Gnss – Status and Perspective Gnss – Status I Perspektive

This paper presents the status and perspective of operative Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS): Global Positioning System (GPS), developed in United States; ГЛОбальная НАвигационная Спутниковая Система (GLONASS), developed in Russia; GALILEO system, which is under developing by European Union and Chinese COMPASS system. The analysis of results and achievements was provided by the participation of the Center for Geoinformation Technologies and Systems in EUPOS (European POSition determination system) organization, with its application Detection of Underground Utilities using Ground Penetrating Radar and D-GNSS Technology. EUPOS, headquarter in Berlin, brings together countries of Eastern and Central Europe on the project EUPOS INTERREG IIIc, project part-financed by the European Union. Papers are published on the International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-Based and Ground-Based Augmentation Systems and Applications, held on 11-14 of November 2008, and 30 of November – 2 of December 2009, in Berlin, under the auspice of EUPOS organization (www.eupos.org).