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Global Positioning System (GPS), as define by Britannica Concise Encyclopedia:
”Precise, satellite-based navigation and location system developed for U.S. military use but available to the general public with the use of proper equipment.
GPS is a fleet of more than 24 communications satellites that transmit signals globally around the clock. With a GPS receiver one can quickly and accurately determine the latitude, longitude, and in most cases the altitude of a point on or above the Earth's surface.
A single GPS receiver can find its own position in seconds from GPS satellite signals, to an accuracy of 10 meters; accuracy within one meter can be achieved with sophisticated military-specification receivers. This capability has reduced the cost of acquiring spatial data for making maps while increasing cartographic accuracy.
Other applications include measuring the movement of polar ice sheets, or even finding the best auto route between given points”.
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GPS begins in US military in the year of 1960s and has been tested in Gulf War 1991. It is seen as cause of achievement for accurate bombing, thus causing it to be applied commercially in the year 1990s.
Market for satellite navigation system is rapidly expanding. Garmin for example, the largest maker in US see an increase more than double on the automobile navigation equipment in 2006 and this technology now seen has achieved market’s mass level product.
Another good news, as reported by GPS Industrial Council (a trade group from Washington), GPS devices sale are currently sprouting. Global market sale for this device has achieved approximately US$15 billion in 2006, and this amount keep increasing 20 to 30% every year.
As we understood, in this era of technology, a lot of vehicles or transportation such as aircraft, train, sailing-ship, human, rocket, or even our beloved pets which need to move would use navigation signal from GPS.
Any country which solely depends on GPS would be trapped deep in the 'geopolitics trap', dominated by US. Theoretically, US could deny any navigation signal to countries such as Iran and North Korea, not only during war crisis but also as a form of high technology economic sanction, which could affect power, banking system and other industry.
But last year on Dec 2007, Reuters has reported that Russia successfully launched a rocket carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS.
“The network must be perfect, better than GPS and cheaper if we want consumer choose Glonass,” said Putin during a state government meeting of stated system, report news agency Interfax.
A huge profit is expected for those willing to grab a chance. However that’s not a main reason why Russia looking interested in this spy equipment technology.
Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System), a system which created by Russia and now trying to overcome US's control in navigation satellite. The system was expected to operate globally at 2009 and their main mission is to compete with GPS (Global Positioning System) from US.
Russia trying to involve in this war of navigation technology was mainly due to a worry that US would monopoly this system. The system which, was developed and control by the army of US – anytime they have full control to switch off GPS signal during any event of the crisis.
Today, many consumers are willing to pay more for the devices that can read Russia navigation signal, because there is a case where BlackBerry’s GPS device loses its signal on the highway.
Although in terms of technology, Russia's product has achieved the wanted accuracy, few of the products in market were found pretty hard to be used. For example, signal receiver system (M-103), theoretically it was far preferable from GPS especially in a robust case such as in the wooded stone area.
This spy equipment that look like walkie talkie, however very consumer impersonal and difficult to bring around.
End of story from Spy Equipment 4u.
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