- Global Positioning System, The
Outlines the system's development, capabilities, and applications.
www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
- GPS Drawing
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Project featuring a gallery of large-scale drawings derived from Global Positioning System data.
www.gpsdrawing.com
- gpsinformation.net
Information, software, and hardware reviews of name brand GPS receivers and PDAs, plus instructions, software, and tutorials.
www.gpsinformation.net
- 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
- 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
- Wikipedia: Global Positioning System
Entry on the Global Positioning System (GPS), the only fully-functional satellite navigation system.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS
- GpsPasSion
Aims to share news, reviews, thoughts, personalized assistance, and discounts on GPS systems and navigation software for mobile platforms.
www.gpspassion.com
- 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
- 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
- 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
- GPS Applications Exchange
An online information source on the uses of GPS technology all over the world.
gpshome.ssc.nasa.gov
- 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
- GPSgames.org
Rules for world-wide GPS games: geocaching, geodashing, shutter spot, geo-golf, and geopoker.
www.gpsgames.org
- All About GPS
Shockwave-animation enhanced tutorial presented by Trimble Navigation.
www.trimble.com/gps
- GPS Lodge
The weblog for those who love GPS systems and the things you can do with them.
www.gpslodge.com
- GPS GPS
Buyer's guides, information, and hardware reviews of popular receivers.
www.gps-gps-gps-gps.com
- Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Environment_and_Nature/Earthquakes
- 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 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
- USCG Navigation Center: GPS General Information
Provides general information on GPS. Includes service interruption updates, status reports, NANU information, FAQs, reference information, and a form for reporting GPS problems.
www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps
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