Welcome to the Internet Homepage of the APEC Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Implementation Team (GIT). We thank the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of the Republic of Korea (KCASA) and Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), who kindly opened the homepage.

The APEC Transportation Working Group addresses safety and security across all modes of transportation including environmental consideration, and its initiatives include the implementation of satellite navigation within the region. A Satellite Navigation & Communications Systems (SN&C) Advisory Committee was established by the Transportation Working Group and in March 2000, agreed to form a group of experts to make recommendations to assist APEC Economies with GNSS implementation. The group's mission was to promote implementation of regional GNSS augmentation systems to enhance inter-modal transportation and recommend actions to be considered by the SN&C Advisory Committee. The experts group aimed to assist economies implement GPS as a supplemental and/or primary means of navigation for all phases of flight.

In order to further develop inter-modal initiatives by creating a regional satellite test bed, the SN&C Advisory Committee at its meeting held in April 2001 recommended that a GNSS Implementation Team (GIT) be formed. Recommendation was adopted at the Transportation Working Group in March 2002. In order to streamline the APEC structure, the SN&C was dissolved in August 2004.

The GIT investigates the feasibility of multimodal GNSS implementation, which will provide operational and financial benefits to all modes of transportation in the APEC region, and identifies measures to facilitate GNSS implementation in the region within the framework of a regional approach, complementing, but not duplicating, the work of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The GIT also provides a public/industry forum to address GNSS related issues that will benefit the APEC region by providing a regional approach within a global framework to a safe, secure, efficient, and financially sound multimodal transportation system. Since its first meeting held in February 2002, the GIT met nine times. The 9th GIT meeting was held in April 2006.

The recent GIT activities include implementation of GNSS regional test beds, funded by the United States. The GNSS regional test beds will evaluate GNSS augmentation capability in the region; collect empirical GNSS data and analyze equatorial atmospheric effects on GNSS performance; allow participating economies to attain a hand-on working experiences with GNSS equipment; allow participating economies to refine and validate GNSS performance over their Flight Information Regions (FIR); and establish a stage for regional research collaboration for the Asia/Pacific.