cross-posted from: europe.pub/post/54802
And what is Galileo supposed to be then?
Submitted 1 week ago by tfm@europe.pub to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: europe.pub/post/54802
And what is Galileo supposed to be then?
It’s the same as GPS (American) or Glonass (Russian). Satellite based positioning, which is vulnerable to jamming. It could also be turned off, just like the others, hence the need for an alternative.
which is vulnerable to jamming
This has, in fact, been a serious problem in the Baltic region, as Russia’s military has been jamming GPS there for some time, and it dicks up navigation for ships and aircraft there.
It’s a satellite based nav system. This would be a new development that is presumably ground based.
Similar to cellphone a-gps with a supplemental unified NLP (network location provider), but beefed-up on a large-scale. This should provide more emitter sources, whitelisting and blacklisting, and dedicated software to help discover bad or rogue emitters.
I’m going off the graphic guessing the “detectors” continuous scanning contributes into a database that users will then subscribe on to; instead of the cellphone makeing the self-processing decisions in NLP software.
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
There’s an already-extant ground-based vessel navigation system, Loran, though I’m sure that it’s possible to improve on it and I have no idea how much of the receiver hardware is still out there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loran-C