Geolocation technologies for aerospace
Presentation
The purpose of this page is to present:
- The different technological solutions for aeronautics geolocation in terms of:
- data transmission
- installation on board of an aircraft
- The advantages and disadvantages of each type of solution
- the magnitudes of the purchase and operating costs (excluding setting costs)
Geolocation principles
- A mobile device (in our case an aircraft) is equipped with a position receiver (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, ...) in order to get its location in three dimensions
- And with a transmitting device to send this position to a ground station
- This ground station sends the location data to a server accessible from the internet network for its use by software solutions including mapping applications to display the position of the aircraft.