- Global Positioning System, The
Outlines the system's development, capabilities, and applications.
www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
- Wikipedia: Global Positioning System
Entry on the Global Positioning System (GPS), the only fully-functional satellite navigation system.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS
- GPS Drawing
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Project featuring a gallery of large-scale drawings derived from Global Positioning System data.
www.gpsdrawing.com
- GpsPasSion
Aims to share news, reviews, thoughts, personalized assistance, and discounts on GPS systems and navigation software for mobile platforms.
www.gpspassion.com
- gpsinformation.net
Information, software, and hardware reviews of name brand GPS receivers and PDAs, plus instructions, software, and tutorials.
www.gpsinformation.net
- Galileo
European Space Agency project to launch a series of satellites in order to create a global navigation and positioning system for civil purposes.
www.esa.int/esaNA/galileo.html
- HowStuffWorks: How GPS Receivers Work
Explains how a pocket-sized GPS receiver locates four or more GPS satellites, figures out the distance to each, and uses this information to deduce its own location.
www.howstuffworks.com/gps.htm
- GPS Time Series
Measurements made with the Global Positioning System are sensitive enough to detect motion of the Earth's tectonic plates.
sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html
- Laptop GPS World
Reviews and discussion forums focused on GPS navigation software programs for laptops, tablet PCs, and ultra-mobile PCs.
www.laptopgpsworld.com
- GPS Lodge
The weblog for those who love GPS systems and the things you can do with them.
www.gpslodge.com
- GPSgames.org
Rules for world-wide GPS games: geocaching, geodashing, shutter spot, geo-golf, and geopoker.
www.gpsgames.org
- NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office
Provides military operators, integrators, and acquisition agencies information and a forum to plan their tasks, shape their missions, and use GPS to the advantage of the U.S. and its Allies.
gps.losangeles.af.mil
- GPS: The New Navigation
NOVA presents a game to show how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/gps.html
- All About GPS
Shockwave-animation enhanced tutorial presented by Trimble Navigation.
www.trimble.com/gps
- Global Positioning System: The Role of Atomic Clocks
Learn how basic research into the nature of time and ways to measure time accurately contributed to development of GPS.
www.beyonddiscovery.org/content/view.article.asp?a=458
- ADS-B: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
New technology which relies on the satellite-based global positioning system to determine an aircraft's precise location in space. Information from the Cargo Airline Association.
www.ads-b.com
- GPS FAQ
Provides GPS devices review and product comparison, GPS navigation articles, forums and directory of GPS related sites.
www.gpsfaq.com
- Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Environment_and_Nature/Earthquakes
- GPS Tracklog
Blog dedicated to GPS reviews, news, tips and tricks. Includes auto, handheld, marine, sport, cellular, and other forms of consumer GPS.
www.gpstracklog.com
- GPS Resource Library, The
Links about the Global Positioning System (GPS) and handheld GPS units. There are links to other GPS information sites, online Internet mapping programs, grid overlays, DGPS, GPS resellers, and related information.
www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo
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