Trial Operations Commence for China's Beidou Navigation Service Platform
China's Beidou navigation service platform has commenced its trial operations. This initiative marks a significant advance in the country's satellite navigation capabilities, aiming to provide more precise positioning services both domestically and internationally. As the system enters its testing phase, it is expected to enhance navigation accuracy and support various applications across different sectors.
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China's Beidou high-precision navigation and positioning service platform has recently begun trial operations, marking a significant advance in the nation's autonomous satellite navigation abilities, officials from the National Geomatics Center of China announced in Chongqing on Thursday.
The platform, directed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, combines satellite navigation and positioning base stations from across the country's natural resources system, thereby fostering the growth of the digital economy.
The system unifies over 3,300 base stations into a single network, providing centralized control over these resources.
Offering dependable, high-precision positioning services throughout the nation, the network supports various sectors. These include public welfare mapping, resource surveying, intelligent transportation, autonomous driving, precision agriculture, and social governance.
Services on the platform are accessible both online and offline. While online access provides real-time observation data and improved positioning services, the offline mode supplies coordinate results, data files from post-event observations, and other related products.
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was launched in 1994, with BDS-1 and BDS-2 systems completed in 2000 and 2012, respectively. The completion and operationalization of BDS-3 on July 31, 2020, positioned China as the third nation globally to possess an independent global navigation satellite system.
(Cover image: Diagram of China's BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System constellation network. /BDS)
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The platform, directed by the Ministry of Natural Resources, combines satellite navigation and positioning base stations from across the country's natural resources system, thereby fostering the growth of the digital economy.
The system unifies over 3,300 base stations into a single network, providing centralized control over these resources.
Offering dependable, high-precision positioning services throughout the nation, the network supports various sectors. These include public welfare mapping, resource surveying, intelligent transportation, autonomous driving, precision agriculture, and social governance.
Services on the platform are accessible both online and offline. While online access provides real-time observation data and improved positioning services, the offline mode supplies coordinate results, data files from post-event observations, and other related products.
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was launched in 1994, with BDS-1 and BDS-2 systems completed in 2000 and 2012, respectively. The completion and operationalization of BDS-3 on July 31, 2020, positioned China as the third nation globally to possess an independent global navigation satellite system.
(Cover image: Diagram of China's BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System constellation network. /BDS)
Alejandro Jose Martinez for TROIB News
