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Issue 3.10 | Oct 1995
Geek Page - Global Positioning System
By Andrew Rozmiarek
The new North Star.
The first time your wireless phone rings in the middle of nowhere, it hits you just how electronically enmeshed the world has become.
A similar realization dawns when you find your way out of the woods using directions from a satellite. Global Positioning System - a constellation of 24 satellites operated by t ...
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GPS - UTM
by Don Bartlett
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Last revision - August 16, 2005
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© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada reproduced with permission from National Resources Canada.
Because of my agreement with the NRC, I am not able to give anyone permission to reproduce the ...
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CGRER: Computer Lab
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The Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research has mapping grade global positioning system equipment available for use to all CGRER members. Our equipment consists of a community base station, two hand-held receivers, and a real-time correction beacon receiver, all from Trimble Navigation. Please contact the CGRE ...
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The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. GPS was originally intended for military applications, but in the 1980s, the government made the system available for civilian use. GPS works in ...
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Interested in the Global Positioning System [GPS] and how you can use it? Explore this website and find practical guides, tips, tricks, equipment, software reviews, and other related information provided by actual GPS users. Learn how to use GPS, maps and compass. Find some interesting information about equipment from Lowrance Electronics, Magellan, Garmin and other manufacturers. Learn about undocumented features of LEI handheld GPS receivers like the GlobalMap100 ( GM100 ), Eagle Expedition II ...
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GPS is a satellite technology used as a tool to measure crustal changes.
What is GPS? How does it work? GPS in earthquakes studies Using GPS to measure earthquakes
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References
Elosegui, P. (ed.). 1995. Geodesy using the Global Positioning System: The effects of signal scattering on estimates of site position. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 100 (B7), 9921-9934.
Herring, T.A. 1996, February. The Global Positioning System Scientific American, 44-50.
Wells, David, 1987.Guide To GPS Positioning. Canadian GPS Associates, Canada.
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This article is produced in cooperation with Magellan Systems Corporation, 960 Overland Court, San Dimas, CA 91773. Without this collaboration, this article might have gone on forever to try to explain the magic of satellite positioning, encrypting reasoning and communications. Their significant contributions in this venture are greatly appreciated.
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Introduction to the Global Positioning System for GIS and TRAVERSE
Table of Contents
What is GPS?
Trilateration - How GPS Determines a Location
How the Current Locations of GPS Satellites are Determined
Computing the Distance Between Your Position and the GPS Satellites
Four Satellites to Compute a 3-D Position
The GPS Error Budget
Measuring GPS Accuracy
Using Differential GPS to Increase Accuracy
Levels of GPS Accuracy
GPS and Canopy
GPS for GIS
Glossary of GPS Terms
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