ESA Director addresses ‘Galileo Application Days’ conference

In his opening address at the ‘Galileo Application Days 2010’ conference in Brussels Rene Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation related Activities, presented ‘unconventional Galileo applications’ – those related to topics other than positioning, navigation and timing.

Galileo and Global Navigation Satellite Navigation Systems (GNSS) can contribute to improved weather forecasts, fight against product piracy, synchronise and monitor power networks, determine Earth’s gravity field, monitor climate and global sea level rise, passively sense ice and the sea surface, monitor soil moisture fluctuations, detect atmospheric waves generated by earthquakes and tsunamis, and open new areas in space-time metrology – to highlight just a few of the unconventional and scientific applications. We are at the beginning of a new era.

“… Galileo applications are not limited by technology, they are limited only by our imagination!”

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