First Outdoor Positioning Results with Real Galileo Signals by Using the German Galileo Test and Development Environment - GATE

Under the leadership of IFEN GmbH, the Galileo Test and Development Environment GATE is being built up in southern Germany by a consortium of several German companies and institutes on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The performance tests regarding the user positioning performance will cover various test scenarios for static and dynamic cases. The tests will be performed in all available GATE operation modes with GATE signals only and in combination with GPS. Preliminary test during system testing phase showed already impressive positioning performance with dedicated signals and services. The paper gives an overview on the variant test scenarios and setups and illustrates the detailed hardware setup. An introduction in the GATE Backend Receiver Software, which computes the position solution, is presented. It describes the test procedures and shows the test results. Finally an evaluation on the different GATE services with respect to the positioning performance is presented.