Description

Overview:

Today GPS is critical to positioning, navigation, and timing. The smooth functioning of financial transactions, air traffic, ATMs, cell phones and modern life in general around the world depend on GPS. This very criticality requires continuous modernization. The oldest satellites in the current constellation were launched in the 1990s. If you imagine using a computer of that vintage today, it is not surprising that the system is being substantially updated. Global Positioning System (GPS) is now a part of a growing international con?text-the Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS. This course dives into how GPS and other GNSS systems are designed, how they operate, and the impacts they have on spatial analysis and spatially-enabled systems.

Subject:

Computer Science, Information Science

Level:

High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division, Graduate / Professional, Adult Education

Material Type:

Full Course

Author:

Jan Van Sickle

Provider:

Penn State University

Provider Set:

Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (http:// e-education.psu.edu/oer/)

Date Added:

09/18/2018