New EGNOS Data Access Services
Recently, the European Commission has declared available for EU users the new EGNOS Data Access Service (EDAS).
EDAS, a service offered by EGNOS, is the real-time, internet-based EGNOS data-access service. EDAS is the single point of access for the data collected and generated by EGNOS; as such it gives high-precision service providers a new chance to increase their range of services, to the benefit of professional sectors such as oil and gas, geodesy, mining and construction and also the public at large in terms of location based applications.
The technical development activities were carried out in 2006 and 2007 by a GMV-led consortium of companies under a European Commission contract supervised by the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), formerly called the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU), and the European Space Agency (ESA). In the development of EDAS, GMV has provided the technological base for implementation of the commercial data distribution service of EGNOS, representing an important first step towards the development of commercial applications based on the distribution of EGNOS products.
EDAS service has been provided in beta phase since 2009 and was officially declared available to EU users by the EC on 26 July 2012. ESSP, the EGNOS Services Provider, is in charge of the EDAS service provision.
Since 2006 GMV has been developing new services and maintaining the EDAS system. In 2011 ESSP contracted GMV to implement new EDAS services under a final contract with the European Commission; these services include the following:
- FTP Service: with which historical EGNOS and EDAS data can be downloaded in a large variety of standard formats
- SISNeT Service: under which the EGNOS message can be provided in real time by internet using ESA’s protocol called SISNeT
- Ntrip Service: under which GNSS data from the EGNOS network of reference stations is broadcast in real time by means of the Ntrip protocol.
- Data filtering service, for users interested in receiving data only from a given geographical group of EGNOS stations.
These services, born from the European Commission’s strategy to improve EGNOS services, were officially declared available to EU users by EC on April 10th 2013.