The planned European navigation system Galileo which will make metre-exactly detectable from 2011 positions on the earth should be utilised after the traffic use.

The centrum for satellite navigation Hessen (Cesah) has introduced in addition on Thursday in the Darmstadt Esa-satellite controlling centre the first promising uses. If a satellite-supported flood warning, an interactive guide belongs to it for documenta in Kassel as well as a software platform to the capture and to the exchange of geodata on mobile final devices. The uses some to itself to benefit that the Galileo system is more exact around a multiple than the American Worldwide Positioning currently usable system (GPS). Die Anwendungen manchen sich zu Nutze, dass das Galileo-System um ein Vielfaches genauer ist als das derzeit nutzbare amerikanische Global Positioning System (GPS).

Thus the Darmstadt company Eeta_max space to the prototypes of the so-called "g WaLe system" (Galileo Supported Measurement of Water has introduced level) which should warn in flood to threatened areas about rising water level recorders. The system disposes of a row of mobile, swimming Galileo receivers with whom divergences of the water level recorder can be grasped. As soon as the water level recorder becomes critical, the system alarms the responsible places and can warn even affected local residents directly. Sobald der Wasserpegel kritisch wird, alarmiert das System die zuständigen Stellen und kann sogar betroffene Anwohner direkt warnen.
[via handelsblatt.com]