Growing NAVIS – EU-SEA Cooperation Action in the field of GNSS

Growing NAVIS (G-NAVIS), a EU-FP7 funded project, has been designed to boost scientific activities and international links of the NAVIS Centre, an International Collaboration Centre for Research and Development on Satellite Navigation Technology in South East Asia. This Centre, opened on 1st October 2010, is located in the Hanoi University of Science and Technology and was set up in the framework of a previous EU-FP7 project. One of Centre goals is to facilitate the cooperation between European and South East Asian Institutions in any aspect of GNSS technology. For this reason, G-NAVIS is carrying on some R&D activities on: algorithms for Multi-GNSS receivers, Precise Point Positioning, and GNSS applications to Intelligent Transport Systems. Some of the results obtained so far are related to the exploitation of the multi-GNSS environment, that is now becoming available in South East Asia, and to the study of the ionosphere, that deserves particular features over Vietnam. In order to promote both the NAVIS Centre and the GNSS technology in the region, G-NAVIS is also organizing many education and awareness activities. The project foresees three international workshops hosted in Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. To maximize the impact of these actions, the G-NAVIS project partners are collaborating with other important players in the region such as the Malaysian National Space Agency (ANGKASA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the Japanese Satellite Positioning Research and Application Center (SPAC). With them G-NAVIS coorganized the 4th Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS in December 2012 and will co-organize the 5 thedition in December 2013 in the premises of HUST. The paper presents the results achieved so far to foster the cooperation between South East Asia and Europe in the field of GNSS.