navigation acronyms, abbreviations and definitions - International ...

EMPA European Maritime Pilots’ Association
EMRF European Maritime Radionavigation Forum
Independent body formed December 1999 from the European GNSS
Maritime Advisory Forum.
EMRP equivalent monopole radiated power
EMS EGNOS Message Server (archive of EGNOS broadcasted messages)
EMSA European Maritime Safety Agency (EC - formed in 2002 post-’Erika’)
EN Européen Normalisation (European Standard)
ENAC Italian CAA
ENAV Ente Nazionale di Assistenza al Volo (Italian ATSP)
ENC electronic navigational chart
Data is held as vectors and can be selectively displayed. When
produced to IHO/IMO standard S57 Ed 3 the data is legally
equivalent to a paper chart for vessels subject to SOLAS regulations.
ENC electronic noise cancelling
ENC European Navigation Conference
ENISA European Network and Information Security Agency
ENMA EGNOS Network Management Application
ENoLL European Network of Living Labs (EU)
ENRI Electronic Navigation Research Institute (Japan)
ENS electronic navigation system
ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation
ENT EGNOS Network Time
ENU East-North-Up (system of defining coordinates)
ENVISAT Environmental Satellite (ERS follow-on)
EO earth observation (from space)
EO electro-optics
EO2HEAVEN Earth Observation and ENVironmental modelling for the mitigation of
HEAlth risks
EOBR electronic on-board recorder (vehicles)
EOD electric organ discharge (typically of fish)
EOG EGNOS Operators’ Group
Alliance between ATS providers of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
UK which are contributing to the EGNOS project.
EOIG EGNOS Operations and Infrastructure Group
Consortium of EU aviation administrations.
EOR end-of-record (often 9999)
EOR Extent of the Realm (for UK, the land within limit of mean low water)
EOSI Earth Observation Science Initiative (NERC)
EOTD enhanced observed time difference (cellphone location technique)
Could give accuracy of