- 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
- All About GPS
Shockwave-animation enhanced tutorial presented by Trimble Navigation.
www.trimble.com/gps
- Consumer Reports: GPS Systems
Consumer Reports offers ratings and information on popular GPS navigation systems, including an overview of popular features and a buying guide.
www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/tires-auto-parts/gps/index.htm
- 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
- Global Positioning System, The
Outlines the system's development, capabilities, and applications.
www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html
- 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
- GPS Drawing
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Project featuring a gallery of large-scale drawings derived from Global Positioning System data.
www.gpsdrawing.com
- GPS FAQ
Provides GPS devices review and product comparison, GPS navigation articles, forums and directory of GPS related sites.
www.gpsfaq.com
- GPS GPS
Buyer's guides, information, and hardware reviews of popular receivers.
www.gps-gps-gps-gps.com
- GPS Lodge
The weblog for those who love GPS systems and the things you can do with them.
www.gpslodge.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
- 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
- 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: The New Navigation
NOVA presents a game to show how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/gps.html
- GPS.eu Blog
Blog dedicated to all things GPS.
www.gps.eu
- GPS/MET
An experiment to use signals from GPS satellites occluded by the Earth to demonstrate active limb sounding of the atmosphere.
www.cosmic.ucar.edu/gpsmet
- GPSgames.org
Rules for world-wide GPS games: geocaching, geodashing, shutter spot, geo-golf, and geopoker.
www.gpsgames.org
- gpsinformation.net
Information, software, and hardware reviews of name brand GPS receivers and PDAs, plus instructions, software, and tutorials.
www.gpsinformation.net
- GpsPasSion
Aims to share news, reviews, thoughts, personalized assistance, and discounts on GPS systems and navigation software for mobile platforms.
www.gpspassion.com
- 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
- Laptop GPS World
Reviews and discussion forums focused on GPS navigation software programs for laptops, tablet PCs, and ultra-mobile PCs.
www.laptopgpsworld.com
- 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
- Online NewsHour: You Are Here
Spencer Michaels looks at how this network of satellites is changing how we get from point A to point B. From 1998.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june98/gps_5-21.html
- Southern California Integrated GPS Network (SCIGN)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Environment_and_Nature/Earthquakes
- 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
- USDA Forest Service Global Positioning System (GPS) Page
Forestry related GPS mapping and GIS applications with emphasis on receiver operation under forest canopy and in backcountry/wildland environments for land management.
www.fs.fed.us/database/gps
- Wikipedia: Global Positioning System
Entry on the Global Positioning System (GPS), the only fully-functional satellite navigation system.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS
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