Global Positioning/GPS

J. Lee

doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00035-3

Global Positioning/GPS

J. Lee

Department of Geoinformatics

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Abstract

Global positioning systems (GPSs) are satellite-based radio positioning systems that provide 24-hour three-dimensional position, velocity, and time information to military and civilian users anywhere on the Earth under any weather condition. The GPS has three major segments: space segment, control segment, and user segment. GPS satellites orbiting the Earth every 12 hours transmit continuous navigation signals. With the proper equipment, users can receive these signals to calculate time, location, and velocity. The GPS is rapidly becoming an integral component of the emerging global information infrastructure, with applications ranging from mapping and surveying to international air traffic management, location-based services (LBS), and global change research. Also, the GPS is increasingly used in the social sciences to support researches for which real-time geographic location and time on human spatial activities are required.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	548-555
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080449104
ISBN (Print)	9780080449111
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00035-3
State	Published - 1 Jan 2009

Keywords

Differential GPS
GLONASS
GPS satellites
Galileo system
Geographic information systems
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Global Positioning Systems
Location-based services
Time-geography
Wide-area augmentation system (WAAS)

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