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Satellite navigation and the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN)

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Satellite navigation is an important capability in our modern lives—we use it to find the nearest petrol station, order food at home, and track an arriving package. Accurate satellite-enabled positioning and timing technology is also becoming vital in many industrial sectors of the economy, including transport, agriculture, resources, and utilities. On behalf of the Australian government and in partnership with New Zealand, Geoscience Australia is improving satellite navigation capability for everyone with the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network, or SouthPAN. SouthPAN is a Satellite-Based Augmentation System that will use new spacecraft, ground sensors, and other infrastructure to broadcast corrections that complement existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems—like GPS, for example. SouthPAN services will commence in 2022 and be progressively improved in the coming years, ultimately being used in their most critical application: by aircraft to land at airports.

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Title Satellite navigation and the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/141459f0-bad6-43e8-a8ef-501df1eb9133
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Satellite navigation and the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/satellite-navigation-and-the-southern-positioning-augmentation-network-southpan