By any measure, Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) is one of the UK’s most critical yet least visible national dependencies. It underpins how we move people and goods, synchronise telecommunications, trade in financial markets, manage energy networks, and support national security. Yet for all its importance, PNT resilience remains uneven and fragmented, perhaps because it is often poorly understood. […]
Findings and insights from the Phase 1 of MarRINav are revealed in this webinar recorded in June 2020. With thanks to the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation and the Royal Institute of Navigation.
Register for the next MarRINav webinar sharing project results In 2018 the first-ever European Radionavigation Plan said “It is recognised that [..] GNSS should not be the sole source of PNT information. Alternative PNT systems, not necessarily using radio frequencies, should thus be put in place where the criticality of the application requires it.”One […]
For centuries, mariners have utilised myriad assets to navigate the world’s seas and oceans safely. Compasses, radar, echo sounders, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, signals, the ship’s whistle and the very skies above have all been used to navigate weather, geography and human factors to ensure safe passage. Back in 2017 a concerned captain […]