Location based services (LBS)

 

Location Based Services (LBS) are by far the largest user of satellite navigation services, and this is not likely to change as we continue to depend upon a growing number of mobile apps for navigation, personal tracking, emergency calling, gaming, advertising, social interaction and general well-being. Almost 3 billion mobile applications currently in use rely on positioning information.

EGNOS improves the accuracy of the GNSS signals used in LBS, mainly by reducing the negative impact of ionosphere on the calculated position. This benefits consumer applications that make use of more accurate location information, especially in remote areas where network-based methods are less effective.

Latest News

Airplane landing with blue sky background
Friday, December 13, 2024

EGNOS has reached an impressive milestone with 1,000 approach procedures now utilising its Satellite-Based Augmentation…

Image of tractors working in the field announcing the new SDD release
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The new Open Service SDD v3.0 introduces…

Latest Documents

Monthly performance report
Thursday, January 09, 2025

This report presents the EGNOS services performance during December 2024. The report contains global results for the reported period,…

EGNOS SDD
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) provides an augmentation signal to the Global Positioning System (GPS)…

Monthly performance report
Monday, December 09, 2024

This report presents the EGNOS services performance during November 2024. The report contains global results for the reported period,…