URSI and the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG)

摘要

In 1999, the UN General Assembly adopted the "Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development" (Resolution 54/68). Among others, this Declaration called for universal access to and compatibility of space-based navigation and positioning systems. In 2001, the Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space established the Action Team on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). In December 2004, the Action Team presented its report (UNISPACE III), recommending the establishment of an International Committee on GNSS, to facilitate the exchange of information and to promote the development and global use of GNSS. In 2004, in Resolution 59/2, the UN General Assembly invited the system and service providers to consider establishing an international committee on GNSS, in order to maximize the benefits of the use and application of GNSS to support sustainable development. Thus, after a long series of meetings, stretching from August 2001 to December 2005, the ICG was established, and held its inaugural meeting in Vienna in November 2006.