Students of the Faculty of Navigation and Space Science at Beni Suef University Implement a System to Increase the Accuracy of Global Positioning Systems
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A team of students from the Faculty of Navigation and Space Science at Beni Suef University, under the supervision of Dr. Mansour Hassan, President of the University, and Dr. Osama Shalabya, Dean of the Faculty, have implemented a system to increase the accuracy of navigation systems on land, sea, and air. All countries in the world are working to develop their own navigation systems to determine locations for air, sea and land use to increase reliability and accuracy at the same time.
Dr. Mansour Hassan explained that a comprehensive system has been developed that relies on building 100 ground stations at a low cost. Each station receives a signal from more than 90 global positioning satellites, which carries information about its location. The station then compares the coordinates it receives with the original coordinates to calculate the difference between them and determine the error in the future coordinates.
The stations then send the correct coordinates to a small satellite that has been designed and a prototype of which has been made. This satellite orbits close to Earth and covers the entire territory of Egypt to improve positioning services there. The satellite receives the dedicated data from the correction station and sends this data to all beneficiaries of this service.
Prototypes have been built that operate at high efficiency from the ground station, the small satellite, and the location correction unit, to serve Egypt's 2030 plan.
Dr. Osama Shalaby, Dean of the Faculty, pointed out that the project was supervised by Dr. Mohamed El-Faran, a lecturer at the Department of Space Navigation, with the participation of 11 students, namely Walaa Hassanein Sayed, Mustafa Ahmed Saadi, Mustafa Gamal, Mohamed Hisham El-Gabaly, Nadine Atef El-Sayed, Nada Nour El-Din, Ahmed Ezz El-Din El-Qadi, Taghreed Hassan Abdel-Sattar, Samar Saleh, Aya Hamed, and Hossam Alaa Kamal.