United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Activities of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems: Promoting the Use of GNSS technologies

 

2009 Activities

Satellite Navigation and Science for Africa, 23 March  - 9 April, 2009, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

• Website (external link): http://www.ictp.it/
• Lecture Notes (available in PDF format in English only)

Training Course on Establishment of GNSS Permanent Stations and Data Processing, 24 August  - 4 September, 2009, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMPRD), Nairobi, Kenya

• Website (external link): http://www.rcmrd.org/
• Programme

Training Course on Satellite Navigation and Location Based Services, 28 September  - 24 October, 2009, African Centre for Space Science and Technology - in French Language (CRASTE-LF), Rabat, Morocco

• Website (external link): http://www.enssup.gov.ma/craste/
• Registration Form (available in RTF format in French only)
  
• Provisional Programme (available in PDF format in French only)
  

Training Course on the Use of GNSS for Development, 16 - 20 November, 2009, Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRECTEALC), Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico

• Information Note (available in PDF format in English only)
  
• Application Form (available in PDF format in English only)

2008 Activities

Report by the Secretariat on Activities carried out in 2008 in the framework of the workplan of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (A/AC.105/922)

• Arabic (PDF format)
  
• Chinese (PDF format)
• English (PDF format)
• French (PDF format)
• Russian (PDF format)
• Spanish (PDF format)

 

12th International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy, 18 - 24 May, 2008, Crete, Greece

• Website (external link): http://isea12.physics.uoc.gr/
• UNOOSA presentation: Powerpoint Presentation (available in PDF format in English only)

 

Combined AFREF, Africa Array, IHY, AMMA-GPS Meeting, 17 - 19 June 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa

• Programme (PDF file, English only)
  

International Training Course on Satellite Navigation and Location Based Services, 18 June - 18 July 2008, Ahmedabad, India

• Announcement (available in PDF format in English only)
• Website (external link): http://www.sac.gov.in
• Report on the International Training Course on Satellite Navigation and Location Based Services (available in PDF format in English only)

 

ICG Expert Meeting on GNSS Systems and Services, 15 July 2008, Montreal, Canada

• Information Note (available in PDF format in English only)
• Registration Form (available in MSWord format in English only)
• Online presentations

 

 

2007 Activities

Changements Climatiques et Adaptation en Afrique : Le Rôle des Technologies Spatiales, Alger (Algérie) les 22, 23 et 24 octobre 2007

• Presentations
  • The United Nations and GNSS: Building a System of Systems
    Sharafat GADIMOVA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs)
  • Positioning by satellite: a support to climate change adaptation - application for environmental risk
    Salem KAHLOUCHE (Algerian Space Agency, Algeria)
  • The measurement techniques of the atmospheric parameters by GPS
    Hassen AMMOR (Mohamadia Engineering School, Morocco)
  • GNSS, System of systems: geodesic contribution for extra-geodesic applications
    El Hassan BENAIM (Agronomy and Veterinary Institute, Morocco)
• Annonce Preliminaire (PDF format, French version only)