United Nations/Argentina Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems Organized jointly by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the National Commission for Space Activities Co-organized and co-sponsored by the European Space Agency and the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems Falda Del Carmen, Argentina 19 – 23 March 2018 ABSTRACTS CONTENTS Argentina .................................................................................................................................... 4 1. Advances in the implementation of the UN Resolution on global geodetic reference frame in Argentina ............................................................................................................................ 4 Argentina .................................................................................................................................... 5 2. Hardware in the Loop Test Bed for Distributed Satellite Platform Orbit Control ................. 5 Brazil ........................................................................................................................................... 6 3. Russian-Brazilian SLR and GNSS monitoring stations: operation and recent research activities ................................................................................................................................. 6 Brazil ........................................................................................................................................... 7 4. GNSS infrastructure and services for positionning in Brazil .................................................. 7 Brazil ......................................................................................................................................... 10 5. Response of total electron content (TEC) at Brazilian low latitude to the occurrence of corotating interaction region and high speed streams during low solar activity ................ 10 Brazil ......................................................................................................................................... 12 6. Open-source hardware for GNSS education and research: The case of GNSS reflectometry applied to sea level monitoring ........................................................................................... 12 Brazil ......................................................................................................................................... 13 7. Assessment of real time relative GNSS positioning based on the Brazilian CORS Network 13 China ......................................................................................................................................... 14 8. Beidou high-precision positioning applications in the High Speed Rail industry ................ 14 China ......................................................................................................................................... 15 9. Status and Development Plan of Beidou System and Applications in Transportation ........ 15 Croatia....................................................................................................................................... 16 10. Initiative for concerted international co-operation on collection of GNSS Positioning Environment Data using Low-cost Sensors Networks ......................................................... 16 Ecuador ..................................................................................................................................... 20 11. Use and application of GNSS in the implementation of Navigation Based on Performance (PBN) in Ecuador .................................................................................................................. 20 Egypt ......................................................................................................................................... 22 12. Monitoring of Space Weather using the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) at the Space Weather Monitoring Center (SWMC), Egypt ............................................................. 22 France ....................................................................................................................................... 23 2 13. Training on GNSS and Space Weather in Africa in the framework of a North-South scientific network GIRGEA ................................................................................................... 23 Germany.................................................................................................................................... 24 14. GNSS Technology and ICAO’s “No Country Left Behind” Initiative Strategy for Nepal ....... 24 Italy ........................................................................................................................................... 27 15. Training Activities on GNSS Science and Applications: The ICTP - Boston College Partnership ........................................................................................................................... 27 Japan ......................................................................................................................................... 29 16. Dangers of Spoofing and Anati-SPOOFING SOLUTIONS ...................................................... 29 Latvia ........................................................................................................................................ 30 17. CORS “LatPos” multipurpose State geodetic network ........................................................ 30 Mexico ...................................................................................................................................... 32 18. Instrumentation and Capacity Building for Space Weather Activities: The Mexican Experience ............................................................................................................................ 32 Mexico ...................................................................................................................................... 33 19. Challenges of GNSS in Mexico ............................................................................................. 33 Mexico ...................................................................................................................................... 34 20. Capacity-building activities at CRECTEALC ........................................................................... 34 Mexico ...................................................................................................................................... 35 21. Areas of opportunity for GNSS applications in large-scale projects in Mexico ................... 35 Mexico ...................................................................................................................................... 36 22. Monitoring ionospheric perturbations during solar energetic events using GNSS data ..... 36 Morocco .................................................................................................................................... 37 23. CRASTE-LF’s contribution in GNSS Capacity Building in African French-Speaking Countries ............................................................................................................................................. 37 Paraguay ................................................................................................................................... 39 24. Very Small Aperture Terminal Sub-System .......................................................................... 39 Paraguay ................................................................................................................................... 40 25. GNSS technologies integrated to high altitude ballon payloads and other research applications as a tool for STEAM education in Paraguay..................................................... 40 Paraguay ................................................................................................................................... 42 26. Genesis of the Paraguayan Space Agency: a historical review ............................................ 42 Peru .......................................................................................................................................... 43 27. Space Weather and Conventional Weather for Civil Aviation in Low Latitude ................... 43 3 Spain ......................................................................................................................................... 46 28. GNSS education and promotional opportunities A vision from Spain ................................. 46 Thailand .................................................................................................................................... 47 29. GICGNSS: A university data and post-processing hub for GNSS .......................................... 47 Turkey ....................................................................................................................................... 49 30. GNSS Applications in Turkey ................................................................................................ 49 Venezuela .................................................................................................................................. 51 31. Supporting GNSS Applications in Latin America through SIRGAS reference frame ............ 51 Argentina Advances