By placing satellites in orbits at a greater inclination to the equatorial plane, Galileo also achieves better coverage at high latitudes, making it particularly valuable to users in northern Europe, an area thus far not well covered by the USA’s GPS alone.
Asetades satelliidid orbiitidel ekvatoriaaltasandi suhtes suurema kalde alla, saavutab Galileo ka parema kaetuse ka ülemistel laiuskraadidel.