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Article #167: GPS - a Valuable Tool in Navigation

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Picture this: you're lost in the middle three or more GPS satellites. By
of a storm on country roads or you're measuring the time delay between
hunting in the middle of nowhere and transmission and reception of each GPS
can't find your way home. You check your microwave signal, the GPS calculates the
compass, but still can't find your exact distance based on the time delay.
location. You look at your map, but it's GPS receivers come in a variety of
too difficult to determine where you are formats and, due to the increase in
in the first place! Save yourself the technological advancements with regards
trouble and discover the world of GPS to GPS, can be integrated into cars,
navigation systems. phones, and even watches. GPS systems
Put away your compass and don't bother have become easy to use and easy to care
with your maps, a GPS tracking system for - people all across the world are
will take care of all your navigation taking the time to understand the
needs. Quite simply, a GPS system is the benefits the GPS navigation system can
most effective navigation tool on the bring to one's life.
market today. Using satellite systems Because the GPS system is owned
around the world, a GPS navigation system completely by the government, the GPS
is able to locate your exact position in will be free as stated in the
the world, no matter where you are. Presidential Decision Document of 1996 -
GPS is a satellite-based radionavigation which indicates that the U.S. will
system developed and operated by the U.S. continue to provide the GPS Stand
Department of Defense. GPS allows land, Positioning Service for peaceful civil,
sea, and airborne users to determine commercial and scientific use on a
their position, velocity, and time 24 continuous, worldwide basis, free of
hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in direct user fees.
the world with a precision and accuracy Who would use a GPS system? There are
far better than other systems available many different uses for GPS devices:
today or in the foreseeable future. Farming - For navigation during the night
GPS has become a widely used program used time on tractors
for map-making, commerce, land surveying, Balloon Tracking - to identify your
hunting, and scientific research. Not location while high in the sky
only is it used for civilian purposes, it Cell Phone Tracking - Used by 911
is also used for military and naval emergency assistants to locate the
exercises. Most importantly, what is whereabouts of a missing person with a
trusted by the military and navy is now cell phone
available to the average person. With Roadside assistance - to tell the towing
technological advances and improvements company exactly where you are
in on-screen maps, there has never been a Hunting - to track your location and your
better time to use a GPS navigation hunt
system. Boating - to help you find your location
Developed by the Department of Defense in whenever fog rolls into your area
the United States, GPS is officially Consider asking yourself why you don't
known as the NAVSTAR GPS. The satellite have a GPS navigation system. And by
constellation is managed by the United considering all the benefits of GPS
States Air Force and has been used as systems, you may begin to realize how a
navigation tool for quite some time. GPS navigation system could improve your
A GPS receiver calculates its position by life.
measuring the distance between itself and






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