The IGNSS Society announces that the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 Australian Challenge will run from April 1 to June 30 2011.
The €20,000 grand prize in the 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) went to the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones.
Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, which is Europe’s space based augmentation system for improving the accuracy and reliability of GPS and other global navigation satellite systems such as Europe’s Galileo system.
As well as the overall prize, 21 regional winners and six special topic prizes were awarded by partners from industry and research for the best applications making use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
The IGNSS Society, an Australian based not for profit association providing services such as workshops, conferences, trade exhibitions and awards for excellence programmes will once again run the ESNC Australian Challenge for 2011.
Australia is an advanced user of satellite technologies including Global Navigation Satellite Systems and was amongst the earliest adopters of GPS for mining, agriculture and civil engineering.
Australia’s large land mass and widely separated cities also makes Australia a centre of innovation in the application of GNSS to long haul sea, road, rail and air transport.
The Australian region is well placed to take advantage of the emergence of a system-of-systems based on multiple GNSS and is particularly interested in solutions to the economic, social and environmental issues associated with developing large regional areas with limited infrastructure.
The winner of the ESNC Australian Challenge will be presented with their award at the opening ceremony of the 2011 IGNSS Conference to be held at the University of New South Wales on the 15th November 2011 and will be offered a featured speaker position and promotion at the IGNSS 2011 conference.
The winning Australian idea will also receive exposure in Position Magazine and Spatial Source online, which are published by our media partner, Intermedia.
Anyone with a great idea for a new application in satellite positioning is encouraged to enter their idea when the web based ideas database opens on April 1. Further details can be found at http://www.galileo-masters.eu/index.php?anzeige=howto.html
Alternatively you can email the IGNSS Society at: rob@ignss.org
