Non-Contractual Liabilities from Civilian Versions of GNSS: Current Trends, Legal Challenges and Potential
In: Luxemburger Juristische Studien - Luxembourg Legal Studies v.12
Cover -- Introduction: Setting the scene -- I. The advent of satellite based services -- I.1 Satellite based services -- I.2 Liability risks and the concept of damage -- a. Direct damage scenarios -- b. Indirect damage scenarios -- II. Research theme -- II.1 Scope of the research -- II.2 The research theme in general -- a. The architecture of GNSS -- b. Liability implications for civilian versions of GNSS: a general overview -- c. Tiers of errors leading to signal loss and the operator's perspective -- II.3 The research theme in more detail -- a. Research questions -- b. Case studies -- c. Forms of civil liability -- d. Catastrophic cases of damage and causation -- III. Expected outcomes of the research and innovation -- III.1 Literature review: status quo -- III.2 Outcomes and innovative aspects -- IV. Methodology -- First part: Satellite based services and GNSS -- Chapter 1: General aspects of satellite based services and GNSS -- I. Central themes of the chapter -- II. Satellite based services -- a. Satellite based services: definition -- b. Some examples: navigation, telecommunication, and Earth observation -- III. Global navigational satellite systems (GNSS) -- a. Architecture and underlying characteristic of GNSS -- a.1 Definition -- a.2 Global dimension -- b. The current systems -- b.1 The Global Positioning System (GPS) -- b.2 The Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) -- b.3 The advent of the EU's Galileo -- c. Civilian applications -- c.1 Transport applications -- c.2 Scientific applications -- c.3 Timing applications -- c.4 Data protection through the use of future GNSS related applications -- c.5 Leisure related applications -- Chapter 2: Liability risks within the field of GNSS: general remarks -- I. Central themes of the chapter -- II. A general overview of GNSS related risks -- a. Technological risks