EUSPA this week announced the full launch of the Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS), which provides an unprecedented increase in positioning accuracy to improve the European Union's Galileo satellite navigation system. The HAS service offers its users high-accuracy positioning information at the level of a few decimetres (<2.5 dm in the horizontal plane). In addition, Galileo HAS has become the first service to provide refinement corrections that are available globally and completely free of charge.
Refinement corrections are transmitted directly by the Galileo signal (E6-B) and also via the Internet. Anyone with a receiver capable of receiving and processing such signals can use them. The corrections will allow users to reduce orbital, clock and other parameter errors for both Galileo and GPS.
The new service offers many opportunities for the development of new technologies and innovations that will find applications in many different fields, such as agriculture, autonomous vehicles or drones.
More information about the launch can be found in the official EUSPA press release and about the service itself in the relevant documentation:
