GPS World, December 2017

DIRECTIONS 2018 and integrated data industries BDS has been applied in the transportation logistics emergency rescue marine fishing and other fields which has greatly improved production efficiency reduced resource consumption and lowered pollution For example benefiting from the BDS applications in traffic management industry the number of major accidents has decreased by 467 and the death toll has been reduced by 489 With BDS based maritime applications more than 10000 lives have been saved BDS GNSS augmentation services have been applied to precision agriculture land mapping monitoring on deformation and displacement of large scale public facilities and earthquake and geological hazard measurement and survey the latter has provided important monitoring for public safety As a result the production of precision agriculture has increased by 5 and the oil consumption by agricultural machinery has decreased by 10 The time for surveying and mapping of national land is shortened from a few days to several seconds BDS has been fully put into mass applications BDS based navigation services have been adopted by various enterprises such as Huawei ZTE Baidu Autonavi Alibaba JD and others in the fields of manufacturing of mobile and smart terminals locationbased services LBS e commerce and so on BDS based LBS have been widely applied in the mass consumption sector and peoples livelihood and many innovative applications have emerged such as caring for seniors and children shared vehicles BDS based logistics and so on which have been changing peoples lives and providing more convenience for the public International Development At present BDS has covered more than 50 countries and more than 3 billion people BDS related products have gained access to the markets of more than 70 countries and regions more than 30 of which are along the land based Belt and maritime Road in line with the Belt and Road Initiative Through joint applications with other compatible navigation satellite systems BDS provides global users with diversified choices for better application experience Meanwhile the iGMAS has contributed to the implementation of the Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization project iGMASInternational GNSS Service Pilot experimental project and Sino 18 GPS WORLD WWW GPSWORLD COM DECEMBER 2017 Russian monitoring and assessment cooperation and has provided GNSS users with authentic thirdparty assessment results China continuously pushes forward BDS to be recognized by the ICAO International Maritime Organization IMO mobile communication standard Partnership Project and other organizations to serve the world in line with international conventions In October three PRN codes which are essential to the development of BDSBAS were assigned the SBAS service provider identifier and UTC standard identifier have been assigned to BDSBAS by ICAO which marks BDSBAS an official SBAS provider in the ICAO family and lays the foundation for the follow up construction of BDSBAS as well as its provision of standard navigation services for the civil aviation sector In March a multi system including GPS BDS and GLONASS ship borne receiver standard was approved by the IMO BDS has also been included in the PNT guidelines of maritime applications In the field of mobile communication 26 technical standards that support the BDS positioning function have been adopted by the third and fourthgeneration mobile communication standard Partnership Projects Future Plans BDS will keep improving its continuous stability and service accuracy Two more BD 2 replacement satellites will be launched in 2018 ensuring its regional service performance will be remain stable and be enhanced Eighteen BD 3 MEO satellites and one BD 3 GEO satellite will be launched by around the end of 2018 Upon the deployment of those 19 satellites BD 3 will possess the initial Liftoff of the first pair of the BD 3 MEO satellites on Nov 5 2017 See BEIDOU page 27