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Re: [Really, GPS]
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2006 Jun 8, 09:17 -0300
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2006 Jun 8, 09:17 -0300
There is also a technique called precise point positioning or PPP which just uses a single dual-frequency receiver plus precise satellite orbits and clocks to achieve positions on the Earth's surface with decimetre accuracy. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Lu Abel wrote: >Richard Langley wrote: >> The underlying P-code (before encryption with the W-code to produce the >> Y-code) is the same on both L1 and L2 and civil receiver manufacturers have >> for years used this feature in dual-frequency receivers to provide >> the civil community with capabilties far superior to those typically required >> in military applications. As an example, at UNB we developed a machine >> control system with 2-centimetre accuracy. > >Judging by some of the replies in this thread, it's important for folks >to know that these precise measurements are NOT locations on the face of >the earth, but rather distances between two sensors. One rarely sees >surveyors out with measuring tapes any more, they all have GPS-based >distance measurement devices. But, again, they are measuring the >difference between the location of two receivers based on the phases of >the received GPS signals, not decoding P-code signals. > >Lu Abel > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ ===============================================================================