International Symposium
on
Certification of GNSS Systems & Services
- CERGAL 2010 -
Rostock, Germany
28 - 29 April 2010
Call for Papers
jointly organised by the
German Institute of Navigation
-Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation e.V. (DGON)-
and
ITS Niedersachsen / GAUSS
-GNSS Applications and Users in the domain of Safety & Security-
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In co-operation with
| Network for Maritime Applications | Forschungshafen Rostock | |
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Introduction
Qualification and certification for mission and safety critical applications are major cornerstones in the successful operational roll-out of Satellite Navigation systems like GPS/EGNOS and Galileo.
Key differentiators of systems like Galileo are e.g. certifiability of the system / signals and service guarantees for the users. These differentiators are important drivers for potential revenues and resulting business cases.
The main challenge in the certification of EGNOS and Galileo is that there is no single standard against which it can be certified, as the final application certification needs to be against the standards relevant for the individual application domain.
Another challenge in the successful implementation and use of EGNOS and Galileo is the lead time for certification of mission and safety critical applications. A timely success of Galileo will require a reduction in lead times for certification.
The European Commission is in charge of certification processes for the signal-in-space based on the system safety cases.
The User Communities’ safety regulation / certification authorities are in charge of certification and approval of operations and equipment to support these operations based on application specific safety cases.
Each of these user domains relies on their specific certification authorities that grant operational approval following different sets of rules, guidelines, and interests.
In this context CERGAL concentrates on the measures already established and future activities which will demonstrate that all provisions are implemented which assure SATNAV systems certification and operational safety.
Special focus of CERGAL 2010 will be directed towards Maritime and Inland Waterways applications and GNSS Testing Infrastructure.
CERGAL has been established as cross-border information exchange and discussion platform for system and application developers, operators, approval authorities and users.
Technical Sessions and Programme Committee
Chairman: Jürgen Seybold, NavCert GmbH
Co-Chairman: Harry H. Evers, GZVB e.V.
GNSS System Aspects
Kenneth Kvinnesland, DNV, NO
Richard Peckham, EADS Astrium, UK
GNSS Simulation, Testing Tools and Infrastructure
John Pottle, Spirent, UK
Jürgen Seybold, NavCert, GE
Aviation Applications
Eric Chatre, EC, BE
Peter Hecker, TU-BS, GE
Maritime Applications
Christoph Amlacher, VD, AT
Stig Erik Christiansen, KSX, NO
Road Applications
Karsten Lemmer, DLR, GE
Marko Jandrisits, ASFINAG, AT
Rail Applications
George Barbu, UIC, FR
Eckehard Schnieder, TU-BS, GE
Special Applications
Andreas Bauch, PTB, GE
Gjalt Loots, TNO, NL
Technical Exhibition
Manufacturers and developers of equipment, components, software and services complementing the topics of the symposium are invited to display state-of-the-art hardware, software and services. The exhibition will be held in the conference area. For further information, potential exhibitors are requested to complete and return the attached reply form.
Language
The symposium language will be English.
Contributions
Authors are invited to submit papers on any of the above topics for consideration by the Programme Committee.
An abstract of about 500 words (in electronic form) should be submitted to the
German Institute of Navigation (DGON)
attn.: Symposium Co-ordinator “CERGAL 2010" Reinhold Thierse
e-mail: dgon.bonn@t-online.de
by 30th November 2009
The cover page of submitted abstracts must include:
– Title of paper / contribution with indication of relevant topic
– Name(s) of presenting author and co-authors
– Organisation / company (if applicable)
– Mailing address
– Phone and Fax numbers
– E-mail address.
Authors will be notified of accepted / rejected papers by
31st December 2009.
The conference fee for presenting authors will be reduced considerably.
Suspense Dates
Submission of abstracts: 30th November 2009
Notification of authors: 31st December 2009
Distribution of programme: 29th January 2010
Submission of full paper
for the proceedings at the symposium.
General
Authors who wish to present papers at the symposium are requested to complete the attached form and return it to the address below or register electronically at http://www.dgon.de
German Institute of Navigation
Kölnstraße 70
D-53111 Bonn, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)228-20197.0
Fax: +49-(0)228-20197.19
e-mail: dgon.bonn@t-online.de
Internet: http://www.dgon.de
Co-operation Partner
Network for Maritime Applications
Internet: http://www.netmaritime.de
POC
Dipl.-Kffr. Silvia Westland
Manager of the Network for Maritime Applications
EADS RST
Rostock System-Technik GmbH
Friedrich-Barnewitz-Straße 9
D-18119 Rostock, Germany
Phone: +49-(0)381 56 - 524
Mobile: +49 (0)171 714 63 64
e-mail : s.westland@rst-rostock.de
