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published2 hours of agosharecloshare pagecopy linkabout share the shared source of images of Getty, the plans depend on many systems to maintain operational safety

They are particularly useful when giving the plans, additional guarantee in the landing.

This is especially in bad weather. But in the future, they are likely to play an increasing role throughout the transport sector as vehicles become more automated. Trains, ships, trucks, buses and cars without driver will be great beneficiaries.

"An autonomous platform cannot know where it is at 25 m (82 feet); you have to know at least where it is just centimeters," said Todd McDonell, President, Global Inmarsat Government.

"People seem to think that this is just aviation, and that is an obvious necessity, but land transport, maritime sector and agriculture have important needs. "He told BBC News.

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The immarsat system is in a test phase at this time. It is using an aged satellite placed on the Atlantic to transmit the guarantee data.

British partners in the project include Goonhilly Earth Station Limited in Cornwall and GMV NSL, which specializes in the development of positioning, navigation and technologies of time (pnt).

Increase systems are just that: they improve the basic service when verifying the accuracy of the signals and warning users if there are problems of concern. But they are not a replacement for the underlying service.

If Galileo falls, the EU EGNOS system decreases. If the GPS fell, the UKSBAS, the increase system based on the United Kingdom space, would not be available either.

However, such programs are demonstrating to be popular worldwide worldwide.

America, China, Russia, Japan and India perform increased systems. And immalesat has recently been involved in a project to develop one for Australia and New Zealand.

"This has an industrial base opportunity," McDonell said.

"If the United Kingdom could create a sovereign service that produces certain benefits for the United Kingdom, for its economy, agriculture, transport, etc., then there is a Opportunity in terms of recipient development or other applications or technologies, not only for use in the United Kingdom but also for export. "

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