hapcos
 
HAPCOS is a European COST Action whose Main Objective is:
  To increase knowledge and understanding of the use of High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) for delivery of communications and other services, by exploring, researching and developing new methods, analyses, techniques and strategies for developers, service providers, system integrators and regulators.

Welcome to COST297 -

Autumn 2008 Meeting

We are looking forward to the Autumn 2008 meeting which will take place in Friedrichshafen, Germany on 8-10 October. It will comprise a public Workshop, in conjunction with the 7th International Airship Convention which will take place 9-11 October. All are welcome at this Workshop, outline details of which can be found here. Registration and administration for this event are handled by the Airship Convention, not by COST297 directly.

HAPCOS members and associates are invited to make their travel plans now, and to consider contributions to the Workshop, and are asked to contact their Working Group Chairs (DG, MK, PH) regarding this. [dg@ohm.york.ac.uk, Markus.Knapek@dlr.de, patrick.hendrick@ulb.ac.be] Calls for papers for the Airship Convention as a whole may be found here

Information for MC members

MC members are invited to log in to the private members area, to read remarks from the Chair.

Spring 2008 Meeting

HAPCOS recently held a very successful meeting in Nicosia, 7-9 April 2008. This comprised Working Group sessions together with the 6th Management Committee meeting. A large number of technical papers were presented, together with detailed discussions in the areas of HAPs, wireless communications, and optical communications. A joint session was also held with COST IC603 'ASSIST'. Thanks are due to the European University of Cyprus and to Kostas Katzis for the excellent organisation and hospitality. The MC Minutes are available from the private area.

Other upcoming events

Details and links to some other upcoming conferences and events can be found on our Events page.

Use of the website

We hope these web pages will be a valuable resource for everyone concerned with HAPs and their applications. We welcome input for the web pages, comments and feedback.

We aim to make available published articles and material relating to HAPs and their applications. These can be found by clicking on the ‘publications’ link at the top of the page.

For members of the COST297 Management Ctte and recognised associates, we also use the ‘private’ area, reached via the link at the top right hand side of this page. This will provide communication, information and document handling. This area requires a username and password which may be obtained from the Chair [tct@ohm.york.ac.uk]

15 Jul 2008 - Tim Tozer, Chair COST297 [tct@ohm.york.ac.uk]

 

Working Group 1

Radio Communications

Chair David Grace
[dg@ohm.york.ac.uk].

Working Group 2

Optical Communications

Working Group 3

Platforms

Chair Patrick Hendrick
[patrick.hendrick@ulb.ac.be].

 
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