TELEMIL
In 1999, EDISOFT received the Ministry of Defence and the Portuguese Army's confidence to continue the implementation of a research and development project known as TELEMIL that made available telematic systems for health services, allowing the sharing and transfer of all necessary information to provide remote consulting and conferences.
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CINCAT
EDISOFT was involved with Capacity Increase through Computer Assistance Tools (CINCAT), a development project of software tools for air traffic management, allowing increased air space capacity in the en-route flight phase.
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DAFUSA
EDISOFT participated in the Data Fusion for Airports (DAFUSA) Project and the development of a simulator interacting with Ground Movement Control Systems.
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DAVINCI
EDISOFT gave a valuable contribution to the Departure and Arrival Integrated Management System for Cooperative Improvement (DAVINCI) of airport traffic flow, whose main objective is to demonstrate the integration and co-ordination of Airport Traffic Management Systems.
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ESTEEM
EDISOFT was deeply involved in the Elaboration of a Strategy for the Transition from EATCHIP phase III to the European air traffic Management system (ESTEEM), a transition strategy project aiming the evolution to the future European Air Traffic Management System.
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CASH
EDISOFT is now participating in one of the most interesting projects of the European Commission, the CASH project, a research and technical acquisition programme for aeronautical small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to the benefit of the European Community's supply chain. EDISOFT's task assignment began in June 2001 and is directed to the Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) and Maintenance Centred Reliability (MCR) areas. To EDISOFT, this project teaches a lesson on survival in the world of concurrent engineering, with the assessment and validation of new common ways of working standards processes, methods and tools.
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EUMETSAT LANDSAF
Sponsored by the EUMETSAT, project LANDSAF referred to the meteorological Satellite Applications Facility (SAF) on the Land surface analysis to determine the biospheric parameters, an information to be collected, processed and distributed to the international community.
The project's main goal is to increase the benefits of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) and of the EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) data gathering of land, land-atmosphere interaction and biosphere applications. EDISOFT's participation in this international consortium programme, led by the Portuguese Meteorological Institute, began in June 2000 and held the responsibility of LANDSAF's Engineering part, with a focus in the implementation of the Software Requirements Document, of the Architectural Design Document and the preliminary analysis of the Detailed Design Document; likewise, EDISOFT provided its know-how to the creation of an Algorithm Plug-In Interface (APID) and a Software Verification and Validation Plan. Currently, EDISOFT is involved with the development of the system's prototype.
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PPF
Today, as a partner of the LusoSpace consortium, EDISOFT is in charge of the development of test tools and of the testing and validation activities for the Product Processing Facility (PPF). The PPF is an element of the EPS Core Ground Segment and pertains to the Global Navigation Satellite Receiver Atmospheric Sounder or IASI. The PPF enables the telemetry data (NOAA e Metop) processing into products that can be interpreted by end users.
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SANARIS
Another European Commission's research and development project brightened since November 2000 with EDISOFT's involvement was the SAtellite Network for NAtural RISks Monitoring or SANARIS project framework. Its goal was to develop a software application for natural risks' monitoring, using a flexible satellite communications system for data acquisition on remote location points - the project was evaluated through volcano monitoring. EDISOFT was responsible for the development of a web client as a remote front-end for the application.
Under the aegis of the European Commission, SANARIS presents as its main objective the provision of a flexible communication system for telemetry and telecontrol applications requiring portability and fast deployment of remote acquisition points.
This objective was attainable through the efficient design of all elements used in the remote terminals: a network of remote data acquisition points was thus linked to an Application Control Centre by means of a Satellite Communications System, itself constituted by an application part, encompassing data acquisition terminals, the Application Control Centre and the local/remote use terminals, and a Communication Service Provision segment, responsible for providing a data communications service for the control, monitoring and data acquisition of the application network formed by the Application Control Centre and the set of Data Acquisition Terminals.
To the SANARIS programme, EDISOFT's contribution was the responsibility for the application in the validation project, namely deriving requirements for the application, developing the data dissemination via the Internet application and installing the data dissemination software. Additionally, EDISOFT participated in the SANARIS framework Business Plan.
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POLARIS
The POLARIS programme, under the aegis of the European Commission, exhibits a goal of providing a software tool that intends to provide the link between the GALILEO System design and users, allowing these to recreate real environments using 2D and 3D maps. In this programme, and from January 2002, EDISOFT undertakes the responsibility of developing the 3D subsystem.
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EGNOS
Within the context of the European Space Agency (ESA) EGNOS or European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service programme, Europe's global navigation system, EDISOFT delivered, since May 2000, a technical service to Alcatel Space Industries that embraced the support to the analysis of algorithm design, technical follow-up and tests with the EGNOS End-To-End Simulator (EGNOS SAA). With respect to the EGNOS programme, EDISOFT is currently under a contract with Alcatel Space Industries for the technical support on assembly, integration and validation activities at the Central Processing Facility (CPF).
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RIMS
With respect to Europe's global navigation system project, EDISOFT became Indra Espacio S.A.'s strategic partner in March 2001 for the development of the Range and Integrity Monitoring System (RIMS) that includes the development of the test tools consisting on two simulators. This project uses the satellite navigation signal of GLONASS and GPS but intends to frame the European contribution to the Global Navigation Satellite System, which aims to guarantee the availability of navigation signals for aeronautical, maritime and land mobile trans-European network applications.
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EGNOS - CPF
With respect to the EGNOS programme, EDISOFT is currently under a contract with Alcatel Space Industries for the technical support on assembly, integration and validation activities at the Central Processing Facility (CPF).
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GALILEO Phase B2
In the last quarter of 2001, EDISOFT signed separate contracts with Indra Espacio S.A., with GMV and with Astrium UK related to project GALILEO Phase B2. The first service is related to the Search and Rescue (SAR), Ground Control System (GCS) and GALILEO Mission Segment (GMS) modules within the scope of the GALILEO programme; the second assignment involves the orbit determination and time synchronization (OD&TS) activities as well as the System's Performance Analysis; and the third task service embraces the Ground Control System's Support Facilities.
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GALA
EDISOFT was also entrusted in March 2000 with a participation in the European Commission's Galileo Overall Architecture Definition (GALA) programme, which proposed to define the architecture, specifications and cost/benefit analysis of GALILEO, Europe's Global Satellite Navigation System, so that pertinent conclusions could be presented to the European Commission and a decision on the exequibility of the project be made. EDISOFT was an active member of the Support Segment Definition work package, more specifically, participating in the Demonstration Tools Specification.
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USE-ME.GOV
USE-ME.GOV is a EU research and development project designed to support and encourage the access to new e-government services at any time and anywhere through the use of mobile communications and Internet technologies and aims to contribute to a Next-Generation Open Service Platform for mobile users that can be shared by networked authorities and institutions (e.g. on a regional scale) in terms of technical infrastructure, information (content) as well as a framework for commercial exploitation. In close collaboration with other national partners such as the University of Minho and Vila Nova de Cerveira, the business unit develops mobile services that will allow a high degree of interactivity between the citizen and the authority as well as promote the region's main attractions, events, products and businesses.
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