GPS Applications

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GPS Applications

• Forrest Halford
• APPM 4380-Fall 02

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28 Block II/IIA/IIR Satellites
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Components of GPSThree Segments
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Various and Sundry Applications

• Civilian Navigation
• Military Navigation
• Boats, Aircraft, Vehicle
• Space Shuttle Navigation
• Vehicle/Fleet Tracking
• Police/Hostage Tracking

• Selective Access
• More Accurate Now
• Old Accuracy 100m
• New Accuracy10m
• DGPS on the way
• Ground Stations Compensate for Errors

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Wildlife Management

• Tracking Endangered Species
• Controlling Poaching
• Locating Feeding Areas

• Radio Unit Transmits
• to GPS satellites
• GPS satellites relay
• to earth
• Departments of Wildlife
• Gather and Analyze
• Data

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Land/Sea/Air
From Common Cattle
To Rare Sea Turtles
..and The California Condor
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Cattle Grazing Patterns

• Better Management of Resources

GPS Data from Roaming Patterns ?
Cow with GPS Transmitter
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CU Participation-GreenlandDr Konrad SteffenPARCA
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PARCA Units in Greenland
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Mining and Ore Transportation
Robotic Control of Monster Ore Trucks
Three story, 800 ton Capacity dump Truck
Atlas Uranium Mine Colorado Plateau
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Fleet Tracking
Shipping, Police, Taxi Fleets, Repair Vehicles,
etc.
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Fleet Tracking Software and Transmitters
LinxTrack
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How Fleet Tracking Works

• Speed Exceptions
• Outside Assigned Range
• Immobile Vehicle
• Hijacked Vehicle

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Military Use

• Infantry
• Armor
• Aircraft
• Ships
• Artillery
• All Land Navigation
• Over 9000 GPS Receivers Used on the Ground in
  Desert Storm

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Earthquake Monitoring and Prediction
Alaska, Nov 2002
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Southern California Integrated GPS Network SCIGN

• JPL/NASA
• And USGS
• 250 Permanent
• GPS Stations
• Constantly
• Transmitting to
• JPL, et al.
• Accurate to
• within a few mm

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Location of Undersea Artifacts

• Wrecks
• Salvage
• Marine Archeology
• Atlantis?

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Abandoned Mines and Shafts

• GPS with Capacitively
• Coupled Resistivity Imaging
• Accurately Locates old
• Mines and shafts
• Cataloged for Marking
• and/or Sealing
• Helps Reduce Dangers to
• Children, Hikers, Hunters

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Hurricane Data Collection

• Dropwindsondes Dropped
• Through Eyewall
• Transmits Velocity,
• Temperature, etc back to
• WC-130 Aircraft

Dropwindsondes Release Module
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Surveying

• Land use planning
• Farming
• Agriculture
• Minerals
• Pipelines
• Quarries
• Forestry

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Use for the BlindBrailleNote GPS

• Speech SynthesisUnit speaks to user
• Verbally Instructs Blind of Location and
• Proper Direction
• Provides Heretofore Unknown Independence
• in Unfamiliar Cities

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Use in Foreign Countries

• GPS is Military Technologyfirst
• Still viewed primarily so, in many foreign
  countries
• Take Precautions in GPS use in other countries
• Cases of People Detained, Interrogatedand Worse
• Do not use near military installations or police
  stations
• or critical industrial areasDams, Power, etc.
• They have no way of knowing that you are just
• marking the way back to your hotel
• Perhaps get a letter from embassy or consulate
• on why you have it