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Hence the satellites' clocks gain approximately 38,640 nanoseconds a day or 38.6 μs per day due to relativistic effects in total. In order to compensate for this gain, a GPS clock's frequency needs to be slowed by the fraction: 5.307 × 10 −10 – 8.349 × 10 −11 = 4.472 × 10 −10
Clock synchronization: the accuracy of GPS time signals (±10 ns) [114] is second only to the atomic clocks they are based on, and is used in applications such as GPS disciplined oscillators. Disaster relief/emergency services: many emergency services depend upon GPS for location and timing capabilities.
Better: USB GPS receiver with the NMEA 0183 GPZDA sentence sent at least once a second. The developer of the Windows software NMEATime2 recommends GPS units with the U-blox 7 receiver, [4] and this software uses a control loop to analyze the text of the GPS timing sentence, and claims to achieve 1 ms accuracy with the technique.
The accuracy of quartz clocks in general is worse (i.e. more) than one part in a million; thus, if the clock hasn't been corrected for a week, the deviation may be so great as to result in a reported location not on the Earth, but outside the Moon's orbit. Even if the clock is corrected, a second later the clock may no longer be usable for ...
Calling a clock the most accurate ever may sound like hyperbole, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado have built a pair of devices that can ...
I’ve always enjoyed exploring new ways to track my activity. There’s nothing like strapping on a new wearable or loading up a new app before hitting the road. I’m all for this relatively new ...
GPS encodes this information into the navigation message and modulates it onto both the C/A and P(Y) ranging codes at 50 bit/s. The navigation message format described in this section is called LNAV data (for legacy navigation). The navigation message conveys information of three types: The GPS date and time, and the satellite's status.
The TTFF is commonly broken down into three more specific scenarios, as defined in the GPS equipment guide: Cold or factory The receiver is missing or has inaccurate estimates of its position, velocity, the time, or the visibility of any of the GPS satellites. As such, the receiver must systematically search for all possible satellites.