GALILEO’S ACCURATE POSITIONING CAPABILITIES WILL BOOST EMERGING FLEET NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES
October 1st, 2010
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
WHILE the launch of satellites for Europe's very own, EUR20 billion global navigation satellite system on October 21 may not have been diaried by European fleet managers and operators, experts say the new, highly accurate global positioning service will eventually change the operating landscape for fleets. Just as soon as technology and telematics can catch up, that is.
With its precise atomic clocks, the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency's (ESA) Galileo system will deliver real-time positioning accuracy down to the metre range, once ...
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