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GPS is a constellation of 24 orbiting satellites employed for free-to-use ground and velocity positioning purposes in real-time. The satellites and responding control systems facilitate hand-held receivers in attaining highly accurate geographic co-ordinates from any location on Earth, 24 hours a day (Heywood et al, 2002).
GPS was originally designed to provide navigation for marine shipping and aircraft, yet experienced diverse growth areas in the 1990's (El-Rabbany, 2002). These growth areas have initiated multiple product ranges from low-cost navigational devices to expensive tracking equipment. This website provides related information surrounding the development and distribution of GPS datasets.
GPS Latest Additions
GPS
Data accuracy paper
This briefing describes how accurate GPS data can be structured, represented
and relied upon.
PDF document
122kb [Source: Met Office; Date added: 11 May 2005]
RFID
Technology paper: Competition to GPS
RFID technology similarly to GPS uses radio waves to find positioning
of objects. This paper looks at advantages and disavantages of RFID.
PDF document
122kb [Source: Ordnance Survey; Date added: 11 May
2005]
GPS
Security report
This report is used to identify key security concerns that arise to
using the GPS in society, ranging from terrorist threats to identity fraud.
MS Word document
122kb [Source: Data Protection World; Date added:
10 May 2005]
The
'Loran C' system and the GPS - approaches to marine navigation paper
This report offers insight into the ways that different systems can
be used for marine navigation.
HTML document [Source:
The Shipping Society; Date added: 5 May 2005]
GPS:
Optimisation within the supply chain report
This paper looks at measures and methods that GPS data can be used
to enhance the internal and external supply chain.
MS Word document 122kb
[Source: Home Office; Date added: 1 May 2005]
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