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Best
Overall Sites
Space Related Sites, Satellite Launch Schedules and
Information
Tracking and Prediction On-Line
Government Agencies
Associations, Organizations, and Educational Institutions
Surveying, Geodesy, Geographics, and Geography
On-Line Interactive Map and Mapping-Related Programs, plus
Others
GIS
Earth Observations and Data
Planetary and Solar Related Sites
Weather and Atmosphere Related Sites
Timing
GLONASS
Galileo
GPS Industry
Miscellaneous
Best
Overall Sites
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Global
Positioning System - Serving The World
GPS.gov. Excellent site includes an overview of the three segments,
sections on augmentation systems, applications, technical information
and some policy issues.
Global
Positioning System Overview
One of the most comprehensive on-line general GPS related sites in existence. Complete
with optional graphics. This site is a “ must visit” . Compiled and authored by
Peter H. Dana.
The
Geographer’ s Craft
The University of Colorado at Boulder. Full course including lecture notes, lab exercises &
glossary.
Introduction to GPS Applications
Another excellent overview of GPS. Compiled and authored by John Beadles. Recently
relocated.
NMEA-0183 and GPS Information
By Peter Bennett, and excellent site for NMEA and GPS info. Complete NMEA data is not
available on the web, but there is a lot here. Lots of free programs.
SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
Excellent space related site with many HOT links! You could spend a few days here.
Includes and internal search engine.
US Coast Guard
Home of the U.S. radio differential network. USCG monitors and is in charge of public
relations for GPS. Many features including GPS, OMEGA, LORAN, safety and other related
sites. GPS portions include almanac, status news and much more data. Excellent site.
US
Airforce GPS Wing
GPS Wing provides the coordination of GPS and runs the ground and space segments.
Fact Sheets:
GPS
Overview
Public
ICDs - Interface Control Document
PRN
Code Assignments
GEO
Community Web Site
The GeoCommunity Web site is the
premier resource for GIS/CAD professionals. It's a must visit for FREE downloads from over
a terabyte of geospatial datasets, a high-powered, industry-specific search engine, GIS
industry news, discussion forums, classifieds, and software utilities.
Peterson
Airforce Base- Delta II Launch Vehicles - Facts on the Delta
II rockets that take GPS satellites into space.
Waypoints
- This site lists waypoints (of interest) for the U.S. and other areas
of the world. Let's you submit your favorite waypoints to share with
others. Also includes links to other sources of GPS information.
NOAA
GPS Toolbox - Source code
and algorithms to encourage a dialog among GPS programmers about
source code and algorithms used for a variety of applications.
GLONASS
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Interactive GPS & GLONASS
Satellite Prediction
Russian
Space Agency - Information-Analytical Centre
GLONASS
Control Center (formerly NAGUs)
Galileo
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Galileo
Joint Undertaking
European
Space Agency (ESA) - News and information on Galileo. Great Site!
Directorate-General
Energy and Transport
Government
Agencies
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NGS (National Geodetic Survey)
Cartography, surveying, mapping, including CORS, ephemeris, orbital data and much more
NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)
USNO (United States Naval Observatory)
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
ESA (European Space Agency)
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Navy
U.S. Marine Corps
U.S. Coast Guard
USGS
(United States Geological Survey)
Ask
the USGS
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration)
FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Formerly NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency)
Formerly called DMA (Defense Mapping Agency)
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
NAWCWPNS (Naval Air Warfare Center
Weapons Division)
The White House
FAA-GPS
National Space-Based Positioning,
Navigation and Timing Exectutive Committee
Replaces the Interagency GPS Executive Board (IGEB)
NDGPS home USCG Navigation Center
DGPS
NHTSA - National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Planetary
& Solar Related Sites
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The Space Environment Center,
NOAA
Monitors and forecasts solar and geophysical activity conditions that are known to have an
impact on GPS.
Sun Spot Information
Sun Spot News,
Stories and updates from NOAA
Planets and the Solar System
- 9 8 Planets!
Another excellent site which has more content than can be listed here. A lot of real time
info. Tours of the solar system. The Sun, planets asteroids and comets.
Weather
and Atmosphere Related Sites
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AccuWeather
ESOC
Ionosphere Plots
Ionosphere
Weather
Bug
Solar
Max
The
Sunspot Cycle
NASA
Sunspot Chart
The
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
Space
Weather Bureau
Space
Related Sites, Satellite Launch Schedules and Information
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Space Calendar
Excellent launch schedules and daily celestial events with special features and archives.
From NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab.
Launch
Schedules & Future Launch Systems
Shuttle and other launch schedules. Experimental vehicles.
NASA Today
NASA up-to-date headlines
Space On-line
By Florida Today newspaper. Great site for news, launch schedules at various launch sites.
Links to other space related sites.
The Satellite’ s Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of over 1700 satellites. complete with fact sheets containing basic info. on
satellites.
Spaceflight
Now News and information on space vehicles and launches. Very up to
date and cool site.
Satellite Navigation
Positioning Lab
Tracking
& Prediction On-line
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Interactive GPS & GLONASS
Satellite Prediction
GPS Satellite Almanacs and SEM Program
ARINC
Status
page
GPS
constellation status - Schriever AFB
Satellite Tracking -
From Heavens Above .com
Satellite Tracking -
From Moving Satellites .com
Surveying
, Geodesy, Geographics and Geography
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USGS (U.S.
Geodetic Survey)
NGS (National Geodetic Survey)
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov
A part of NOAA this site combines a lot of information and links related to cartography,
surveying, mapping, including CORS, ephemeris, orbital data and much more. This site has a
lot to offer.
GPS Precise Orbit Data
From NGS and NOAA, accurate and timely GPS satellite ephemeride data.
Coordinate Transform Page
How to Read the Universal
Transverse Mercator (UTM) Grid
University of Calgary
- For general informaion
Department of Geomatics Engineering. One of Canada’ s foremost educational
institutions on GPS for Geomatics Engineering. Information on KIS conferences.
For the PLAN Research Group (Position
Location and Navigation)
University of New Brunswick
One of Canada’ s foremost educational institutions on GPS for Geomatics Engineering.
Very complete, detailed site down to the photo album.
Geodesy and Geomatics Hotlinks
Too many to list. International links.
The
Geographer’ s Craft
The Univ. of Colorado at Boulder. Full course including lecture notes, lab exercises &
glossary
U.S. GeoData
GIS, Software, SDTS, DEM and much more. USGS
Ordinance Survey
Great Britain’ s national mapping agency which covers the production, maintenance and
marketing of a range of maps (digital and paper) and other related information.
ACSM
(American Congress on
Surveying and Mapping)
A professional organization representing those who communicate the Earth’ s spatial
info. using precisely prepared plats, charts, maps and digital cartographic and related
data systems.
List of Links
compiled by ACSM - American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.
Land
Surveying and Geomatics
Geomatics Resources with a specialization in land surveying.
Geography Guide at The Mining Company
Very cool site for basic geography and geodesy. Also a lot of " to do" links and
information sites.
On-Line
Resources for Surveying and Geomatics
Access to and Manipulation of NGS CORS
Data
Benchmark locator by
NGS
Coordinates
CORS
coordinates
CORS
Data
GIS
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GEO
Community Web Site
The GeoCommunity Web site is the
premier resource for GIS/CAD professionals. It's a must visit for FREE downloads from over
a terabyte of geospatial datasets, a high-powered, industry-specific search engine, GIS
industry news, discussion forums, classifieds, and software utilities.
Stanford
University
Digital GIS data
and information. Links to other GIS sites
Earth
Observations and Data
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NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration)
Many useful sites, services and software for weather, marine, atmospheric and earth based
services
NOS (National Ocean Service)
A part of NOAA which primarily deals with U.S. coastal and oceanic environment.
NEOS (National Earth Orientation Service)
Coordinates, collects, analyzes, and distributes data from various operational U.S.
programs that monitor variations in the orientation of the Earth.
NGDC
(National
Geophysical Data Center)
NOAA provides DMSP sat. data, Glaciology, marine geo. & geophysics, solid Earth
Geophysics and much more.
National Geomagnetism Program
Monitors and predicts the Earth’ s magnetic field throughout Canada
EarthExplorer
USG
Associations,
Organizations and Educational Institutions
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Institute of Navigation
Professional society dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of navigation.
Hosts 3 meetings a year including the worlds largest GPS meeting, ION-GPS. Also
hosts Navtech Seminars GPS tutorials.
Royal Institute of
Navigation
United Kingdom's Royal Institute Of Navigation (RIN) is a professional
society whose objectives are to unite in one body those who are
concerned with or who are interested in navigation and to further its
development.
International GNSS Service (IGS)
- along with a multinational membership of organizations and agencies,
provides GPS orbits, tracking data, and other high-quality GPS data.
University of Calgary
Department of Geomatics Engineering.
One of Canada’ s foremost educational institutions on GPS for Geomatics Engineering.
Information on KIS conferences.
University of New Brunswick
One of Canada’ s foremost educational institutions on GPS for Geomatics Engineering.
Very complete, detailed site down to the photo album.
Industry and Non-Profit Organizations
This extensive site by John Beadles is being revised, links to the exact documents will be
posted later. Too much to list.
Oddens’ s Bookmarks
More maps and mapping related data than you will ever know what to do with. A must for
mapping applications.
GESS
George Mason
University (Department of Geography and Earth Systems Science)
Many mapping applications, maps and projects
Ordinance Survey
Great Britain’ s national mapping agency which covers the production, maintenance and
marketing of a range of maps (digital and paper) and other related information.
AIAA
(American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
The world’ s leading professional society in the broad areas of aeronautics and
astronautics.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Advancing the theory and practice of electrical, electronics and computer engineering and
computer science.
UNAVCO
- The University NAVSTAR Consortium. Supporting research into earth
processes via high precision geodesy with GPS.
Galileo
- Information site for the European Union project
The Canadian Coast Guard Home
Page
The Radio Technical
Commission For Maritime Services
Timing
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USNO United States Naval Observatory
USNO (U.S. Naval Observatory)
USNO master clock, computer time services, world time zones, satellite time transfer,
PTTI, sun/moon rise etc. and much more.
USNO GPS Data & Information
USNO timing related to GPS. Other GPS related data as well.
GPS Time Series
Variety of GPS time based references.
Systems of Time
An explanation of different times and time references includes MJD current time.
Time Synchronization
Software
Wide variety of timing software for UNIX, DOS, Win 3.x, 95, NT, Netware, Mac, OS2,
Netscape, Java and wristwatch platforms. Includes network adjustment software. Too much to
list.
NIST Network Time
Service
On-Line
Interactive Map and Mapping-Related Programs, Plus Other Real-Time Programs
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Latitude/Longitude
Look-up
Earth Viewer
View a map of the Earth observing day and night regions from such vantage points as the
sun, moon or Earth itself.
BigBook
Search for phone numbers and you can also pull up maps searching by exact street address
or zip code.
Map Quest
Interactive mapping program which will allow display of points of interests as well al
your requested location on a map.
GIS Date Depot
Coordinate data
sheets
Industry
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Lockheed Martin - Information on the Block IIR
Satellite
Boeing
- Great Information and images on the Block IIF Satellites.
Miscellaneous
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Inside GNSS Magazine
A fresh perspective in to the GNSS industry including GPS, GLONASS and
Galileo.
GPS World Magazine
Monthly GPS magazine dedicated to GPS and related fields.
Kalman filter links
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/kalmanLinks.htm
JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
FGCS-Selective Availability Removal
plots
Big Yellow
Search for Business phone numbers, www pages, e-mail addresses, residence phone numbers
for the United States. Forget “ 411” .
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