Global Positioning in the Real World

  • GPS can be a reliable timekeeping source
  • GPS must correct for relativistic time dilation -- about 38 microseconds a day
  • Enhancements to GPS
    • Differential GPS (DGPS)
    • Wide-Area Augmentation System (WAAS)
    • European Geostationary Navigation Overlay (EGNOS)
  • Other global positioning systems
    • LORAN-C
    • GLONASS
    • Gailleo (due in 2007)
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