# Presentation: 216424

## International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG): Supporting activities for GNSS based applications Sh. GadimovaOffice for Outer Space AffairsCGSIC 7th May 2006, Manchester

**International Committee on ****Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG): ****Supporting activities for ****GNSS based applications ****Sh. Gadimova****Office for Outer Space Affairs****CGSIC 7****th**** May 2006, Manchester**

## BACKGROUND

**BACKGROUND**

**1999: Plan of Action of OOSA, following UNISPACE III (A/Conf.184/6)**
**Training module on capacity-building in the use of global positioning and navigation systems in various areas of applications**
**2001: Action Team on GNSS established by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)**

## BACKGROUND

**BACKGROUND**

**2001-2004: Series of UN/USA Regional Workshops and International Meeting of Experts on the Use and Applications of GNSS :**
**August 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Asia and the Pacific;**
**November 2001, Vienna, Austria, for Central and Eastern Europe;**
**April 2002, Santiago de Chile, for Latin America and the Caribbean;**
**July 2002, Lusaka, Zambia, for Africa and Western Asia;**
**November 2002, Vienna, Austria, International Meeting**
**December 2003, Vienna, Austria, International Workshop**
**December 2004, Vienna, Austria, International Meeting**

## BACKGROUND

**BACKGROUND**

**Follow-up projects/initiatives contained in UN document A/AC.105/846**
**Survey and mapping**
**Agriculture and management of natural resources**
**Management of environment and natural disasters**
**Transportation**
**Education and Training**
**2004: Plan of Action of OOSA, following UNISPACE III+5 (A/59/174)**
**Support for the possible establishment of the ICG**
**Follow up to recommendations of workshops and meetings organized by OOSA**

## OOSA 2005 SUPPORT FOR GNSS ACTIVITIES

**OOSA 2005 SUPPORT FOR GNSS ACTIVITIES**

**Support to the regional on-going long-term projects to establish or further develop regional reference frameworks: **
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**SIRGAS, Geocentric Reference System for the Americas **
**EUPOS, European Position Determination System **
**AFREF, African Reference Frame**
**Master’s level GNSS course (with Politechnico di Torino)**
**Promotion of integration of lectures and field work on GNSS in education curriculum and activities of the regional centres**
**Seminar on GNSS: Current status and future developments, CRECTEALC, Brazil campus, August 2005**
**Colombian International Workshop on the Use and Applications of GNSS, Colombia, September 2005**
**UN International Meeting for Establishment of the ICG, December 2005**

## International Committee on GNSS (ICG)

**International Committee on GNSS (ICG)**

**Informal body, established on a voluntary basis for the purpose of promoting cooperation on matters of mutual interest related to: **
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**Civil-satellite based positioning**
**Navigation**
**Timing**
** ****Value-added services**
**System providers, augmentation system providers, international professional associations, and international organizations, including UN-OOSA**
**17 members/observers, including governments, intergovernmental and  nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) **

## International Committee on GNSS (ICG)

**International Committee on GNSS (ICG)**

**It’s directed towards developing nations where there’s a knowledge gap about GNSS and what they can gain from it**
**As “a group of groups” - to encourage the compatibility and interoperability among the GNSS systems, **
**While...**
**Increasing their use to support sustainable development, particularly in the developing countries **

## OOSA 2006 Support for GNSS activities

**OOSA 2006 Support for GNSS activities**

**UN/Zambia/ESA Regional workshop on the applications of global navigation satellite system technologies in sub-Saharan Africa, Lusaka, 26-30 June 2006**
**UN/China/ESA Training course on the applications of GNSS, Beijing, 2007**
**ICG information portal**
**To provide information about the GNSS related activities of ICG members/observers, GNSS applications, training, and the development of regional reference systems**
- _[http://](http://www.unoosa.org/)__[www.unoosa.org](http://www.unoosa.org/)_
**Inside GNSS, **_[http://](http://www.insidegnss.com/)__[www.insidegnss.com](http://www.insidegnss.com/)_
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## Contact Address

**Contact Address**

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**UN Office for Outer Space Affairs**
**P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria**
**Phone: +43 1 260 60 5479**
**Fax: +43 1 260 60 5830**
**Email: ****	**_[sharafat.gadimova@unvienna.org](mailto:sharafat.gadimova@unvienna.org)_
**Web:****	****http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SAP/rs/index.html**

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