Posted on: November 05, 2015
The MAGNIFIC Project funded by the GSA under Horizon 2020 held its first “European GNSS Applications Conference in Africa” in Lomé (Togo) on 22nd and 23rd September.
The Ministry of High Education and Research and the President of the University of Lomé participated to this conference as well as representatives from the EC, the GSA, the ASECNA and from the Joint Programme Office. The conference focussed on EGNOS and Galileo applications notably for airport vehicles and aviation, oil exploration, water resources management as well as Search and Rescue.
MAGNIFIC is a 2 years project (2015-2017) coordinated by Pildo Labs and Thales Alenia Space. MAGNIFIC proposes to demonstrate to African Stakeholders the benefits of EGNOS and Galileo by means of 6 field trials in Africa.