Egis to conduct atmospheric study
Eurocontrol has awarded Egis a contract to study ionosphere effects on global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) applications, which are to be widely implemented over Europe in the coming years. Egis, with its partners, will conduct the study over the ‘ECAC’ area in Europe. Variations in solar activity and space weather significantly affect the propagation of electromagnetic signals in the upper layers of the atmosphere or ionosphere, according to Egis. The specific characterisation of the ionosphere effects over the ECAC area, the linkage between solar weather observables and ionosphere disturbances, as well as their impact on aviation applications are to be better investigated in the context of a future multi-signal and multi-constellation environment, it said.
