Finland works on a solution to lock the Russian jam. The number of disturbances almost has been in one year
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Finnish researchers develop a computer program meant to counteract the jam of satellite positioning systems, a phenomenon that is increasing in the country in 2022, the head of the project said on Tuesday, Agerpres reports.
Finland has increased an increase in suspected jamming cases of the services of the global satellite navigation system (GNSS), such as GPS and Galileo, starting with 2022, with repercussions on aviation and maritime trafficking.
These interferences come from Russia and have disrupted the spatial imaging used by the armed forces, the border guards and the forest sector in Finland, says the country's authorities.
Motivated by the “urgent need” to combat these disturbances, which present both security and economic risks, Finnish researchers have started working on a program to identify and mitigate the intentional jam of satellite positioning systems, explained Mika Saajasto, a scientist responsible for this project to the national authority.
“We will develop algorithmic solutions adapted to our conditions, capable of identifying interference and warning the end user that it is something in the air that does not have its place,” he said.
Last year in Finland there were 2,000 cases of GPS signal disturbances, compared to only 239 in 2023, according to the Finnish Agency for Transport and Traffic Communications.
Finland has a border of 1,340 kilometers with Russia and has strengthened its defense and closed the border after the Russian invasion in Ukraine in February 2022, AFP recalls.
The project funded by the EU will be carried out over a two -year period in North Karelia, a region in the eastern Finland where such interferences have been particularly common. “Some aircraft could not land” because of this, said Mika Saajasto.
