News in 2024
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Coordinated by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the ICG strives to encourage and facilitate compatibility, interoperability and transparency between all the satellite navigation systems, to promote and protect the use of their open service applications and thereby benefit the global community. Essentially the vision of the ICG is to ensure the best satellite-based positioning, navigation and timing for peaceful uses for everybody, anywhere, any time.
FIG, in its role as a long-standing Associate Member of the ICG, was participating in numerous discussions taking place across its four Working Groups - each of which has several Task Forces focussed on specific topics of strategic importance and relevance to the GNSS community. At this point, we would like to acknowledge the generous support from the ICG, of Commission 5’s Reference Frames in Practice (RFIP) workshop held as pre-events to our annual working weeks and congresses, and regularly provides travel support for a number of students and developing member states to attend these Workshops. We are extremely grateful for this assistance, and look forward to continued collaboration during forthcoming FIG events.
Additionally during the ICG-18 Week, the 29th Meeting of the Providers’ Forum was held in which the latest status from the global satellite constellation providers - namely GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BDS, were shared with delegates. Updates were also provided by those member states operating, building or aspiring to their own regional navigation satellite system (RNSS) such as Japan’s QZSS and India’s NavIC. Augmentation systems featured across several Working Groups, with Representatives from Australian and New Zealand presented an update on SouthPAN (Southern Positioning Augmentation Network) covering those regions.
Within the ICG, there are currently four Working Groups as follows.
Between them, Working Group D's Task Forces hosted three sessions on their respective themes comprising seven presentations, focusing mostly on updates regarding global and regional geodetic reference frames. WG-D also held internal discussions on the topic of Lunar PNT and participated actively in the subsequent Joint Session with the other WGs; WG-D noted that these discussions could be extended to other celestial bodies.
Other organisations attending ICG-18 included the International GNSS
Services (IGS), the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the
United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE). In total,
there were more than 180 attendees and 60 presentations across the week.
The next Meeting of the ICG, will be its 19th (ICG-19) and it will be
held in the Republic of Korea in (provisionally) October 2025.
Group Photo of Attendees at the 18th Meeting of the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, 06-11 October 2024, Wellington, New Zealand.
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| FIG Commission 5 Chair, Dr. Ryan Keenan, presenting an update on FIG Activities in 2024, to the ICG-18. | ICG-18 Working Group D - References, Timing and Applications - delegates and co-chairs including FIG Commission 5 Chair Dr. Ryan Keenan. |
Dr. Ryan Keenan
Chair, Commission 5 Positioning and Measurement, FIG
Links:
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/icg/icg.html
October 2024
