Although the deadline for registration and submission of abstracts has passed, please read this email carefully. If you have ANY interest in getting involved in the “Multi-GNSS Asia” (MGA) projects then p
lease register if you have not already done so (registration is free). I have asked for a week’s extension, till 6 November. See
http://www.multignss.asia/workshop.html. There is no real program yet, just a rough draft indicating the discussion groups on Sunday, and the sessions on Monday.
If you intend to make a short (10-15min) presentation on “GNSS applications” on Monday, please submit an abstract (no longer than 200 words… very general) by 6 November. Please send me the abstract so that I am aware of your interest.
MGA is the organisation planning the workshop, and will be coordinating any QZSS-based projects in the Asia-Oceania area (see Terms of Reference). I am one of the co-chairs of the MGA Steering Committee. As this 2nd workshop will be held in Melbourne, I don’t expect there will be too many participants aside from Japan, and us locals. Hence it is very important that we really make our interest known to our Japanese colleagues, and that we start to plan for joint projects.
While individuals and organisations can come along and participate in project discussions (on Sunday), and to present or listen to presentations (on Monday), the CRC for Spatial Information will be encouraged to represent the spatial sector for any large-scale projects such as those in the “precise positioning” topic area.
I see Australia’s participation being in several areas:
1) Host some multi-GNSS receivers able to track the QZSS signals. About 20 of them will be deployed across the AO area, and data will be sent to the IGS archives. I anticipate GA hosting a few at Australian IGS sites.
2) Demonstrator for “precise positioning” for real-time wide area DGNSS experiments using either the SAIF (RTCA format) or LEX (experimental) downlink signals. Groups (or the CRC-SI) could propose participation at national or state-level CORS networks to test WADGNSS. If you have an interest in WADGNSS or N-RTK, then come along. We will be investigating ways to use the downlink signals to improve accuracy and integrity. We may also be able to propose SSR-RTCM experiments to test RT-PPP.
3) QZSS receiver design experiments, to track either the nav signals (interoperable with GPS & Galileo) or the SAIF/LEX signals (for data decoding of RTCA/RTCM/experimental RT-DGNSS messages).
4) Application areas in LBS, atmospheric sounding, ITS, disaster management, etc, though I think most of these will require experiments to be done also on 1), 2) and 3) above.
If you are attending the workshop, please let me know what you are interested in. If you are going to submit an abstract, send it also to me so that I have an overview of Australia’s participation. Feel free to attend the discussion groups and find out more about how we can engage with our Japanese colleagues. I can assure you that there are many organisations and companies in Japan eager to develop joint projects with Australian partners (& other countries).
I apologise that this workshop program is still rather fluid. I have requested JAXA information on the Japanese participation, and will pass that on as soon as I receive any. Remember, we want this first activity of MGA to really demonstrate Australia’s interest in being an early participant in next generation GNSS experiments and demonstrator projects.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
