GPS Navigation Systems for allSituations

Since the introduction of Global Positioning Systemsand the systembeing fully operational, GPS systems aid worldwide navigation, landsurveying and vehicle tracking. GPS systems are at the core of transportation systems such as aviation, maritime and land navigation.Commerce and agricultural businesses rely on GPS systems for theiraccuracy and locations. GPS is a very valuable tool for industry.GPS systems offer a wide variety of functionality and are becomingmore and more popular in the worldwide transport industry. They arealso penetrating into the domestic markets with in-car satellitenavigation systems and hand held devices rapidly growing in unit salesyear on year. The most common types of satellite navigation equipment are:-

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Portable Satellite Navigation Systems for cars

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Handheld GPS devices

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Mobile phone GPS

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Built – in Satellite Navigation Systems for carsGPS Systems or Global Positioning Systems to give them their fullname are one of the world’s most widely utilized communication,positioning and time reference technologies. This technology is rapidlyexpanding into domestic homes, transportation, recreation and thecellular phone arenas.GPS technologyis never far away from oureveryday lives and it will become an increasingly integrated part of ourongoing development within our homes, offices and transportation.By receiving coded reference points from a network of satellitescirculating earth (24 in all), GPS systems provide an accurate locationpoint on the globe. These reference points are produced in longitudeand latitude giving detailed information down to minutes and seconds. To illustrate this process, take the latitude specification of 13°19'43″ Nand translate it into 13 degrees 19 minutes and 43 seconds North. The following are GPS system results for well known global referencepoints of interest:-

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Arctic Circle: 66° 33′ 39″ N

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Tropic of Cancer: 23° 26′ 21″ N

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Tropic of Capricorn: 23° 26′ 21″ S