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Re: GPS ground stations
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2014 May 15, 23:08 +0200
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2014 May 15, 23:08 +0200
On 15/05/2014 22:41, Lu Abel wrote: > As I understand it, there really are two distinct set of ground stations. > > The first set are run by the folks from the US Air Force that operate > the satellites. These ground stations track the satellites and at least [...] > The second set are locations only within North America that, by knowing > their location to a precision of a few cm, look at GPS signals and say There's more! The stations in question make very precise geodetic measurements using the GPS signals. They are receiving stations only, involved with Global Differential GPS and IGS (e.g. seismology, plate tectonics) http://www.gps.gov/systems/augmentations/ Here's the statement by the deputy prime minister: http://government.ru/en/news/12363 "This concerns the following science and technological cooperation agreements between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the United States, including the agreement of 16 December 1993 that was extended until 15 December 2015, as well as the 15 September 2011 agreement on exchanging seismological and geodynamic data between the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the IRIS consortium." Luc
