. Egnos Service
Provider)
- Comply with ICAO, IMO standards
for SoL services
• EGNOS is operational, now
- Certified for SoL in 2010
- Will be integrated in Galileo
- An immediate opportunity to gain
benefits and know-how in sat nav
service provision
Need committed
local and regional
Authorities
EGNOS coverage
required

EGNOS coverage goes beyond EU
EGNOS
Service Area
EGNOS Satellite
Footprints
EGNOS satellites and central processing
capability are assets that can be leveraged
by all countries in the central footprint

Towards a worldwide SBAS coverage
Source: Stanford University
WAAS EGNOS
SDCM
GAGAN
MSAS

Benefits in aviation become higher in less
equipped areas
• General operational
benefits
• Reduction in angle of
approach (direct and
curved)
• Better lateral guidance
• EGNOS enables a
reduction in the decision
height
EGNOS competitive space
• Allows for IFR-like operation in non ILS-equipped airports
• Increase in airports capacity
• Increase in safety
• Increase in flight capability (e.g. helicopters)
• Expensive land based navaids can be avoided
• Enables their long term decommissioning => lower
terminal charges

Impact on Economic development and integration
37% of Africa is within
250km from an ILS
equipped airport
87% of Africa is >
250km away from a
main airport
EGNOS
potential

Millions
of Euro
The case of EGNOS for aviation in Africa
1.600
1.400
1.200
1.000
Cumulative undiscounted net benefits on a 30 years timeframe
(2012-42) will amount to 1.7€b versus cost of €0.3€b
800
600
400
200
0
1,670
50
129
311
1,180
Cumulative undis
counted benefits
DDC
49
Navaids
ADS-B
CFIT
3
171
Equipage inveProcedures
invInfrastructure
c
stments estments apex
11
136
Infrastructure
opex
1.311
Cumulative un
discounted net
benefits
Discounted
net benefits*
>210€m
Note: * 8% discount
rate has been used

Technical feasibility and users’ interest
A demonstration of the use of EGNOS for advanced rail traffic
management, on low-density rail lines, Gauteng, South Africa 2005
Temporary EGNOS reference stations installed in several African countries: Chad, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa; flight testing took place during a East-to-
West flight from Dakar to Mombasa on 19-20 May 2005

Example of EGNOS use beyond aviation:
land management
• Hydrographic survey
• Crustal deformation monitoring
• Landslides, flooding, volcanic crustal dynamics, etc
• Improvement of National Geodetic Network
• Cartography, cadastre and GIS data collection
• Update of regional technical map, standardised cadastral
surveying, georeferencing orthoimages satellite images, etc.
• Structure monitoring
• Bridges, dams, buildings
• Civil Engineering
• Support to meteorological analysis and forecasts

Overall SBAS (EGNOS) benefits in Africa
• Economic opening-up of isolated regions, reduction of access
costs to regional centres
• Improving transport infrastructure at once by making regional
airports accessible to nationally and internationally
• Reducing maintenance costs, safety and security of railways
• Improving dramatically air and maritime transport safety
• Impacting positively agriculture, mining, energy, and land
management
• Reduction of costs, increased safety and greater reactivity for
humanitarian interventions
• Building African capacity at managing large projects
• Establishing pan-African infrastructure
• Training of African users and operators
• Reinforcement of African academic institutions

Results of a Cost-benefits analysis
The use of SBAS for Africa can bring benefits for various economic sectors
Total benefits surpass 500€m over the 2012-2042 (30 years) period
Millions of Euro
311
Total discounted
net benefits
(Discount rate
of 8%)
~ 520€m

Satellite navigation in the Africa-EU policies
• SBAS in Africa is part of the First Action Plan (2008-2010) for
the Implementation of the Africa-EU Strategic Partnership
(Lisbon Summit, December 2007)
• Reaffirmed by Vice-President Tajani at the African Union Open
Day on Infrastructure (Addis Ababa, January 2009)
Included in the
Communication from the
Commission to the European
Parliament and to the Council
“Partnership between the
European Union and Africa.
Connecting Africa and
Europe: working towards
strengthening transport
cooperation” (COM(2009)
301 final, 24 June 2009)
Euro-Mediterranean
Partnership and
Neighbourhood Policy
with
North Africa
Cotonou
Agreement
with
sub-Saharan
Africa
Agreement on
Trade,
Development and
Cooperation with
South Africa

Africa programme implementation steps
1. Preliminary studies
2. Cost Benefit Analysis
3. Programming
(implementation and
management plan)
4. Governance scheme
5. Political support
6. Funding
7. Detailed system design
… - 2009
2010
2011
8. Deployment of EGNOS across
Africa
2012
9. Service provision and operation
Main issues to be tackled
1. Rationale and benefits
2. Technical alternatives
3. Liability policy
4. Certification policy
5. Industrial issues
6. Training needs and capacity building
7. Exploitation
8. Costs
9. Governance structure
10. Funding options
11. Project management structure

Potential EGNOS extensions
EGNOS
Service Area
MEDA Extension
W. Africa
S. Africa
Northern-East
Europe
Arabic
peninsula
EGNOS Satellite
Footprints
For Middle-East & Arabic
Peninsula, the key steps are to
analyse the technical, political
and economic rationale in view
of deciding on the further
implementation, allocating the
necessary funds and preparing
decisions
Being analysed in
SIRAJ project

R&D under way to study EGNOS extension
EEGS (SBAS in Eastern Europe): Russian Space Agency, GMV (Spain),
Ukrainian space agency, Romanian Space Agency
ESESA (EGNOS Extension in South Africa): S.Africa Space Agency, FDC
(France), Ecorys
SIRAJ (SBAS Implementation in ACAC and ASECNA Regions): ASECNA,
Telespazio (Italy), ACAC, ONDA, Pildo Labs (Spain), Navya Solutions (Spain),
Senasa (Spain), Egis Avia (France)
Upgrading past technical knowledge
with local partners fully involved

Overview of EGNOS extension status
Study Deployment
Service Provision
Africa - sub
saharian
(EU Dev Funds)
North
Europe
Eastern Europe
(EEGS)
(*) pending approval
South Africa
(ESESA)
ACAC region
(SIRAJ)
MEDA countries
(Euromed GNSS I)
MEDA countries
(Euromed GNSS II)
South Africa
(own funds)
Africa - sub
saharian
(EU Dev Funds)*

Conclusions
EGNOS Northern-
Service Area East Europe
MEDA
Extension
W.
Africa
S. Africa
GNSS technology bring significantly more benefits to
the downstream segments
• Creating direct economic opportunities
• Enabling more efficient/effective public policies (e.g.
in all transport modes)
EGNOS is an immediate opportunity to gain such
benefits and know-how in sat nav service provision
• Common worldwide standard (SBAS)
• Several past real life tests support the concept
• Operator in place to sign service level agreements
• Technical possibilities of extending geographic
coverage are under study
EGNOS extensions accelerate in presence of
• Committed local/regional Authorities
• Sound financing options:
• Development funds, or
• Local country contribution (e.g. S. Africa)

Thank you for your attention
Further information:
http://www.satellite-navigation.eu/
Input and questions are welcome
ugo.celestino@ec.europa.eu

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