Hong Kong – 12 October 2016 – Septentrio and its Japanese partner, GNSS Technologies, are proud to announce that they have successfully tracked and decoded the QZSS LEX signal. This achievement marks a milestone in the development of the Japanese QZSS satellite navigation system and is the result of a trusted partnership between Septentrio and GNSS Technologies. The partnership is committed to enable the success of their Japanese customers with the very latest in satellite navigation technology.
QZSS (Quasi-Zenith Satellite System) is Japan’s regional satellite navigation system. When completed, it will consist of 4 satellites: the first satellite was launched in 2010 and the remaining three are scheduled to become operational in 2017. All satellites will be equipped with a revolutionary CLAS (centimetre-level augmentation service). This service will send correction signals straight from the QZSS satellites to end-user receivers and enable them to calculate their position with centimetre-level accuracy. The CLAS corrections are broadcast in the LEX and L6 signals.
By implementing LEX signal tracking and decoding before the completion of the QZSS constellation and before the CLAS service becomes operational, Septentrio and GNSS Technologies are showing their long-term commitment to Japanese customers.
Using Septentrio technology, customers will be able to eliminate the need for investment in ground infrastructure to create correction signals or in subscriptions to commercially available correction signal streams. This opens up possibilities in new application domains in sectors such as marine, construction, agriculture, survey and mapping, geographic information systems (GIS) and unmanned aerial and vehicles (UAVs).