Country Report from Japan 05'9'13

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Country Report from Japan To The 45th CGSIC,
12-13 Sept, 2005 at Long Beach Hiroshi
Nishiguchi Japan GPS Council
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• Increased Interest in GPS and Mapping
• among Japanese Consumers, due to
• Steady growth of car navigation market
• Emerging various applications in the personal
  security
• for children
• Wider practical use of Taxi Cab with
  car-navigation
• - Shopping assist, One-day-Care assist
  
• - Temporary ambulance car

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• Increased Better Understandings of
• Importance with GNSS
• among Japanese Ministries, based on
• Necessity of cost effective renewal for GIS
  Program
• Japanese E-911 Emergency Call with GPS
  positioning
• - Requiring enough GPS signal
  Availability in urban zones
• - Requiring QZSS with DOP
  improvement (better geometry)
• Effective Disaster Management with GNSS
  

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Significant Improvement of Availabilityin Urban
areas by QZSS
GPS only
GPS QZSS
Showing Availability improvement per day
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Image on PHASE-13 QZSS and PHASE-27QZSS
Remarkable improvement of DOP

GPS only
GPSQZSS e-Angle
10e-Angle 30 e-Angle 10 e-Angle 30
GDOP 2.39 6.88 1.80
3.59 HDOP
2.43 1.27 VDOP
4.95 2.60
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• The Politicians move to making Act
• Established the Consulting Organ in March
  under
• the Liberal Democratic Party for making
  Principle Act
• for GNSS uses and Geo-Spatial Information
  Data
• Participants to the Organ
• Politicians, Ministries, Localities,
  Academy,
• Keidanren QZSS Vehicle Co, and
  Industry Council
• (JGPSC)
• Now under making Concept of Principle Act

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• The Politicians move to making Act (contd)
• Goal with making Act
• (1) Governmental assurance for reliability
  of GNSS
• utilization, by QZSS GPS
• (2) Acceleration of Geo-Spatial
  Information Data and
• related programs using QZSS GPS
• (3) To clarify the definition of the GNSS
  Positioning
• Realtime location with accurate time
  information
• (4) Renewal to the accurate mapping
  information

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• The Politicians move to making Act (contd)
• Specified in the Manifest (the election
  pledge) of the
• Liberal Democratic Party
• Establishment of the Principle Act for the
  national
• control of GNSS positioning location and
  time data
• with GPS QZSS
• QZSS Qausi-Zenith Satellite System