PLEASE HELP
Richard B. Langley
> this computer has been down and it's taking its sweet time to get going again.
> I am in URGENT need of VAST quantities of information concerning GPS. I need
> info from its beginnings, to costings, current day military and civilian
usage.
> If there is a FAQ, could someone please let me know its whereabouts. If you
can
> help me yourself (ie name magazines/books I might find at a library), could
you
> please assist me in my hour of need? I would be most grateful for any
assistance at all.
> Thank you in advance.
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GPS INFORMATION SOURCES
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| (Revised 2 April 1994; revisions since previous update marked with bar '|')
Prepared by
Richard B. Langley
Geodetic Research Laboratory
Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N.B.
Canada E3B 5A3
Phone: (506) 453-5142
Fax: (506) 453-4943
Telex: 014-46202
e-mail: LA...@UNB.CA
Comments and additions to this document are welcome.
1. OFFICIAL CIVILIAN INFORMATION SOURCE
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GPS INFORMATION CENTER
o Official U.S. Gov't. point of contact for civilian users
o Operated by U.S. Coast Guard
o Voice telephone recording for constellation status: (703) 313-5907
o Computer bulletin board: (703) 313-5910 (up to 14,400
bps) - almanacs, general information, etc.
Available via the Internet through the FedWorld BBS gateway system.
Telnet
to fedworld.gov and from the top menu, type DD54 to connect to the GPSIC
BBS. See file GPSIC.VIA.INTERNET.INFO in the CANSPACE file archives (see
below) for more information.
o 24 hour watchstand personnel: (703) 313-5900; fax: (703) 313-5920
o WWV / WWVH shortwave broadcasts - constellation status
o DMA and USCG notices and broadcasts
2. ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICES
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UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY
o Responsible for monitoring behaviour of satellite clocks
o Clock data and general information on GPS available
from Automated Data Service (BBS): (202) 653-0155,
-0068, and -1079 (all bit rates); also available via the
Internet (192.5.41.239; anonymous ftp permitted; for telnet
connection, log in as ads -- a password is required -- GPS users may
contact Francine Vannicola, f...@tycho.usno.navy.mil, for the password);
files also available via automated e-mail -- contact Francine Vannicola
for information
o USNO Series 4 mailed weekly bulletins contain satellite
clock info
INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE
o System maintained by IERS Central Bureau in Paris
o Earth orientation data from very long baseline interferometry,
laser ranging, and GPS observations
o Sets of space geodesy station coordinates
o UTC leap second announcements
o Access via anonymous ftp: mesiom.obspm.circe.fr (130.84.200.6)
2D SPACE OPERATIONS SQUADRON BBS
o Operated by U.S. Air Force 2d Space Operations Squadron, Falcon AFB, CO
o Service for GPS users from DoD, other U.S. Gov!t. agencies, NATO, Gov!t.
contractors
o Almanacs, NANUs, Operational Advisories
o DSN 560-6379; (719) 550-6379 (up to 2400 bps; N-8-1)
USAF GPS BBS AT HOLLOMAN AFB, NM
o Operated by U.S. Air Force 6585th Test Group; formerly at Yuma
o Daily almanac, observed range errors, tracking data
o (505) 679-1525 (variety of bit rates)
U.S. ARMY ELECTRONIC PROVING GROUND EGRIS BBS
o Operated by U.S Army
| o Accessible to military users and contractors worldwide
o NANUs, almanac and ephemeris data
| o For authorization to access EGRIS, contact Jack Underwood at USAEPG at
| (602) 533-8087
o (602) 538-3818 (300 and 1200 bps); (602) 538-3856 (9600 bps)
UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SATELLITE GROUP ELECTRONIC BBS
o Operated by the University of Nottingham for the Royal Institution of
Navigation
o Full access is only available to members of UKCSG
o +44-602-422111 (2400 bps)
GPSINFO ELECTRONIC VIDEOTEX BBS
o Operated by the Survey Department of Rijkswaterstaat, (the Dutch
Ministry of Transport and Public Works), Delft
o +31-15-561959 (1200 and 2400 bps)
GPS INFO ELECTRONIC BBS
o Operated by Statens Kartverk (the Norwegian Mapping Authority),
Honefoss.
o +47-321-24045 and -18369 (1200 and 2400 bps)
GLOBAL SATELLITE SOFTWARE BBS
o Operated by Global Satellite Software, Inc., San Jose, California
o (408) 252-7358 (300 / 1200 / 2400 bps)
GIBS - GPS INFORMATIONS- UND BEOBACHTUNGSSYSTEM (INFORMATION AND OBSERVATION
SYSTEM)
o Operated by Institut fuer Angewandte Geodasie, Frankfurt/M, Germany
o +49-69-6333-379 and -418 (up to 19200 bps)
o Available via Internet: Telnet to no5.ifag.de (141.74.240.25)
o A GPS status report in German is available at +49 341 5634-380. The
report is updated at the beginning of each working day.
o Further information from gi...@no5.ifag.de
GRINEL - PROFESSIONAL ELECTRONICS BBS
o Verwoerdburg, South Africa
o Operated by Grinel Professional Services on behalf of the Southern Africa
GPS User Group
o Status advisories, almanac
o +27-12-663-2583 (300 to 2400 bps)
o According to a report from South Africa dated 4 October 1993, this BBS is
no longer active
KORT- OG MATRIKELSTYRELSEN BBS
o Kobenhavn, Denmark
o +45-3-185-3541 (up to 2400 bps)
ASSOCIATED CONSULTING INC. BBS
o Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
o (702) 647-9266 (300/1200/2400 bps)
NATIONAL LAND SURVEY BBS
o Gavle, Sweden
o +46-26-153748 (up to 19200 bps)
AUSLIG GEODESY ELECTRONIC BBS
o Operated by Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
o Constellation status, almanac data, related geodetic information
o +61-6-201-4375 or -4378 (300 to 600 bps)
CANADIAN SPACE GEODESY FORUM
o A LISTSERV-based discussion and information electronic mailing list
o Address of list: CANS...@UNB.CA
o Address for further information: LA...@UNB.CA
o File archive in "directory" PUB.CANSPACE on unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca
(131.202.1.2) available by anonymous ftp
o File archive also available via Gopher;
URL: gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca:1570/1EXEC%3aCANSPACE
o Latest DoD NANUs may be obtained by "fingering" g...@geomac.se.unb.ca
| INTERNATIONAL GPS SERVICE FOR GEODYNAMICS
| o System maintained by IGS Central Bureau at JPL in Pasadena
| o Information about access to tracking data from global tracking network
| o Precise GPS satellite orbits generated by IGS Analysis Centers
| o Information about IGS Tracking Stations, Data Centers, Analysis Centers
| o GPS System Status Information
| o Access via anonymous ftp: sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.70.41)
| CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY GPS/GLONASS GOPHER SERVER
| o Operated by the Group of Signals and Systems, Department of
| Radioelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical
| University, Prague
| o Host: gopher.feld.cvut.cz (147.32.192.5)
| o Bilingual: Czech/English
| o Data concerning Navstar GPS and GLONASS including the status of the
| systems (number of working satellites and whether they are usable or not)
| and almanac data for all satellites.
| o All data are based on the monitoring of both systems at the Czech
Technical
| University
| o Suggestions and comments should be forwarded to BR...@feld.cvut.cz or
| SE...@feld.cvut.cz
| WORLD WIDE WEB
| Hal Mueller of the Dept. of Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University
| has put together a very good hypertext document containing pointers to a
| number of items on GPS along with ones on GIS, remote sensing, and various
| other geosciences that can be found on the Internet. The uniform resource
| locator (URL) for the hypertext document is
| http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/geoscience.html
| Simply enter the URL into Mosaic or another WWW browser to access the
| document.
OTHER GPS MAILING LISTS
o GPS DIGEST
Moderated by Andy Arkusinski and Ken Jongsma of Smiths Industries, Grand
Rapids, MI.
According to the moderators ...
The GPS Digest is a forum for the discussion of topics related to the USAF
Global Positioning System (GPS) and other satellite navigation positioning
systems. The GPS Digest is moderated and is not presently available via
USENET newsgroup. Submissions should be made to g...@tws4.si.com.
Administrative requests [including requests to be added to the mailing
list] should be made to gps-r...@tws4.si.com.
The digests are archived in the CANSPACE file archives.
o GPStech
The GPStech Mailing List
| Operated by Jeff Freymueller, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University
| GPStech is an unmoderated mailing list for the discussion of GPS technical
| and other issues. The intention is to provide a forum for the exchange of
| information, for discussion of the finer technical points that always seem
| to trip us up, and for questions about particular GPS analysis software.
| While the original intent of the list was to provide a forum for
discussion
| of topics involved in high-precision geodetic GPS (for surveying and
| crustal deformation applications), topics involving GPS navigation are
| welcomed as well.
| Both question-and-answer and open debate/discussion are encouraged. New
| members are encouraged to ask questions and suggest topics of discussion
| (as are longtime members for that matter).
Use the following mail addresses to access the GPStech list:
gps...@cotopaxi.stanford.edu -- to post a message
gpstech...@cotopaxi.stanford.edu -- to join or quit the list
USENET
Several USENET news groups have occasional postings related to GPS. Among
them are
o comp.infosystems.gis (gatewayed with the LISTSERV list
GI...@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU)
o rec.aviation.misc
o rec.boats
| o sci.electronics
o sci.space
o sci.space.news
| A new USENET news group, sci.geo.satellite-nav, has recently been
established.
3. PERIODICALS
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GPS WORLD MAGAZINE
o Monthly magazine covering the spectrum of GPS usage
o Current regular subscription rates: US $59, Canada $79, Foreign $117
o Special subscription rates may be offered from time to time
o Free subscriptions may still be available for qualified individuals
o Advanstar Communications
P.O. Box 10460
Eugene, Oregon 97440-2460
U.S.A.
Phone: (503) 343-1200
Fax: (503) 683-8841
Telex: 510-597-0365
GPS WORLD NEWSLETTER
o 6-page newsletter published twice a month by Advanstar Communications
o For subscription information, contact GPS World at the address and phone
numbers above
GPS REPORT
o 8-page newsletter containing news and analysis on commercial and military
applications of GPS
o Also available electronically via NewsNet and Predicasts
o Phillips Business Information, Inc.
7811 Montrose Road
Potomac, MD 20854
U.S.A.
Phone: (301) 340-2100
Fax: (301) 424-4297
Telex: 358149
CSTG GPS SUBCOMMISSION'S GPS BULLETIN
o Bulletin of the GPS Subcommission under Commission VIII, Inter-
national Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geo-
dynamics of the International Association of Geodesy and the
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
o Reports on GPS developments related to high accuracy uses of GPS
o Status of the Cooperative International GPS Network (CIGNET)
o GPS Bulletin is prepared and distributed by the National Geodetic
Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce
o Editor: Miranda Chin
NOAA, N/OES13
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Springs, MD 20910
Phone: (301)713-2852
Fax: (301) 713-4475
e-mail: mir...@gracie.grdl.noaa.gov
o According to a report received on 9 November 1993, the GPS Bulletin is no
longer being published.
GNSS UPDATE
o Irregular publication of Transport Canada's Global Navigation Satellite
System Working Group
o Editor: Deborah Martin
Transport Canada
Place de Ville, Tower "C"
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N8
Attention: AANDDB
Fax: (613) 998-7416
SATNAV NEWS
o Quarterly publication on developments at the Federal Aviation
Administration's Satellite Program Office
o Available in electronic form from the CANSPACE file archives (see above)
4. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
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Ackroyd, N. and R. Lorimer (1990). Global Navigation, A GPS User's Guide.
Lloyd's of London, 202 pp.
ARINC Research Corporation (1991). System Specifications for Navstar GPS
Space Segment/Navigation Users Interface. GPS Interface Control Document.
ICD-GPS-200, 3 July, 115 pp.
| Dahl, Bonnie (1994?). The Users Guide to GPS. Richardsons' Marine
| Publishing, Chicago, IL.
| Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada (1993). GPS Positioning
| Guide. Natural Resources Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E9
Hofmann-Wellenhof, B., H. Lichtenegger, and J. Collins (1992). Global
Positioning System, Theory and Practice. Springer-Verlag, 326 pp.
Institute of Navigation, The (1980). Global Positioning System. Vol. I.
Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation. The Institute of
Navigation (U.S.), 246 pp.
Institute of Navigation, The (1984). Global Positioning System. Vol. II.
Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation. The Institute of
Navigation (U.S.), 257 pp.
Institute of Navigation, The (1986). Global Positioning System. Vol. III.
Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation. The Institute of
Navigation (U.S.), 293 pp.
King, R.W., E.G. Masters, C. Rizos, A. Stolz, and J. Collins (1985).
Surveying with GPS. Monograph 9. School of Surveying, The University of New
South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.
Leick, A. (1990). GPS Satellite Surveying. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New
York, Toronto, 352 pp.
Logsdon, T. (1992). Navstar Global Positioning System. Van Nostrand
Reinhold, New York, 249 pp.
McElroy, S., E. Masters, G. Jones, D. Kinlyside, C. Rizos, A. Sivertsen, P.
Brown, O. Moss, and G. Dickson (1992). Getting Started with GPS Surveying.
The Global Positioning Consortium (GPSCO), c/o School of Surveying, The
University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia, 186 pp.
Puterski, R., J.A. Carter, M.J. Hewitt, H.F. Stone, L.T. Fisher, and E.T.
Slonecker. (1992). GIS Technical Memorandum 3: Global Positioning Systems
Technology and its Application in Environmental Programs. EPA/600/R-92/036.
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, Office of Research and
Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P.O. Box 93478, Las Vegas,
NV 89193-3478, 68 pp.
| Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services Special Committee 104
(1994).
| RTCM Recommended Standards for Differential Navstar GPS Service, Version 2.1
| (RTCM Paper 194-93/SC104-STD). RTCM, P.O. Box 19087, Washington, D.C. 20036.
Seeber, G. (1993). Satellite Geodesy: Foundations, Methods, and Applications.
Revised translation of Satellitengeodasie. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin,
531 pp.
Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1989). GPS: A Guide to the Next Utility. Trimble
Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, California., 76 pp.
Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1992). GPS Surveyor's Field Guide -- A Field
Guidebook for Static Surveying. Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale,
California.
Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1992). GPS Surveyor's Field Guide -- A Field
Guidebook for Dynamic Surveying. Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale,
California, 72 pp.
Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1993). Differential GPS Explained -- An expose of
the surprisingly simple principles behind today's most advanced positioning
technology. Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, California, 55 pp.
| United States Army Corps of Engineers (1991). NAVSTAR Global Positioning
| System Surveying. Engineer Manual No. 1110-1-1003. Department of the Army,
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. 20314-1000.
Wells, D.E., N. Beck, D. Delikaraoglou, A. Kleusberg, E.J. Krakiwsky, G.
Lachapelle, R.B. Langley, M. Nakiboglu, K.P. Schwarz, J.M. Tranquilla, and
P. Vanicek (1987). Guide to GPS Positioning. 2nd printing with corrections.
Canadian GPS Associates, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 600 pp.
Many of these books are available from
Navtech Book and Software Store (a division of Navtech Seminars, Inc.)
2775 S. Quincy St.
#610
Arlington, VA 22206-2204
U.S.A.
Phone: (800) 628-0885
(703) 931-0500
Fax: (703) 931-0503
5. PAPERS AND ARTICLES
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A series of six articles on GPS receivers (primarily the transputer-based
receivers developed by Inmos) by Philip Mattos, a consulting engineer with
Inmos/SGS-Thomson, was published by Electronics World + Wireless World
between
December 1992 and May 1993. In addition to receiver details, the articles
also cover the theory of operation of GPS, GPS antennas, and various GPS
applications. Note that the constructional kit and newsletter mentioned in
the sixth article are not available and that there are some minor errors here
and there scattered through the articles.
Mattos, P. (1992). GPS. Electronics World & Wireless World, No. 1681, pp.
982-987.
Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 2: Receiver Architecture. Electronics World &
Wireless World, No. 1682, pp. 29-32.
Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 3: The GPS Message On The Hardware Platform.
Electronics World & Wireless World, No. 1683, pp. 146-151.
Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 4: Radio Architecture. Electronics World & Wireless
World, No. 1684, pp. 210-216.
Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 5: The Software Engine. Electronics World & Wireless
World, No. 1685, pp. 296-&.
Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 6: Applications. Electronics World & Wireless World,
No. 1686, pp. 384-389.
6. GPS BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A GPS Bibliographic Subscription Service is offered by Canadian GPS
Associates, publishers of the Guide to GPS Positioning. This service
provides
twice-yearly updated editions, listing GPS-related publications from
journals,
newsletters, reports, and proceedings of GPS-related conferences.
The Premier Edition, issued in late 1992, contained 4,358 entries. This grew
from a 1,000-entry bibliography prepared in 1989 at the University of New
Brunswick for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Dredging Research Program
Technical Report DRP-92-2, available in electronic form as message #5296 on
the U.S. Coast Guard's GPS Information Center Bulletin Board). At 8,802
entries, the July 1993 Edition has doubled in size.
The GPS Bibliography is available in both hard-copy and computer-readable form
on PC or Macintosh diskettes. The PC diskette version is available in either
the standard CSV (comma-separated-variables) text format, or dBase III format.
For Macintosh users, the format is tab-separated field text format.
For further information, contact
Canadian GPS Associates
P.O. Box 3184
Postal Station B
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada E3A 5G9
Phone: (506) 454-2650
Fax: (506) 454-0352
e-mail: la...@unb.ca
7. GPS RECEIVER SURVEYS
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| Fishing & Powerboat Electronics Buyers Guide. Includes test reports, quality
| ratings, and best buy selections of GPS receivers (and other electronic
| boating equipment). Annual publication. Available at news-stands.
Published
| by Skipper Marine Electronics, Inc., 3170 Commercial Avenue, Northbrook, IL
| 60062; (708) 272-4700, (800) 754-7737.
GPS Receiver Survey. Published by Navtech Seminars, Inc. (see above for
address). Updated frequently.
GPS World Receiver Survey. Published annually in the January issue of GPS
World magazine.
Guide to GPS Receivers. Published irregularly by Colwell-Kirtland
International, 675 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086; (408) 720-0111.
Who's Who in GPS Equipment -- A Technical Reference. Published by Phillips
Business Information, Inc., publishers of GPS Report (see above for address).
Annual publication.
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Richard B. Langley Internet: LA...@UNB.CA or S...@UNB.CA
Geodetic Research Laboratory BITnet: LANG@UNB or SE@UNB
Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: (506) 453-5142
University of New Brunswick FAX: (506) 453-4943
Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Telex: 014-46202
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