GPS and Navigation

Introductions and Overviews

• Overview of the Global Positioning System, by Peter H. Dana, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin
  • Map Projections
  • Geodetic Datums
  • Coordinate Systems
• Space Environment Center SEC (NOAA), USA
  • Navigation Systems, USA
    • GPS
    • Loran-C
  • Glossary of Solar-Terrestrial Terms
• Glossary of GPS Terms, NAVTECH GPS
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, USA
  • Time and Frequency Division
    • Glossary of Time and Frequency Terms
• WGS84 Earth Gravity Model, NIMA
• International Celestial Reference Frame ICRF
  • Metapage U.S. Navy
• International Terrestrial Reference Frame ITRF
  • NOAA/NGS Info
  • LAREG Info
• CalSKY
  • Compute Satellite Constellation and DOP
  • Compute GPS time and week, and current time definitions

Organizations and Information Services

• Swiss Institute of Navigation
• IAU International Astronomical Union
• IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• IAG International Association of Geodesy
• CDDIS Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
• Geodetic Information System GeodIS (DGFI, Munich)
• EUROLAS Data Center EDC (DGFI, Munich)
• GPS Information and Observation System GIBS (IfAG, Leipzig)
  • Visibility Calculations
• National Earth Orientation Service (NEOS)
• International Earth Rotation Service (IERS)
  • Bulletin C: Leap Seconds in UTC

• NAVSTAR Global Positioning System, U.S. Navy
• NAVSTAR GPS Info
• Time Service Dept.
• Satellite Visibility
• GPS Week Number
• European Space Agency: Galileo and EGNOS, Europe
• Galileo Program, Europe
• National Imagery and Mapping Agency, USA
• Geodesy and Geophysics
• U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center
            o GPS
            o DGPS
• National Satellite Test Bed Home Page, USA
• National Geodetic Survey, Silver Spring (MD), USA
• Space Environment Center SEC (NOAA), USA
• Geodetic Data Archive Facility, ASI, Italy
• JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS)
  • Southern California Integrated GPS Networks
  • Global GPS Time Series
• Coordinational Scientific Information Center of Russian Space Forces, Moscow, Russia
  • GLONASS (Wikipedia)
• GLONASS Updated Information Service (GUIS), DLR/DFD, Germany
• Swiss Federal Office of Topography
  • GPS/DGPS Services
  • Information GEO
  • Swiss Positioning Service
• AUSLIG Australian Surveying & Land Information Group
  • Geodesy
  • GPS
• Intergovernmental Commitee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM)

Institutes

• LAREG Research Laboratory in Geodesy, Paris, France
  • ITRF
  • EUREF
• University Navstar Consortium, Bolder (CO), USA
  • Member Institutions
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry
    • Geodesy and Geodynamics Lab
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Department of Rural Engineering (DGR)
    • Geodetic Engineering Laboratory
• IfAG Institute for Applied Geodesy, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
• Deutsches Geodatisches Forschungsinstitut DGFI, Munich, Germany
• GeoForschungszentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
  • Kinematik und Dynamik der Erde
• GPS Page, Delft University of Technology , NL

Companies

• Overview on GPS Suppliers and Services, by Richard B. Langley, University of New Brunswick, USA
• NAVTECH GPS Store
• Premier Electronics, UK
• MPN Components Inc., Henniker, NH, USA
• Leica, Heerbrugg, Switzerland
• Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
• Ashtech Inc., USA
• TOPCON, Paramus (NJ), USA
• Geotronics, Danderyd, Sweden
• GPSoft, Athens, Ohio, USA
• Communications Systems International, Calgary, Canada
• NovAtel, Calgary, Canada
• allnav gmbh, Zürich, Switzerland
• Applanix Corporation, Markham, ON, Canada
• http://www.swissat.ch/, Samstagern, Switzerland
• Bucher+Walt, St.-Blaise / NE, Switzerland
• Sintrade AG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
• TOPTEC, Zürich, Switzerland

Metapages

• NAVTECH GPS
  • NAVTECH GPS Store Web Links Very useful Metapage!
• GPS, GLONASS and Geodesy, by A. Leick, University of Maine, USA
  • Alphabetical List of Web Sites
• GPS World Magazine