Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are a key component of the ICAO Communication Navigation Surveillance---Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) system. The fact that GPS and GLONASS, currently the only systems that partially meet the requirements for ICAO's GNSS, are military systems owned, operated and controlled by the US and the Russian Federation raises several institutional and legal issues for civil aviation. / This thesis will present the institutional and legal issues of the GNSS which have been recently discussed in the framework of ICAO. The certification issue to ensure the safety of civil aviation will be considered. The possibility of the legal system for the existing GNSS will correspondingly be examined. / The thesis will also discuss the impact on developing countries in respect of utilizing the existing GNSS as a sole-means navigation system in considering whether a guarantee of quality and continuity of the services in long term is needed, and if so which alternative it is likely to take. Finally, the CNS/ATM trials and implementation plan of Thailand will be presented in order to illustrate the inclination with which the developing countries are going through.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20537 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Kantasuk, Battama. |
| Contributors | Milde, Michael (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Air and Space Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001609910, proquestno: MQ44063, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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