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The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS), or BeiDou-2, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis.
The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS), also named BeiDou-2, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis.


The system has evolved from a regional system called BeiDou-1, and in the first phase will provide high-accuracy positioning services for users in China and its neighbouring regions. The long-term goal is to develop an independent ''global'' navigation satellite network similar to the GPS and GLONASS. <ref name=Chinese_today>[http://www.sinodefence.com/space/spacecraft/beidou2.asp Compass on the Chinese Defence Today website] </ref>
On November 2, 2006, China announced the 2nd generation Chinese navigation system, COMPASS<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_navigation_system COMPASS Navigation system in Wikipedia]</ref>. The system is currently under development evolving from a regional system called BeiDou-1, and in the first phase will provide high-accuracy positioning services for users in China and its neighbouring regions. As of April 2011, eight satellites for Compass have been launched. According to an official report<ref name="Compass-IGSO3">[http://business.globaltimes.cn/industries/2011-04/642763.html ''China completes basic Beidou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System''], 2011-04-10 by Globaltimes.cn</ref>, " ''the eighth Beidou/Compass satellite marks the completion of basic function of Beidou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System'' " .
 
The long-term goal is to develop an independent ''global'' navigation satellite system similar to the GPS and GLONASS.<ref name=Chinese_today>[http://www.sinodefence.com/space/spacecraft/beidou2.asp Compass on the Chinese Defence Today website] </ref>


==COMPASS User Segment==
==COMPASS User Segment==

Revision as of 16:07, 28 July 2011


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Title BeiDou User Segment
Author(s) GMV.
Level Basic
Year of Publication 2011
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The Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS), also named BeiDou-2, is China’s second-generation satellite navigation system capable of providing positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis.

On November 2, 2006, China announced the 2nd generation Chinese navigation system, COMPASS[1]. The system is currently under development evolving from a regional system called BeiDou-1, and in the first phase will provide high-accuracy positioning services for users in China and its neighbouring regions. As of April 2011, eight satellites for Compass have been launched. According to an official report[2], " the eighth Beidou/Compass satellite marks the completion of basic function of Beidou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System " .

The long-term goal is to develop an independent global navigation satellite system similar to the GPS and GLONASS.[3]

COMPASS User Segment

The COMPASS User Segment consists of COMPASS/Beidou user terminals, which receive Compass navigation signals, determine pseudoranges (and other observables) and solve the navigation equations in order to obtain their coordinates. A COMPASS Receiver is a device capable of determining the user position, velocity and precise time (PVT) by processing the signal broadcasted by COMPASS satellites. Any navigation solution provided by a GNSS Receiver is based on the computation of its distance to a set of satellites, by means of extracting the propagation time of the incoming signals traveling through space at the speed of light, according to the satellite and receiver local clocks.[4]

In June 2011, the system has completed the ground segment commissioning, and also the test section of the user terminal development has been completed[5]. There is also an international cooperation in terms of Compatibility and Interoperability between BeiDou and other GNSSs, that will lead to interoperable terminals compatible with other GNSSs.[6]

Applications

GNSS applications are all those applications that use a GNSS signals to collect position, velocity and time information to be used by the application. For instance, the position and velocity provided by a COMPASS user terminal may be used for different kinds of applications (civil, military, scientific) such as:[6]

  • Fishery: Fishermen safety of life, Oceanic and economic security, Protection of marine resources and sovereignty.
  • Disaster Prevention and Mitigation: improvement of rescue response and decision-making capability due to rapid and timely disaster alert, rescue command scheduling and rapid emergency communication.
  • Timing: Beidou/GPS multi-mode time synchronization devices with embedded Beidou/GPS timing module.
  • Transportation: fleet management.
  • Water conservancy.
  • Meteorology.
  • Forest Fire Prevention.
  • Soil Monitoring.
  • Coal Mine Safety Monitoring.


Notes

References

  1. ^ COMPASS Navigation system in Wikipedia
  2. ^ China completes basic Beidou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System, 2011-04-10 by Globaltimes.cn
  3. ^ Compass on the Chinese Defence Today website
  4. ^ J. Sanz Subirana, JM. Juan Zornoza and M. Hernández-Pajares, Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Volume I: Fundamentals and Algorithms
  5. ^ Compass system 10 months to complete a comprehensive test covering the Asia Pacific region next year China news, 20th June 2011.
  6. ^ a b COMPASS Status Presentation, Munich Satellite Navigation Summit March 2011.