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Structure
GPS consists of three parts: the space segment, the control segment,
and the user segment. The U.S. Air Force develops, maintains, and
operates the space and control segments. GPS satellites broadcast
signals from space, which each GPS receiver uses to calculate its
three-dimensional location (latitude, longitude, and altitude) plus the
current time.[1]
Applications
While originally a military project, GPS is considered a dual-use technology, meaning it has significant military and
civilian applications.
GPS has become a widely used and a useful tool for commerce, scientific uses, tracking and surveillance. GPS's
accurate timing facilitates everyday activities such as banking, mobile phone operations, and even the control of
power grids. Farmers, surveyors, geologists and countless others perform their work more efficiently, safely,
economically, and accurately.[1]
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Civilian
Many civilian applications use one or more of GPS's three basic
components: absolute location, relative movement, and time transfer.
• Surveying: Surveyors use absolute locations to make maps and
determine property boundaries
• Map-making: Both civilian and military cartographers use GPS
extensively.
• Navigation: Navigators value digitally precise velocity and
orientation measurements.
• Cellular telephony: Clock synchronization enables time transfer,
which is critical for synchronizing its spreading codes with other
base stations to facilitate inter-cell handoff and support hybrid
GPS/cellular position detection for mobile emergency calls and
other applications. The first handsets with integrated GPS launched
in the late 1990s. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) mandated the feature in 2002 so emergency services could
locate 911 callers. Third-party software developers later gained
access to GPS APIs from Nextel upon launch, followed by Sprint in
2006, and Verizon soon thereafter.
• Tectonics: GPS enables direct fault motion measurement in This antenna is mounted on the roof of a hut
earthquakes. containing a scientific experiment needing
precise timing.
• Disaster relief/emergency services: Depend upon GPS for location
and timing capabilities
• GPS tours: Location determines which content to display; for instance, information about an approaching point of
interest is displayed.
• Geofencing: Vehicle tracking systems, person tracking systems, and pet tracking systems use GPS to locate a
vehicle, person or pet. These devices attach to the vehicle, person, or the pet collar. The application provides 24/7
tracking and mobile or Internet updates should the trackee leave a designated area.[2]
• Recreation: For example, geocaching, geodashing, GPS drawing and waymarking
• GPS Aircraft Tracking
• Geotagging: Applying location coordinates to digital objects such as photographs and other documents for
purposes such as creating map overlays.
Military
As of 2009, military applications of GPS include:
• Navigation: GPS allows soldiers to find objectives, even in the dark or in unfamiliar territory, and to coordinate
troop and supply movement. In the US armed forces, commanders use the Commanders Digital Assistant and
lower ranks use the Soldier Digital Assistant.[4] [5] [6] [7]
• Target tracking: Various military weapons systems use GPS to track potential ground and air targets before
flagging them as hostile. These weapon systems pass target coordinates to precision-guided munitions to allow
them to engage targets accurately. Military aircraft, particularly in air-to-ground roles, use GPS to find targets (for
example, gun camera video from AH-1 Cobras in Iraq show GPS co-ordinates that can be looked up in Google
Earth).
• Missile and projectile guidance: GPS allows accurate targeting of various military weapons including ICBMs,
cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions. Artillery projectiles. Embedded GPS receivers able to withstand
accelerations of 12,000 g or about 118 km/s2 have been developed for use in 155 millimeters (6.1 in) howitzers.[8]
• Search and Rescue: Downed pilots can be located faster if their position is known.
• Reconnaissance: Patrol movement can be managed more closely.
• GPS satellites carry a set of nuclear detonation detectors consisting of an optical sensor (Y-sensor), an X-ray
sensor, a dosimeter, and an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sensor (W-sensor), which form a major portion of the
United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System.[9] [10]
History
The design of GPS is based partly on similar ground-based radio navigation systems, such as LORAN and the Decca
Navigator developed in the early 1940s, and used during World War II. In 1956 Friedwardt Winterberg[11] proposed
a test of general relativity using accurate atomic clocks placed in orbit in artificial satellites. To achieve accuracy
requirements, GPS uses principles of general relativity to correct the satellites' atomic clocks. Additional inspiration
for GPS came when the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik in 1957. A team of U.S.
scientists led by Dr. Richard B. Kershner were monitoring Sputnik's radio transmissions. They discovered that,
because of the Doppler effect, the frequency of the signal being transmitted by Sputnik was higher as the satellite
approached, and lower as it continued away from them. They realized that since they knew their exact location on
the globe, they could pinpoint where the satellite was along its orbit by measuring the Doppler distortion (see Transit
(satellite)).
The first satellite navigation system, Transit, used by the United States Navy, was first successfully tested in 1960. It
used a constellation of five satellites and could provide a navigational fix approximately once per hour. In 1967, the
U.S. Navy developed the Timation satellite that proved the ability to place accurate clocks in space, a technology
that GPS relies upon. In the 1970s, the ground-based Omega Navigation System, based on phase comparison of
signal transmission from pairs of stations,[12] became the first worldwide radio navigation system. However,
limitations of these systems drove the need for a more universal navigation solution with greater accuracy.
While there were wide needs for accurate navigation in military and civilian sectors, almost none of those were seen
as justification for the billions of dollars it would cost in research, development, deployment, and operation for a
complex constellation of navigation satellites. However during the Cold War arms race, the nuclear threat to the very
existence of the United States was the one need that did justify this cost in the view of the US Congress. This
deterrent effect is why GPS was funded. The nuclear triad consisted of the US Navy's submarine-launched ballistic
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missiles (SLBMs) along with the US Air Force's strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
Considered vital to the nuclear deterrence posture, accurate determination of the SLBM launch position was a force
multiplier.
Precise navigation would enable US submarines to get an accurate fix of their positions prior to launching their
SLBMs.[13] The US Air Force with two-thirds of the nuclear triad also had requirements for a more accurate and
reliable navigation system. The Navy and Air Force were developing their own technologies in parallel to solve what
was essentially the same problem. To increase the survivability of ICBMs, there was a proposal to use mobile launch
platforms so the need to fix the launch position had similarity to the SLBM situation.
In 1960, the Air Force proposed a radio-navigation system called MOSAIC (Mobile System for Accurate ICBM
Control) that was essentially a 3-D LORAN. A follow-on study called Project 57 was worked in 1963 and it was "in
this study that the GPS concept was born." That same year the concept was pursued as Project 621B, which had
"many of the attributes that you now see in GPS"[14] and promised increased accuracy for Air Force bombers as well
as ICBMs. Updates from the Navy Transit system were too slow for the high speeds that the Air Force operated at.
The Navy Research Laboratory continued advancements with their Timation (Time Navigation) satellites, first
launched in 1967, and with the third one in 1974 carrying the first atomic clock put into orbit.[15]
With these parallel developments out of the 1960s, it was realized that a superior system could be developed by
synthesizing the best technologies from 621B, Transit, Timation and SECOR in a multi-service program. Over the
Labor Day weekend in 1973, a meeting of about 12 military officers at the Pentagon discussed the creation of a
Defense Navigation Satellite System (DNSS). It was at this meeting that "the real synthesis that became GPS was
created." Later that year, the DNSS program was named Navstar. With the individual satellites being associated with
the name Navstar (as with the predecessors Transit and Timation), a more fully encompassing name was used to
identify the constellation of Navstar satellites. This more complete name was Navstar-GPS, which was later
shortened simply to GPS.[16]
After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, carrying 269 people, was shot down in 1983 after straying into the USSR's
prohibited airspace,[17] in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive
making GPS freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good.[18] The first
satellite was launched in 1989, and the 24th satellite was launched in 1994.
Initially, the highest quality signal was reserved for military use, and the signal available for civilian use was
intentionally degraded ("Selective Availability", SA). This changed with U.S. President Bill Clinton ordering
Selective Availability turned off at midnight May 1, 2000, improving the precision of civilian GPS from 300 meters
(about 1000 feet) to 20 meters (about 65 feet). The U.S. military by then had the ability to deny GPS service to
potential adversaries on a regional basis.[19]
Summary of satellites[20]
Block Launch Satellite launches Currently in orbit
Period and healthy
Suc- Fail- In Plan-
cess ure prep- ned
aration
I 1978–1985 10 1 0 0 0
II 1989–1990 9 0 0 0 0
IIIA 2014–? 0 0 0 12 0
IIIB 0 0 0 8 0
IIIC 0 0 0 16 0
Total 59 2 11 36 30
• In 1972, the U.S. Air Force Central Inertial Guidance Test Facility (Holloman AFB), conducted developmental
flight tests of two prototype GPS receivers over White Sands Missile Range, using ground-based
pseudo-satellites.
• In 1978, the first experimental Block-I GPS satellite was launched.
• In 1983, after Soviet interceptor aircraft shot down the civilian airliner KAL 007 that strayed into prohibited
airspace due to navigational errors, killing all 269 people on board, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that
GPS would be made available for civilian uses once it was completed.[22] [23]
• By 1985, ten more experimental Block-I satellites had been launched to validate the concept.
• On February 14, 1989, the first modern Block-II satellite was launched.
• In 1992, the 2nd Space Wing, which originally managed the system, was de-activated and replaced by the 50th
Space Wing.
• By December 1993, GPS achieved initial operational capability.
• By January 17, 1994 a complete constellation of 24 satellites was in orbit.
• Full Operational Capability was declared by NAVSTAR in April 1995.
• In 1996, recognizing the importance of GPS to civilian users as well as military users, U.S. President Bill Clinton
issued a policy directive[24] declaring GPS to be a dual-use system and establishing an Interagency GPS
Executive Board to manage it as a national asset.
• In 1998, U.S. Vice President Al Gore announced plans to upgrade GPS with two new civilian signals for
enhanced user accuracy and reliability, particularly with respect to aviation safety and in 2000 the U.S. Congress
authorized the effort, referring to it as GPS III.
• In 1998, GPS technology was inducted into the Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame.
• On May 2, 2000 "Selective Availability" was discontinued as a result of the 1996 executive order, allowing users
to receive a non-degraded signal globally.
• In 2004, the United States Government signed an agreement with the European Community establishing
cooperation related to GPS and Europe's planned Galileo system.
• In 2004, U.S. President George W. Bush updated the national policy and replaced the executive board with the
National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing.[25]
• November 2004, QUALCOMM announced successful tests of assisted GPS for mobile phones.[26]
• In 2005, the first modernized GPS satellite was launched and began transmitting a second civilian signal (L2C)
for enhanced user performance.
• On September 14, 2007, the aging mainframe-based Ground Segment Control System was transferred to the new
Architecture Evolution Plan.[27]
• The most recent launch was on May 28, 2010.[28] The oldest GPS satellite still in operation was launched on
November 26, 1990, and became operational on December 10, 1990.[29]
• On May 19, 2009, the U. S. Government Accountability Office issued a report warning that some GPS satellites
could fail as soon as 2010.[30]
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• On May 21, 2009, the Air Force Space Command allayed fears of GPS failure saying "There's only a small risk
we will not continue to exceed our performance standard."[31]
• On January 11, 2010, an update of ground control systems caused a software incompatibility with 8000 to 10000
military receivers manufactured by a division of Trimble Navigation Limited of Sunnyvale, Calif.[32]
Awards
Two GPS developers received the National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize for 2003:
• Ivan Getting, emeritus president of The Aerospace Corporation and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, established the basis for GPS, improving on the World War II land-based radio system called
LORAN (Long-range Radio Aid to Navigation).
• Bradford Parkinson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, conceived the present
satellite-based system in the early 1960s and developed it in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force. Parkinson
served twenty-one years in the Air Force, from 1957 to 1978, and retired with the rank of colonel.
GPS developer Roger L. Easton received the National Medal of Technology on February 13, 2006.[33]
On February 10, 1993, the National Aeronautic Association selected the GPS Team as winners of the 1992 Robert J.
Collier Trophy, the nation's most prestigious aviation award. This team combines researchers from the Naval
Research Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force, the Aerospace Corporation, Rockwell International Corporation, and IBM
Federal Systems Company. The citation honors them "for the most significant development for safe and efficient
navigation and surveillance of air and spacecraft since the introduction of radio navigation 50 years ago."
It is likely that the surfaces of the three spheres intersect, since the circle of intersection of the first two spheres is
normally quite large, and thus the third sphere surface is likely to intersect this large circle. It is very unlikely that the
surface of the sphere corresponding to the fourth satellite will intersect either of the two points of intersection of the
first three, since any clock error could cause it to miss intersecting a point. However, the distance from the valid
estimate of GPS receiver position to the surface of the sphere corresponding to the fourth satellite can be used to
compute a clock correction. Let denote the distance from the valid estimate of GPS receiver position to the fourth
satellite and let denote the pseudorange of the fourth satellite. Let . is the distance from the
computed GPS receiver position to the surface of the sphere corresponding to the fourth satellite. Thus the quotient,
, provides an estimate of
(correct time) − (time indicated by the receiver's on-board clock),
and the GPS receiver clock can be advanced if is positive or delayed if is negative. However, it should be kept
in mind that a less simple function of may be needed to estimate the time error in an iterative algorithm as
discussed in the Navigation section.
System segmentation
The current GPS consists of three major segments. These are the space
segment (SS), a control segment (CS), and a user segment (US).[40]
Space segment
As of March 2008,[47] there are 31 actively broadcasting satellites in the GPS constellation, and two older, retired
from active service satellites kept in the constellation as orbital spares. The additional satellites improve the precision
of GPS receiver calculations by providing redundant measurements. With the increased number of satellites, the
constellation was changed to a nonuniform arrangement. Such an arrangement was shown to improve reliability and
availability of the system, relative to a uniform system, when multiple satellites fail.[48] About eight satellites are
visible from any point on the ground at any one time (see animation at right).
Control segment
The control segment is composed of
1. a master control station (MCS),
2. an alternate master control station,
3. four dedicated ground antennas and
4. six dedicated monitor stations.
The MCS can also access U.S. Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) ground antennas (for additional
command and control capability) and NGA (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) monitor stations. The flight
paths of the satellites are tracked by dedicated U.S. Air Force monitoring stations in Hawaii, Kwajalein, Ascension
Island, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Cape Canaveral, along with shared NGA monitor stations
operated in England, Argentina, Ecuador, Bahrain, Australia and Washington DC.[49] The tracking information is
sent to the Air Force Space Command's MCS at Schriever Air Force Base 25 km (16 miles) ESE of Colorado
Springs, which is operated by the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) of the United States Air Force (USAF).
Then 2 SOPS contacts each GPS satellite regularly with a navigational update using dedicated or shared (AFSCN)
ground antennas (GPS dedicated ground antennas are located at Kwajalein, Ascension Island, Diego Garcia, and
Cape Canaveral). These updates synchronize the atomic clocks on board the satellites to within a few nanoseconds of
each other, and adjust the ephemeris of each satellite's internal orbital model. The updates are created by a Kalman
filter, which uses inputs from the ground monitoring stations, space weather information, and various other
inputs.[50]
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Satellite maneuvers are not precise by GPS standards. So to change the orbit of a satellite, the satellite must be
marked unhealthy, so receivers will not use it in their calculation. Then the maneuver can be carried out, and the
resulting orbit tracked from the ground. Then the new ephemeris is uploaded and the satellite marked healthy again.
User segment
Communication
The navigational signals transmitted by GPS satellites encode a variety of information including satellite positions,
the state of the internal clocks, and the health of the network. These signals are transmitted on two separate carrier
frequencies that are common to all satellites in the network. Two different encodings are used, a public encoding that
enables lower resolution navigation, and an encrypted encoding used by the U.S. military.
Message format
1 Satellite clock,
GPS time relationship
2–3 Ephemeris
(precise satellite orbit)
Each GPS satellite continuously broadcasts a navigation message at a rate of 50 bits per second (see bitrate). Each
complete message is composed of 30-second frames, distinct groupings of 1,500 bits of information. Each frame is
further subdivided into 5 subframes of length 6 seconds and with 300 bits each. Each subframe contains 10 words of
30 bits with length 0.6 seconds each. Each 30 second frame begins precisely on the minute or half minute as
indicated by the atomic clock on each satellite.[54]
The first part of the message encodes the week number and the time within the week,[55] as well as the data about the
health of the satellite. The second part of the message, the ephemeris, provides the precise orbit for the satellite. The
last part of the message, the almanac, contains coarse orbit and status information for all satellites in the network as
well as data related to error correction.[56]
All satellites broadcast at the same frequencies. Signals are encoded using code division multiple access (CDMA)
allowing messages from individual satellites to be distinguished from each other based on unique encodings for each
satellite (which the receiver must be aware of). Two distinct types of CDMA encodings are used: the
coarse/acquisition (C/A) code, which is accessible by the general public, and the precise (P) code, that is encrypted
so that only the U.S. military can access it.
The ephemeris is updated every 2 hours and is generally valid for 4 hours, with provisions for updates every 6 hours
or longer in non-nominal conditions. The almanac is updated typically every 24 hours. Additionally data for a few
weeks following is uploaded in case of transmission updates that delay data upload.
Satellite frequencies
All satellites broadcast at the same two frequencies, 1.57542 GHz (L1 signal) and 1.2276 GHz (L2 signal). The
satellite network uses a CDMA spread-spectrum technique where the low-bitrate message data is encoded with a
high-rate pseudo-random (PRN) sequence that is different for each satellite. The receiver must be aware of the PRN
codes for each satellite to reconstruct the actual message data. The C/A code, for civilian use, transmits data at
1.023 million chips per second, whereas the P code, for U.S. military use, transmits at 10.23 million chips per
second. The L1 carrier is modulated by both the C/A and P codes, while the L2 carrier is only modulated by the
P code.[57] The P code can be encrypted as a so-called P(Y) code which is only available to military equipment with
a proper decryption key. Both the C/A and P(Y) codes impart the precise time-of-day to the user.
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Navigation equations
The receiver uses messages received from four satellites to determine the satellite positions and time sent. The x, y,
and z components of position and the time sent are designated as where the subscript i denotes the
satellite and has the value 1, 2, 3, or 4. Knowing when the message was received , the receiver computes the
message's transit time as . Assuming the message traveled at the speed of light (c) the distance traveled,
is . Knowing the distance from receiver to satellite and the satellite's position implies that the
receiver is on the surface of a sphere centered at the satellite's position. Thus the receiver is at or near the intersection
of the surfaces of four spheres. In the ideal case of no errors, the receiver is at the intersection of the surfaces of four
spheres. Excluding the unrealistic case (for GPS purposes) of two coincident spheres, the surfaces of two intersecting
spheres is either a point (if they merely touch) or a circle as depicted in the illustration below. Two of the points at
which the surfaces of the spheres intersect are clearly marked on the figure. The distance between these two points is
the diameter of the circle of intersection.
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This can be seen more clearly by considering a side view of the intersecting spheres. This view would match the
figure because of the symmetry of the spheres. A view from any horizontal direction would look exactly the same.
Therefore the diameter as seen from all directions is the same and thus the surfaces actually do intersect in a circle.
The article trilateration algebraically confirms this geometric argument that the two sphere surfaces intersect in a
circle.
Having found that two sphere surfaces intersect in a circle, we now consider how the intersection of the first two
sphere surfaces, the circle, intersect with the third sphere. A circle and sphere surface intersect at zero, one or two
points. For the GPS problem we are concerned with the case of two points of intersection. Another figure, Surface of
Sphere Intersecting a Circle (not a solid disk) at Two Points, is shown below to aid in visualizing this intersection.
Trilateration algebraically confirms this geometric observation. The ambiguity of two points of intersection of three
sphere surfaces can be resolved by noting which point is closest to the fourth sphere surface.
Having provided a discussion of how sphere surfaces intersect, we now formulate the equations for the case when
errors are present.
Let denote the clock error or bias, the amount by which the receiver's clock is off. The receiver has four
unknowns, the three components of GPS receiver position and the clock bias . The equation of the
sphere surfaces are given by:
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Another useful form of these equations is in terms of pseudoranges, which are the approximate ranges based on the
receiver clock's uncorrected time so that . Then the equations becomes:
four linear equations derived from the quadratic equations above to obtain .
[63]
The Newton-Raphson method is more rapidly convergent than other methods of numerical root finding. A
disadvantage of this multidimensional root finding method as compared to single dimensional root findiing is that,
"There are no good general methods for solving systems of more than one nonlinear equations."[63] For a more
detailed description of the mathematics see Multidimensional Newton Raphson.
• When more than four satellites are available, the calculation can use the four best or more than four, considering
number of channels, processing capability, and geometric dilution of precision (GDOP). Using more than four is
an over-determined system of equations with no unique solution, which must be solved by least-squares or a
similar technique.[60] If all visible satellites are used, the results are as good as or better than using the four best.
Errors can be estimated through the residuals. With each combination of four or more satellites, a GDOP factor
can be calculated, based on the relative sky directions of the satellites used.[64] As more satellites are picked up,
pseudoranges from various 4-way combinations can be processed to add more estimates to the location and clock
offset. The receiver then takes the weighted average of these positions and clock offsets. After the final location
and time are calculated, the location is expressed in a specific coordinate system such as latitude and longitude,
using the WGS 84 geodetic datum or a country-specific system.[65]
• Finally, results from other positioning systems such as GLONASS or the upcoming Galileo can be incorporated
or used to check the result. (By design, these systems use the same frequency bands, so much of the receiver
circuitry can be shared, though the decoding is different.)
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Assume the message travels at the speed of light, then the pseudorange satisfies the equation:
equation 1, there is a residual, . Transforming to the right hand side of the equation produces,
A solution will have been obtained when is zero or sufficiently close to zero for .
In order to linearize equation 2, the partial derivatives are computed as:
where
Linearizing the right hand side of equation 2 about the approximate solution, there results
where is the residual due to linearization, which is in addition to the residual, , due to an approximate
solution.
In order to drive closer to zero choose the values such that
Substituting and transposing to the left hand side of the equation, there results
Equations 6 provide four linear equations in four unknowns, the delta terms. They are in a form for solution. Using
the values of and determined by this linear equation solution,
is evaluated using:
from equations 7 into equations 2, set in equations 7, and reevaluate the residuals in equations 2. This
procedure is repeated until the residuals are sufficiently small in magnitude.
Ionospheric effects ±5
Multipath distortion ±1
C/A ±6.7
P(Y) ±6.0
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These UERE errors are given as ± errors thereby implying that they are unbiased or zero mean errors. These UERE
errors are therefore used in computing standard deviations. The standard deviation of the error in receiver position,
, is computed by multiplying PDOP (Position Dilution Of Precision) by , the standard deviation of the user
equivalent range errors. is computed by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of the individual
component standard deviations.
PDOP is computed as a function of receiver and satellite positions. A detailed description of how to calculate PDOP
is given in the section, geometric dilution of precision computation (GDOP).
for the C/A code is given by:
The standard deviation of the error in estimated receiver position , again for the C/A code is given by:
The error diagram on the left shows the inter relationship of indicated receiver position, true receiver position, and
the intersection of the four sphere surfaces.
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the C/A code. Since GPS signals propagate at the speed of light, this represents an error of about 3 meters.
This component of position accuracy can be improved by a factor of 10 using the higher-chiprate P(Y) signal.
Assuming the same one percent of bit pulse width accuracy, the high-frequency P(Y) signal results in an accuracy of
or about 30 centimeters.
Atmospheric effects
Atmospheric inconsistencies affect the speed of the GPS signals as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere,
especially the ionosphere. Correcting these errors is a significant challenge to improving position accuracy. These
effects are smallest for overhead satellites and greatest for satellites at the horizon since the path through the
atmosphere is longer (see airmass). Once the receiver's approximate location is known, a mathematical model can
estimate and compensate for these errors.
Ionospheric microwave signal delay depends on its frequency. This phenomenon is known as dispersion and can be
calculated from measurements of delays for two or more frequency bands, allowing delays at other frequencies to be
estimated.[66] Some military and survey-grade civilian receivers calculate atmospheric dispersion from the different
delays in the L1 and L2 frequencies, and apply a more precise correction. This can be done in civilian receivers
without decrypting the P(Y) signal carried on L2, by tracking the carrier wave instead of the modulated code. To
facilitate this on lower cost receivers, a new civilian code signal on L2, called L2C, was added to the Block IIR-M
satellites, first launched in 2005. It allows a direct comparison of the L1 and L2 signals using the coded signal
instead of the carrier wave.
Ionospheric effects generally change slowly, and can be averaged over time. Those for any particular geographical
area can be easily calculated by comparing the measured position to a known surveyed location. This correction is
also valid for other receivers in the same general location. Several systems send this information over radio or other
links to allow L1-only receivers to make ionospheric corrections. The ionospheric data are transmitted via satellite in
Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) such as WAAS (available in North America and Hawaii), EGNOS
(Europe and Asia) or MSAS (Japan), which transmits it on the GPS frequency using a special pseudo-random noise
sequence (PRN), so only one receiver and antenna are required.
Humidity also causes a variable delay, resulting in errors similar to ionospheric delay, but occurring in the
troposphere. This effect is both more localized and changes more quickly than ionospheric effects, and is not
frequency dependent. These traits make precise measurement and compensation of humidity errors more difficult
than ionospheric effects.
Changes in receiver altitude also change the delay, due to the signal passing through less of the atmosphere at higher
elevations. Since the receiver computes its approximate altitude, this error is relatively simple to correct, either by
applying a function regression or correlating margin of atmospheric error to ambient pressure using a barometric
altimeter.
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Multipath effects
GPS signals can be affected by multipath issues, where the radio signals reflect off surrounding terrain; buildings,
canyon walls, hard ground, etc. These delayed signals can cause inaccuracy. A variety of techniques, most notably
narrow correlator spacing, mitigate multipath errors. For long delay multipath, the receiver itself can recognize the
wayward signal and discard it. To address shorter delay multipath from the signal reflecting off the ground,
specialized antennae (e.g., a choke ring antenna) may be used to reduce the signal power as received by the antenna.
Short delay reflections are harder to filter out because they interfere with the true signal, causing effects almost
indistinguishable from routine fluctuations in atmospheric delay.
Multipath effects are much less severe in moving vehicles. When the antenna is moving, false solutions using
reflected signals quickly fail to converge and only the direct signals result in stable solutions.
, is given by:
where x, y, and z denote the position of the receiver and and denote the position of satellite i. These x, y,
and z components may be components in a North, East, Down coordinate system a South, East, Up coordinate
system or other convenient system. Formulate the matrix A as:
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The first three elements of each row of A are the components of a unit vector from the receiver to the indicated
satellite. The elements in the fourth column are c where c denotes the speed of light. Formulate the matrix, Q, as
The Greek letter is used quite often where we have used d. However the elements of the Q matrix do not represent
variances and covariances as they are defined in probability and statistics. Instead they are strictly geometric terms.
Therefore d as in dilution of precision is used. PDOP, TDOP and GDOP are given by
, and
[71]
, are both dependent on the coordinate system used. To correspond to the local horizon plane and
the local vertical, x, y, and z should denote positions in either a North, East, Down coordinate system or a South,
East, Up coordinate system.
where and are the errors in pseudoranges 1 through 4 respectively. This equation comes from
linearizing the equation relating pseudoranges to receiver position, satellite positions, and receiver clock errors as
shown in.[73] Multiplying both sides by there results
.
Post multiplying the matrices on both sides of equation (2) by the corresponding matrices in equation (3), there
results
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Taking the expected value of both sides and taking the non-random matrices outside the expectation operator, E,
there results:
Assuming the pseudorange errors are uncorrelated and have the same variance, the covariance matrix on the right
side can be expressed as a scalar times the identity matrix. Thus
since
Note: since
From equation (7), it follows that the variances of indicated receiver position and time are
and
The remaining position and time error variance terms follow in a straightforward manner.
Selective availability
GPS includes a (currently disabled) feature called Selective Availability (SA) that adds intentional, time varying
errors of up to 100 meters (328 ft) to the publicly available navigation signals. This was intended to deny an enemy
the use of civilian GPS receivers for precision weapon guidance.
SA errors are actually pseudorandom, generated by a cryptographic algorithm from a classified seed key available
only to authorized users (the U.S. military, its allies and a few other users, mostly government) with a special
military GPS receiver. Mere possession of the receiver is insufficient; it still needs the tightly controlled daily key.
During the 1990-91 Gulf War, the shortage of military GPS units caused many U.S. troops and their families to buy
readily–available civilian units. SA significantly impeded the U.S. military's battlefield use of GPS, so the military
disabled SA for the duration of the war. Also during the 1990s, the FAA requested that the military turn off SA
permanently to save millions of dollars annually to maintain their own radio navigation systems.[74]
Because SA affects every GPS receiver in a given area almost equally, a fixed station with an accurately known
position can measure the SA error values and transmit them to the local GPS receivers so they may correct their
position fixes. This is called Differential GPS or DGPS. DGPS also corrects for several other important sources of
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GPS errors, particularly ionospheric delay, so it continues to be widely used even though SA has been turned off.
Typical SA errors were about 50 meters (164 ft) horizontally and about 100 m vertically. Widespread availability of
DGPS nullified SA, leading to its demise on May 1, 2000.[75]
DGPS services are widely available from both commercial and government sources. The latter include WAAS and
the U.S. Coast Guard's network of LF marine navigation beacons. The accuracy of the corrections depends on the
distance between the user and the DGPS receiver. As distance increases, the errors at the two sites will not correlate
as well, resulting in less precise differential corrections.
Per the directive, the induced error of SA was changed to add no error to the public signals (C/A code). Clinton's
executive order required SA to be set to zero by 2006; it happened in 2000 once the U.S. military developed a new
way to deny GPS (and other navigation services) to hostile forces in a specific area without affecting the rest of the
world or its own military systems.[74]
One interesting side effect of the Selective Availability hardware is the capability to add corrections to the outgoing
signal of the GPS cesium and rubidium atomic clocks to an accuracy of approximately 2 × 10−13. This represented a
significant improvement over the clocks' raw accuracy.
On 19 September 2007, the United States Department of Defense announced that GPS III satellites need not
implement SA,[76] eventually making the policy permanent.[77] [78]
Antispoofing
Another restriction on GPS, antispoofing, remains on. This encrypts the P-code so that it cannot be mimicked by a
transmitter sending false information. Few civilian receivers have ever used the P-code, and the accuracy attainable
with the public C/A code is so much better than originally expected (especially with DGPS) that the antispoof policy
has relatively little effect on most civilian users. Turning off antispoof would primarily benefit surveyors and some
scientists who need extremely precise positions for experiments such as tracking tectonic plate motion.
Relativity
GPS positioning is one of the few everyday events in which relativistic
effects must be accounted for.[79] For example, satellite clocks are
tuned to 10.22999999543 MHz before launch, to compensate for the
effects of gravitational time dilation and achieve a frequency of
precisely 10.23 MHz once in orbit.[80] Some other relativistic effects
(such as gravitational time delays, frequency shifts of clocks in
satellites due to earth's quadrupole potential, and space curvature) are
too small to affect the system at current accuracy levels.[81]
of light. The time dilation effect has been measured and verified using GPS.
The gravitational frequency shift effect on GPS due to general relativity is that a clock closer to a massive object
runs slower than a clock farther away. Applied to GPS, the receivers are much closer to Earth than the satellites,
causing GPS clocks to be faster by a factor of 5×10−10, or about 45.9 μs/day.
When combining time dilation and gravitational frequency shift, the discrepancy is about 38 microseconds per day, a
difference of 4.465 parts in 1010.[82] Without correction (i.e. without the solution algorithm correction for the initial
pseudorange errors), errors in position determination of roughly 10 km/day would accumulate. In addition the
elliptical, rather than perfectly circular, satellite orbits cause the time dilation and gravitational frequency shift
effects to vary with time. This eccentricity effect causes the clock rate difference between a GPS satellite and a
receiver to increase or decrease depending on the satellite's velocity orbital altitude.
To offset the discrepancy, the frequency standard on board each satellite is given a rate offset prior to launch, making
it run slightly slower than the desired frequency on Earth; specifically, at 10.22999999543 MHz instead of
10.23 MHz.[83] Tuning the atomic clocks on GPS satellites makes the system a real-world engineering application of
relativity.[84] Placing atomic clocks on artificial satellites to test Einstein's general theory was proposed by
Friedwardt Winterberg in 1955.[85]
Sagnac distortion
GPS must also compensate for the Sagnac effect. The GPS time scale is defined in an inertial system but
observations are processed in an Earth-centered, Earth-fixed (ECEF) co-rotating system, a system in which
simultaneity is not uniquely defined. A Lorentz transformation converts from the inertial system to the ECEF
system. The resulting correction has opposite algebraic signs for satellites in the Eastern and Western celestial
hemispheres. Ignoring this effect produces an east-west error on the order of hundreds of nanoseconds, or tens of
meters in position.[86]
Augmentation
Integrating external information into the calculation process can materially improve accuracy. Such augmentation
systems are generally named or described based on how the information arrives. Some systems transmit additional
error information (such as clock drift, ephemera, or ionospheric delay), others characterize prior errors, while a third
group provides additional navigational or vehicle information.
Examples of augmentation systems include the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), European Geostationary
Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) , Differential GPS, Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and Assisted GPS.
Precise monitoring
Accuracy can be improved through precise monitoring and measurement of existing GPS signals in additional or
alternate ways.
The largest remaining error is usually the unpredictable delay through the ionosphere. The spacecraft broadcast
ionospheric model parameters, but errors remain. This is one reason GPS spacecraft transmit on at least two
frequencies, L1 and L2. Ionospheric delay is a well-defined function of frequency and the total electron content
(TEC) along the path, so measuring the arrival time difference between the frequencies determines TEC and thus the
precise ionospheric delay at each frequency.
Military receivers can decode the P(Y)-code transmitted on both L1 and L2. Without decryption keys, it is still
possible to use a codeless technique to compare the P(Y) codes on L1 and L2 to gain much of the same error
information. However, this technique is slow, so it is currently available only on specialized surveying equipment. In
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the future, additional civilian codes are expected to be transmitted on the L2 and L5 frequencies (see GPS
modernization). Then all users will be able to perform dual-frequency measurements and directly compute
ionospheric delay errors.
A second form of precise monitoring is called Carrier-Phase Enhancement (CPGPS). This corrects the error that
arises because the pulse transition of the PRN is not instantaneous, and thus the correlation (satellite-receiver
sequence matching) operation is imperfect. CPGPS utilizes the L1 carrier wave, which has a period of
which is about one-thousandth of the C/A Gold
signal and resolve the uncertainty. The phase difference error in the normal GPS amounts to 2–3 metres (6.6–9.8 ft)
of ambiguity. CPGPS working to within 1% of perfect transition reduces this error to 3 centimeters (1.2 in) of
ambiguity. By eliminating this error source, CPGPS coupled with DGPS normally realizes between 20–30
centimetres (7.9–12 in) of absolute accuracy.
Relative Kinematic Positioning (RKP) is a third alternative for a precise GPS-based positioning system. In this
approach, determination of range signal can be resolved to a precision of less than 10 centimeters (3.9 in). This is
done by resolving the number of cycles in which the signal is transmitted and received by the receiver. This can be
accomplished by using a combination of differential GPS (DGPS) correction data, transmitting GPS signal phase
information and ambiguity resolution techniques via statistical tests—possibly with processing in real-time
(real-time kinematic positioning, RTK).
Timekeeping
While most clocks are synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the atomic clocks on the satellites are set
to GPS time. The difference is that GPS time is not corrected to match the rotation of the Earth, so it does not contain
leap seconds or other corrections that are periodically added to UTC. GPS time was set to match Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) in 1980, but has since diverged. The lack of corrections means that GPS time remains at a
constant offset with International Atomic Time (TAI) (TAI - GPS = 19 seconds). Periodic corrections are performed
on the on-board clocks to correct relativistic effects and keep them synchronized with ground clocks.
The GPS navigation message includes the difference between GPS time and UTC, which as of 2009 is 15 seconds
due to the leap second added to UTC December 31, 2008. Receivers subtract this offset from GPS time to calculate
UTC and specific timezone values. New GPS units may not show the correct UTC time until after receiving the UTC
offset message. The GPS-UTC offset field can accommodate 255 leap seconds (eight bits) which, given the current
rate of change of the Earth's rotation (with one leap second introduced approximately every 18 months), should be
sufficient to last until approximately the year 2300.
As opposed to the year, month, and day format of the Gregorian calendar, the GPS date is expressed as a week
number and a seconds-into-week number. The week number is transmitted as a ten-bit field in the C/A and P(Y)
navigation messages, and so it becomes zero again every 1,024 weeks (19.6 years). GPS week zero started at
00:00:00 UTC (00:00:19 TAI) on January 6, 1980, and the week number became zero again for the first time at
23:59:47 UTC on August 21, 1999 (00:00:19 TAI on August 22, 1999). To determine the current Gregorian date, a
GPS receiver must be provided with the approximate date (to within 3,584 days) to correctly translate the GPS date
signal. To address this concern the modernized GPS navigation message uses a 13-bit field, which only repeats every
8,192 weeks (157 years), thus lasting until the year 2137 (157 years after GPS week zero).
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Triple differencing[103] subtracts the receiver difference from time 1 from that of time 2. This eliminates the
ambiguity associated with the integral number of wave lengths in carrier phase provided this ambiguity does not
change with time. Thus the triple difference result eliminates practically all clock bias errors and the integer
ambiguity. Atmospheric delay and satellite ephemeris errors have been significantly reduced. This triple difference
is:
Triple difference results can be used to estimate unknown variables. For example if the position of receiver 1 is
known but the position of receiver 2 unknown, it may be possible to estimate the position of receiver 2 using
numerical root finding and least squares. Triple difference results for three independent time pairs quite possibly will
be sufficient to solve for receiver 2's three position components. This may require the use of a numerical
procedure.[104] [105] An approximation of receiver 2's position is required to use such a numerical method. This
Global Positioning System 28
initial value can probably be provided from the navigation message and the intersection of sphere surfaces. Such a
reasonable estimate can be key to successful multidimensional root finding. Iterating from three time pairs and a
fairly good initial value produces one observed triple difference result for receiver 2's position. Processing additional
time pairs can improve accuracy, overdetermining the answer with multiple solutions. Least squares can estimate an
overdetermined system. Least squares determines the position of receiver 2 which best fits the observed triple
difference results for receiver 2 positions under the criterion of minimizing the sum of the squares.
Other systems
Other satellite navigation systems in use or various states of development include:
• Galileo – a global system being developed by the European Union and other partner countries, planned to be
operational by 2014
• Beidou – People's Republic of China's regional system, covering Asia and the West Pacific[106]
• COMPASS – People's Republic of China's global system, planned to be operational by 2020[107] [108]
• GLONASS – Russia's global navigation system
• IRNSS – India's regional navigation system, planned to be operational by 2012, covering India and Northern
Indian Ocean[109]
• QZSS – Japanese proposed regional system covering only Japan
See also
• The American Practical Navigator - Chapter 11 Satellite Navigation
• GPS/INS
• GSM localization
• GPS signals
• GPS tracking
• GPS navigation software
• High Sensitivity GPS
• List of inventions by the military that are now in mass use
• Navigation paradox
• S-GPS
• SIGI
• Differential GPS
References
• "NAVSTAR GPS User Equipment Introduction" [110] (PDF). US Coast Guard. September 1996.
Further reading
• Parkinson; Spilker (1996). The global positioning system [111]. American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics. ISBN 9781563471063.
External links
• Global Positioning System [112] at the Open Directory Project
• GPS.gov [113]—General public education website created by the U.S. Government
• National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee [114]—Established in 2004 to oversee management of GPS and
GPS augmentations at a national level.
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• USCG Navigation Center [115]—Status of the GPS constellation, government policy, and links to other
references. Also includes satellite almanac data.
• Air Force Space Command GPS Operations Center homepage [116]
• The GPS Program Office (GPS Wing) [117]—Responsible for designing and acquiring the system on behalf of the
US Government.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manual: NAVSTAR HTML [118] and PDF (22.6 MB, 328 pages) [119]
• FAA GPS FAQ [120]
• National Geodetic Survey [121] Orbits for the Global Positioning System satellites in the Global Navigation
Satellite System
• GPS SPS Performance Standard [122]—The official Standard Positioning Service specification (2008 version).
• GPS SPS Performance Standard [123]—The official Standard Positioning Service specification (2001 version).
• GPS PPS Performance Standard [124]—The official Precise Positioning Service specification.
• Satellite Navigation: GPS & Galileo (PDF) [125]—16-page paper about the history and working of GPS, touching
on the upcoming Galileo
• Average Latitude & Longitude of Countries [126]
• "Sources of Errors in GPS" [127]
• GPS and GLONASS Simulation [128](Java applet) Simulation and graphical depiction of space vehicle motion
including computation of dilution of precision (DOP)
• University of New South Wales: Carrier Phase Measurement [129]
• University of New South Wales: Carrier Beat Phase [130]
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