The international relief of the symposium is underlined by institutional accomplishments and high-level corporate participations.

The industry world is represented by some of the most cutting-edge companies in the several sectors of satellite telecommunications and services: Eutelsat (main sponsor of the event), OpenSky, Space Engineering, GM Spazio, Novotronik, Coilcraft, Avanti Technology, Flyby, ESOA, Asaspazio, Northrop Grumann, Antech, Telesat Ghana, Telespazio, SES, Sematron, Thales Alenia Space, Nereus, Selex Galileo, Selex Elsag.

Several endorsements have been granted by European and Italian Institutions: Patronage of the European Commission, Alto Patronato del Presidente della Repubblica, Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Agenzia per la diffusione delle tecnologie per l’Innovazione della Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Confindustria Digitale, Regione Lazio, Comune di Roma.

Togheter with the approximately two hundred Papers selected by the Technical Committee, ESTEL Conference Programme includes twenty Invited and Keynote Lectures by international

personalities, a Special Track on Galileo Navigation System and Applications promoted by the European GNSS Agency and a Security and Privacy Special Track coordinated by the University of Milan.

www.estelconference.org/program-outline/

On the 2^nd of October, as a starter to the Conference opening, a free visit to the Fucino Control Centre will be offered by Telespazio. Including transfers, guided tour and a lunch buffet, the visit will display one of the most important space centres in the world for civilian use, hosting 100 antennas on an extension of 370,000 square meters.

The official Gala Dinner and Show will take place on Thursday 4th October at Teatro Centrale Carlsberg. Located in the heart of Rome, this historical building owes its unique atmosphere to the careful restoration based on natural flavours from the local territories, associated to Italian traditional music and a qualified staff. The soirée will host the prize-giving for the Best Student Paper Award and for the overall Best Paper Award.

The Organizing Local Committee also selected some of the most charming guided tours amongst those offered by the prestigious Tour Operator “The Grand Tour”. Professional tourist guides will conduct ESTEL Conference participants on thematic tours including the most famous as well as the undiscovered beauties of the eternal city.

For registrations click on “Social events” on www.estelconference.org  or ask info to: organization@promospace.org

The study addresses the needs of two main stakeholders: Fisheries and Sea Authorities (enforcement). Fisheries involved so far are those making coastal fishing with small-size boats. Such fleets of relatively small vessels are recognized by the Common Fisheries Policies as the best suited to perform fishing in a sustainable manner, because of their limited impact on the sea environment. The need for better product traceability, better market prices, lower operational cost and reduction of illegal an unregulated fishing represents therefore a common ground between both stakeholders. FISHSAT can build on this, through an innovative integration of space assets with conventional information and communication technologies.
The FISHSAT feasibility study aims at designing, developing and validating a first basic prototype of a distributed system (onboard & onshore) that provides information services for more efficient, more compliant and more sustainable fishing. The study will also identify the viability (including legal, political, financial, technical, operational aspects) and define the business roadmap for the implementation of the FISHSAT system and its associated services towards acceptance and commercialization.

By placing sensors onboard and by adopting new technologies (or by integrating with existing ones like e.g. AIS, e-logbook, satellite & terrestrial communication links), FISHSAT intends to deliver new information for use by fisheries (e.g. improve competitiveness, allow for effective market strategy) and by Sea Authorities (e.g. more insight on boat activities, higher possibility to plan interventions). Some examples: EO imagery will be used to assess most productive areas in order to reach the same yield with less effort; traceability will be completed onboard through reporting, weighing and labeling thus giving a product ready for sales while still at sea; the augmented set of data (reported and sensed) will allow to build a new comprehensive Quality Mark in which besides “Who”, “What”, “When” and “Where” will be specified also “How” (e.g. gear used, controls undergone). This last feature accounts not only for product shape and healthiness, but also for environment friendliness.

The last part of the afternoon session will be dedicated to companies and enterprises, with presentations concerning the specific applications developed for Galileo Project.
The Galileo Special Session is sponsored by Thales Alenia Space and Selex Galileo.

Download the participation form and join the special session: http://www.estelconference.org/dem/promo/Galileo_Participation_Form.pdf

The scheduled program:

 Morning Session 11.40 a.m – 1.20 p.m.

• Opening Speech and Moderator: Gian Gherardo Calini, Head of the Market Development Department – European GNSS Agency
• Aviation Area: Okko Bleeker, Director European R&D – Rockwell Collins
• Maritime Area: Pierpaolo Campostrini General Director – Corila
• Rail Area: Francesco Rispoli, Responsabile Sistemi Satellitari e Rail TLC Innovation & Competitiveness Dpt. – Ansaldo STS
• Road Area: Antonella di Fazio, Program Manager Innovative Application & Pre Operational Services GNSS, Infomobility Unit – Telespazio

Afternoon Session 2.30 – 3.00 p.m.

• Agriculture Area: Klaus-Herbert Rolf, Marketing Manager – CLAAS Agrosystems
• Mapping Area: Jean-Yves Pirlot, President – CLGE
• Enterprises’ Paper presentations 3.00 – 6.30 p.m.

Moderator: Marco Lisi, GNSS Services Engineering Manager – ESA, Navigation Directorate; Special Advisor to the Vice President of the European Commission Antonio Tajani

This special session has been designed as a forum for discussing those security and privacy issues that need to be investigated for providing advanced services, architectures, and technologies for space and satellite applications. In this context, it is of utmost importance to ensure proper protection to such complex systems, or systems-of-systems, to ensure security, privacy, and availability of the infrastructure as well as of resources and information. These aspects concern both the specific satellite applications and infrastructure as well as the base stations and land data servers and communications that serve them, touching then the different areas of ICT. The criticality and social impact of the applications and services relying on this global infrastructure will be a matter of interest, togheter with the complexity given by the co-existence and co-operation of the possibly heterogeneous component systems.

All the topics of the special track and all information about the Call for Papers are available at http://www.estelconference.org/security-and-privacy-special-track-announced-submit-your-paper-by-july-15th/. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings, and the authors will have full access to the Conference.

Northrop Grumman Italia, will provide the EFINS inertial navigation system and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver for the Eurofighter aircraft in all of the programme’s participating nations, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain.

The new contract is valued at 30 million euros and builds on Northrop Grumman’s extensive experience with the Eurofighter programme spanning more than 20 years as a supplier for all three tranches of the programme. Northrop Grumman Italia has delivered a total of more than 400 inertial navigation systems for Tranche 1 and 2 of the Eurofighter.

Based on high-accuracy fibre-optic gyro technology, Northrop Grumman’s inertial navigation system and complementary GPS receiver incorporate state-of-the-art features, such as Selective Availability/Anti-Spoofing Module architecture and an anti-jam antenna system. Also, the GPS unit supports future enhancements such as digital maps and direct drive display, which utilizes a graphics processor capable of directly controlling the aircraft’s multifunction displays for improved viewing and integration in the aircraft’s avionics.

(Source: www.northropgrumman.com)

NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION ITALIA SARA’ PRESENTE AD  ESTEL

Meanwhile, with the next Galileo launch approaching, ESA has expanded its Radio Navigation Laboratory (RNL) to meet the testing needs of Europe’s GNSS program.

Launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur (Kazakhstan) space center on December 28, 2005, the first Galileo IOV-Element spacecraft performed the vital task of securing the radio frequencies provisionally set aside for Galileo by the International Telecommunications Union. Its design, production, and launch were conceived and executed on a short timeline when the larger, more complex satellite — subsequently designated GIOVE-B — fell behind schedule.

ESA formally ended GIOVE-A’s mission at the end of June, although it will continue operations under prime contractor Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd of Guildford, United Kingdom, gathering radiation data and performance results from a GPS receiver.

In addition to securing the swaths of RF spectrum needed for the GNSS program, GIOVE-A flight-tested atomic clocks and other equipment in space for the first time and investigated the radiation environment of medium-altitude orbits, never used before by a European mission.

“GIOVE-A had a design life of only 27 months; so, to continue operating for 78 months is impressive,” said Valter Alpe, managing GIOVE activities for ESA.

(Source: www.rivistageomedia.it)

In the Documents section you will find essays, articles, research papers, audio/video materials, general contents concerning the 5 Macro-Areas and abstracts of the papers to be presented at the Conference in October 2012.
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