UCP – The User Consultation Platform
The User Consultation Platform (UCP) is a periodic forum organised by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), where users from different market segments meet to discuss their needs and application-level requirements relevant for Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT), Earth Observation (EO) and secure telecommunications. The event is involving end users, user associations and representatives of the value chain, such as receiver and chipset manufacturers and application developers.
It also gathers organisations and institutions dealing, directly and indirectly, with the European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS), encompassing Galileo and EGNOS and newly since 2020, also with the EU Earth Observation system, Copernicus, Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and with GOVSATCOM and IRIS2, the upcoming system for EU Secure Satellite Constellation which offers enhanced communication capacities to governmental users and business.
The UCP event is a part of the process developed at EUSPA to collect user needs and requirements and take them as inputs for the provision of user driven space data-based services by the EU Space Programme. In this context, the objective of this document is to provide a reference for the EU Space Programme and for the Rail segment community, reporting periodically the most up-to-date user needs and requirements in the Rail segment. This report is a living and evolving document that will periodically be updated by EUSPA.
It serves as a key input to the UCP, where it will be reviewed and subsequently updated and expanded in order to reflect the evolutions in the user needs, market and technology captured during the event. The report aims to provide EUSPA with a clear and up-to-date view of the current and potential future user needs and requirements in order to serve as an input to the continuous improvement of the development of the space downstream applications and services provided by the EU Space Programme components. In line with the extended mandate of EUSPA, the Report on User needs and Requirements (RURs) previously focused on GNSS, have been revamped in order to also encompass the needs of Earth Observation (EO) commercial users and is now organised according to the market segmentation of the EUSPA EO and GNSS Market Report.
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