Assisted GPS and Advanced Positioning For Emergency Services

许多志愿者在澳大利亚的森林大火中丧生。火灾正变得越来越多，越来越猛烈。如果有更好的信息，其中一些消防员本可以获救：他们在哪里，消防队在哪里，进展如何。这个项目旨在通过解决这个问题的一部分来拯救生命：通过使GPS在树下可靠地工作来定位和报告远程消防员的位置。这也将使搜救行动更加安全和高效。这项技术可以很容易地转移到基于位置的服务市场，该市场将在未来十年蓬勃发展。该项目有助于保持澳大利亚世界级但规模较小的定位行业的发展势头。

Many volunteers have lost their lives fighting bushfires in Australia. Fires are becoming more numerous and more fierce. Some of those firemen could have been saved if better information was available: where they were, where the firefront was and how it was progressing. This project aims to save lives by solving part of this problem: locating and reporting the position of the remote firefighter by making GPS work reliably under trees. This will also make search and rescue operations safer and more efficient. The technology can transfer readily into the location-based services market which is set to boom in the next decade. This project helps maintain momentum in Australia's world-class but small positioning industry.