Galileo Performances

GALILEO
Title	Galileo Performances
Author(s)	GMV
Level	Basic
Year of Publication	2011

Galileo system is a space-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on a continuous worldwide basis freely available to all.

The Galileo performances are different for each service. For the Galileo Open Service (OS) no specific requirements of integrity are applicable. The performances for horizontal positioning accuracy at 95% for a dual-frequency receiver are 4 m (8 m for vertical accuracy), with an availability of the service of 99%.

In the case of the Galileo Safety of Life (SoL) and the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS), the performance requirements include horizontal and vertical accuracy, integrity, continuity and time to alert for different service levels. The availability of the service should be 99.5% for both services.

Galileo Service Level Perfomances

From Galileo Mission High Level Definition, the performances requirements for each service are the following:

Parameter	Galileo Service Level
	OS				SoL	PRS
	Single-Frequency User (SF)			Dual-Frequency User (DF;E5a/L1)	DF (E5b/L1)	SF		DF (L1/E6)
	E5a	E5b	L1			L1	E6
Lateral accuracy (95%, m)	24	24	15	4	4	15	24	6.5
Vertical accuracy (95%, m)	35	35	35	8	8	35	35	12
Velocity accuracy (95%, m/s)	0.2				0.2	0.2
Timing Accuracy wrt UTC/TAI (ns)	N/A			30	N/A	N/A		100
Horizontal Alarm Limit (m)	N/A				12	N/A		20
Vertical Alarm Limit (m)	N/A				20	N/A		35
Time-To-Alarm (s)	N/A				5.2	N/A		10
Integrity Risk	N/A				2.10-7 / 150s	N/A		2.10-7 / 150s
Continuity Risk	N/A				1-8.10-6 / 15s	N/A		1-8.10-6 / 15s
Availability of Accuracy (%)	99.8				99.8	99.8
Availability of Integrity (%)	N/A				99.5	N/A		99.5
Coverage	Global				Global	Global

The Commercial Service will be a controlled access service operated by Commercial Service Providers, who will make decisions on the offered services: e.g. integrity data, differential corrections for local areas, etc… which will depend on the final characteristics of the other services offered by Galileo.

The Galileo services performances result from the processing of a combination of signals, by the user terminal, under certain nominal environmental conditions (no intentional interference, low multi-path….). It is envisaged that a guarantee will be offered for all applications for which a disruption of service would have significant Safety of Life or economic impacts, i.e. the quality of the Signal In Space will be guaranteed with certain specifications defined in a Interface Control Document, in order to achieve the specified service performance at end-user level.

Combined services performances

Galileo is being designed to be interoperable with other systems and, therefore, it will, in a great many instances, be used as part of a combined service. The identification of combined services is necessary to:

• Meet the most demanding user applications.
• Reduce satellite navigation system weaknesses.
• Provide robust solutions for applications requiring system redundancy for safety and/or security reasons.
• Access future GNSS market.
• Enable and expand new market opportunities.

The most obvious systems to be combined with Galileo are the other existing GNSS systems, GPS,GLONASS, SBAS and GBAS as they share with Galileo many characteristics that facilitate a combination at user level. By combining Galileo with other GNSS systems, improved performance in the following domains can be expected:

• Availability: Using as an example Galileo in combination with GPS and SBAS systems, the number of operational satellites will be in the region of 60. In normal urban environments this would result in an increased availability for 4 satellites from 40% to more than 90%.
• Position Accuracy: Allied to an increased availability in restricted environments (urban) is a better geometry of spacecraft or enhanced positioning performance.
• Integrity: SBAS systems, in addition to generating ranging signals, provide integrity information on GPS and GLONASS. Thus if an application requires the broadcast integrity information of two systems this can be achieved using SBAS. Typically, Safety of Life applications would benefit from this additional service.
• Redundancy: By combining services from separate and fully independent systems full redundancy can be achieved. This is particularly important for Safety of Life applications that require full system backup.