China has taken a significant leap in its satellite navigation capabilities with the trial operation of its national Beidou high-precision navigation and positioning service platform. The National Geomatics Center of China announced the development in Chongqing on Thursday, marking new progress in the country’s indigenous satellite navigation systems.
Developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the platform integrates satellite navigation and positioning base stations nationwide within the natural resources system. This initiative consolidates more than 3,300 base stations into a unified network, offering centralized management of station resources and injecting new impetus into the development of the digital economy.
The unified network provides seamless, high-precision positioning services across the country, delivering real-time, accurate, and reliable navigation for sectors including public welfare mapping, resource surveying, intelligent transportation, autonomous driving, precision agriculture, and social governance.
The service is available both online and offline. Online, it offers real-time observation data and enhanced positioning services. Offline, the platform delivers coordinate results, post-event observation data files, and related products.
The Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was initiated in 1994. The construction of BDS-1 and BDS-2 was completed in 2000 and 2012, respectively. With the completion and commissioning of BDS-3 on July 31, 2020, China became the third country to have an independent global navigation satellite system.
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China's Beidou navigation service platform begins trial operations
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