EUTERPE stands for EUropean TEst centre for Receiver
Performance Evaluation. Within EUTERPE, satellite navigation
receivers are tested for many different applications
using the
new European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System
EGNOS and in the future Galileo. Indications for the
need of such a test centre are received by ESA everyday
in the form of users requesting information on EGNOS
compatible receivers.
The objective of the centre is twofold:
- provide users with the assessment from an independent
laboratory of the performances of EGNOS receivers available
on the market, and
- support manufacturers by providing a receiver
“statement of compliance.” This will be issued to those
receivers which have been proved, through dedicated testing
at the centre, to be compatible with the European GNSS
infrastructure (EGNOS/GPS compatible, in the first place,
and in the future Galileo compatible).
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