Considering the role of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as a worldwide key infrastructure, the accuracy and reliability of GNSS Signals is crucial in every application field.
The development and continuous measurement and assessment of satellite navigation signals & systems are the main capabilities of the BayNavTech™ Satellite Navigatiion Centre at EADS Astrium in Munich.

Key services of BayNavTech™:

• Performance Verification & Monitoring of GNSS Signals, Systems & Services
• Environments for the performance assessment and the development of Navigation Systems
• Verification of hardware and software of Signal Generators
• Development of Applications & Services based on satellite navigation

Application field: BayNavTech™ functionalities refer to the European GNSS Galileo* in the first place, but can also be applied to the US-American GPS and even to Local Augmentation Systems, which improve the accuracy, availability and integriy of GNSS.

Concept of BayNavTech™

Composition

BayNavTech™ consists of two modular core facilities:

• BaySEF™ - The BayNavTech™ Signal Evaluation Facility is a flexible software receiver and evaluation platform for the reception and processing of navigation signals and the determination of their performance parameters.
  
  
• BayPAF™ - The BayNavTech™ Performance Assessment Facility is a highly configurable environment for the development and analysis of system performance and application algorithms, systems & services.

Capabilities

These facilities provide a broad range of services for all Satellite Navigation Industry - developers, operators, providers of value added services and end users,
offering capabilities in:

• Routine performance monitoring of Satellite Navigation & Augmentation Systems
• Customized performance assessment and analyses
• Support on hardware and software development with simulations & analyses
• Field experiments with transportable BayNavTech™ equipment
• Assessment of signal compatibility with respect to special reception environments (multipath, interference, jamming,...)
• Provision of data:
  • Navigation message data
  • GNSS monitoring data
  • High-precision prost-processed navigation data for reference purposes (e.g. precise prost-processed orbits)
  • Supplementary navigation data: time synchronization data, ionospheric data, intermediary performance figures etc.
  • Navigation Augmentation data, e.g. local integrity information

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