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EGNOS: Safety of Life Service Definition Document

Author: European Commission: Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry
Price Free
Publisher European Commission: DG Enterprise and Industry
Publication date 02 March 2011
ISBN 978-92-79-16414-9
Publication synopsis The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) provides an augmentation signal to the Global Positioning System (GPS) Standard Positioning Service (SPS). Presently, EGNOS augments GPS by providing correction data and integrity information for improving positioning and navigation services over Europe. The EGNOS Safety of Life (SoL) Service is provided openly and is freely accessible without any direct charge and is tailored to safety-critical transport applications in various domains, in particular for aviation applications.

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