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FIGURE 6.1
GPS satellite constellation design, mid-1980s
from R. L. Beard, J. Murray, and J. D. White, “GPS Clock Technology and the Navy PTTI Programs at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory,” in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Applications and Planning Meeting (1986), 50
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 6.2
A GPS collar on “Floggy,” a brown hyena, in Namibia in 2006
photo by Ingrid Wiesel, from “Predicting the influence of land development on brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) movement and activity”
used with permission


 
FIGURE 6.3
The "birdcage" of the US Navy's Transit satellites
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1978


 
FIGURE 6.4
Coverage of Omega lattice charts in the early 1970s: maps were not available gray areas
William Rankin
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


 
FIGURE 6.5
The US Navy's AN/UYK-1 computer for Transit satellite navigation, circa 1961
from Ramo-Woolridge (a division of TRW), AN/UYK-1: A Multiple Purpose Digital Computer, 21 Apr 1961
Public Domain: no copyright notice


 


FIGURE 6.6
Shrinking Transit equipment from Magnavox, 1968 to 1976
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1971, 1978


 
FIGURE 6.7
Omega transmitter locations, 1951–1997

download locations as a GIS layer
William Rankin
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


 
FIGURE 6.8
Proposed network of Omega monitoring stations as of 1978
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1978


 
FIGURE 6.9
A 1975 proposal for “differential” Omega stations in the contiguous United States
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1975


 
FIGURE 6.10
Ground installations for the Transit satellite system
William Rankin
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


 
FIGURE 6.11
A civilian satellite-navigation system designed for NASA, circa 1970
from Leo M. Keane et al., “Global Navigation and Traffic Control Using Satellites,” NASA Technical Report R-342, July 1970,12
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 6.12
A plan for megaregional coverage for a civilian satellite navigation system in a geostationary orbit, mid-1960s
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1966


 
FIGURE 6.13
A plan for near-global civilian coverage from six geostationary satellites, mid-1960s
Navigation (US)
Copyright 1967


 
FIGURE 6.14
Launch and operational status of GPS satellites, 1978–2010

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William Rankin
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


 


FIGURE 6.15
The shrinking size of GPS equipment: the "Manpack" of 1978 compared with the DAGR of 2004
from Steven Lazar, “Modernization and the Move to GPS III,” Crosslink 3 (Summer 2002), 45, and Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Copyright 1978?, 2008?


 


FIGURE 6.16
OpenStreetMap data, before and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake
adapted from Mikel Maron's screencaptures
Creative Commons BY-SA


 
FIGURE 6.17
Shindand airfield, Afghanistan, after an American GPS-guided bomb strike, October 2001
US Department of Defense
Public Domain: US government


 
FIGURE 6.18
GPS augmentation systems as of 2015: Differential GPS (DGPS) and Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS)

download DGPS as GIS layers
William Rankin
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


 
FIGURE 6.19
GPS ground installations: original US-controlled sites, with more recent stations in other countries
William Rankin
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