HARMLESS is an initiative carried out by European Commission, European Space Agency, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) industry, and technology experts. Its main objective is to research and promote the use of the European navigation satellite systems Galileo and EGNOS in the areas of Emergency Management , Humanitarian Aid and Law Enforcement .
The HARMLESS project belongs to the 6th Framework Programme, co-financed by the European Commission (EC) and the participant companies and organizations. With a budget of 2 million euros and a duration of 20 months, this project is led by GMV with participation from nine additional organizations from five different European countries.
Galileo and EGNOS, telecommunications, cartographical services and Earth observation are the technologies for the future of Emergency Management, Humanitarian Aid and Law Enforcement domains. The combination of these technologies makes possible a set of applications and procedural improvements that will drastically change the operations in these fields.
HARMLESS will analyze a myriad of applications, such as the coordinated management of emergency equipment deployed in disaster areas, humanitarian aid logistic support, vehicles localization, offenders' control, suspects' tracking, valued goods supervision, or the collection of juridical evidences based on localization and synchronization.
HARMLESS will research, demonstrate and promote these applications while involving technology experts, end user communities and European institutions.
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