The European Navigation Conference (ENC 2014) will be held 15 – 17 April in the World Trade Center in Rotterdam. A Forum on Resilient Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) will be held on the afternoon of Monday 14 April 2014, immediately preceding the Conference in the same venue.
The background to the event is the increasing reliance on Global Navigation Satellite Systems in all transport sectors and for essential infrastructure throughout Europe and internationally. The need to ensure resilience of systems, particularly for safety of life and commercially sensitive applications is driving interest in methods for improving robustness of systems to interference and the need for integrity monitoring and authentication methods.
The objective of the Forum is to bring together organizations with an interest in positioning, navigation and timing, to prepare a strategy for achieving resilient PNT in support of activities across all sectors.
Programme
1400-1405 Welcome from Prof K Czaplewski, Chairman of EUGIN Council
1405-1410 Introduction to Forum from Dr Nick Ward
1410-1420 Statement from President of IAIN
1420-1430 Statement from Deputy Secretary General of IALA
1430-1500 Keynote address from Prof David Last
1500-1515 Statement from Dana Goward, Resilient Navigation & Timing Foundation
1515-1545 Break
1545-1600 Discussion – Introduction, Nick Ward
1600-1615 Need for Resilient PNT
1615-1630 Strategy for Resilient PNT
1630-1645 Plan of action
1645-1700 Conclusions
Note:
There is no charge for this event, but those wishing to attend are invited to register their interest with the organisers (nick.ward@gla-rrnav.org)