International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG): Building a System of Systems Outline of Presentation Executive Secretariat of the ICG United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Vienna, Austria 1. UN, COPUOS, OOSA 2. UNISPACE III (1999), Action Team GNSS 3. ICG, Providers Forum 4. Information Dissemination and Capacity Building for GNSS Applications 5. Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education and ICG Information Centres 6. GNSS Applications for Solar-Terrestrial Interaction: Space Weather 7. IGY1957/IHY2007: Ground-Based World-Wide Instrument Arrays 8. IGY1957/IHY2007: GPS for Ground-Based World-Wide Instrument Arrays: SID and AWESOME 9. Summary: Top-Down Scenario and Bottom-Up Scenario International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-Based and Ground-Based Augmentation Systems and Applications Berlin, Germany, 11-14 November 2008
1. UN, COPUOS, OOSA UNGA (192) mandates the UNCOPUOS (69) and its subsidiary bodies: Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and Legal Subcommittee UN adopts annually a GA resolution on International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space UNOOSA: Secretariat of COPUOS and the Secretariat of Inter-Agency Meeting on Outer Space Matters of the UN system
2. UNISPACE III (1999), Action Team GNSS UNISPACE: 1968, 1982, 1999: The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development, containing recommendation on enhancement of, universal access to, and compatibility of space-based positioning, navigation, and timing systems Action Teams established by COPUOS under voluntary leadership by Member States: Action Team GNSS co-chaired by United States and Italy (38 nations and 15 organizations) 2001-2002 Regional Workshops in Malaysia (ESCAP), Austria (ECE), Chile (ECLAC), and Zambia (ECA) 2002-2004 International Meetings to develop ICG ToR and ICG Work Plan with a view to applications, education, research, coordination of GNSS at the widest international level desirable
3. ICG, Providers Forum Building a system of systems (mindfully recalling GEO/GEOSystem of Systems) by turning short-term Action Team GNSS into a long-term International Committee on GNSS (ICG/ GNSSystem of Systems): UNGA, resolution 61/111 of 14 December 2006, noted with appreciation that the ICG had been established on a voluntary basis as an informal body to promote cooperation, as appropriate, on matters of mutual interest related to civil satellitebased positioning, navigation, timing and value-added services, as well as the compatibility and interoperability of GNSS, while increasing their use to support sustainable development, particularly in developing countries
3. ICG, Providers Forum (cont.) Terms of Reference of ICG (under development): ICG: Members, Associate Members, Observers (9 nations and the European Community, 15 organizations encompassing UN syetm entities, IGOs, NGOs) ICG Executive Secretariat: OOSA ICG participation is open to all countries and entities that are either GNSS providers or users of GNSS services, and are interested and willing to actively engage in ICG activities Work Plan of ICG (under development): A. Compatibility and interoperability (USA and Russian Federation) B. Enhancement of performance of GNSS services (India and ESA) C. Information dissemination (UNOOSA) D. Interaction with international organizations, national, and regional authorities (IAG, IGS, FIG) E. Coordination among service providers Providers Forum: Within ICG is the Providers Forum, consisting of those countries operating GNSS systems or with plans to develop one. Venue for coordination and cooperation to improve service (China, India, Japan, European Commission, Russian Federation, United States)
4. Information Dissemination and Capacity Building for GNSS Applications Surveying, mapping, and Earth science Agriculture and management of natural resources Environmental monitoring and management Transportation Education and training, awareness increase
5. Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education (affiliated to the UN) and ICG Information Centres The Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education were created under the auspices of the United Nations through its Office for Outer Space Affairs Goal: to develop, through in-depth education, an indigenous capability for research and applications in the core disciplines of: Remote Sensing & GIS, Satellite Communications, Satellite Meteorology and Global Climate, Space and Atmospheric Sciences as well as data management. Regional Centres located in: Africa: CRASTE-LF (Morocco), CSSTE-E (Nigeria) Asia and the Pacific: CSSTEAP (India) Latin America and the Caribbean: CRECTEALC (Brazil/Mexico)
5. Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education (affiliated to the UN) and ICG Information Centres (cont.) Meteorology Communications Remote Sensing Space Science Future: GNSS, Space Law,...
6. GNSS Applications for Solar-Terrestrial Interaction: Space Weather COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee 2004: Understanding effects that the variability in the Sun can have on the Earth s magnetosphere, environment and climate Understanding how space weather, caused by solar variability, could affect, among other things, space systems and human space flight, electrical power transmission, high-frequency radiocommunications, global navigation satellite system signals and long-range radar, as well as the well-being in high altitude aircraft Severe magnetic storms resulting from coronal mass ejections had caused failures of geostationary orbit communications satellites, radio blackouts and power outages on Earth Ability to predict and monitor space weather accurately could assist in preventing or minimizing impacts of severe magnetic storms on space-based services and systems and on ground power systems
7. IGY1957/IHY2007: Ground-Based World-Wide Instrument Arrays Since 2005, deploying small inexpensive instruments such as magnetometers, radio antennas, GPS receivers, all-sky cameras, etc. around the world to make global measurements of ionospheric, magnetospheric, and heliospheric phenomena Partnership between instrument providers and instrument host nations Lead scientist/engineer provides instrumentation Host institution provides manpower, facilities, and operational support Data taking, sharing, analysis, publication Using data in teaching space science at university level
8. IGY1957/IHY2007: GPS for World-Wide Instrument Arrays MAGDAS: Magnetic Data Acquisition System (Japan) GPS: Global Positioning System in Africa (France) RENOIR: Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory for Ionospheric Regions (USA) SAVNET: South Atlantic Very-low-frequency NETwork (Brazil) SEVAN: New type of particle detectors for space weather forecasting network (Armenia) SCINDA: Scintillation Network Decision Aid (USA) AWESOME: Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System (USA) SID: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (USA) The total number of IHY Programmes under development is 17 Next Slides: SID and AWESOME
9. Summary Top-Down Scenario UN, ICG, Providers GPS/WAAS, GLONASS/SDCM, Galileo/EGNOS, Compass/Beidou, GAGAN/IRNSS, QZSS/MSAS WGA: Compatibility and interoperability WGC: Information dissemination and capacity building Annual ICG Meetings: 2006 UNOV, 2007 India, 2008 USA, 2009 Russia Regional Reference Systems: AFREF, EUREF, EUPOS, SIRGAS, AGRGP, PCGIAP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNCOPUOS, STSC, UNOOSA, UNPSA, ICGES, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bottom-Up Scenario UN, IHY, Users (developing nations) Instrument arrays Space weather, ionosphere, solar activity Annual Workshops (UN, ESA, NASA, JAXA): 2005 UAE, 2006 India, 2007 Japan, 2009 South Korea UN-affiliated Regional Centres and ICG Information Centres