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Subject:   GPS INFORMATION SOURCES
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| (Revised 2 April 1994; revisions since previous update marked with bar '|')

  Prepared by

    Richard B. Langley
    Geodetic Research Laboratory
    Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
    University of New Brunswick
    Fredericton, N.B.
    Canada  E3B 5A3
    Phone: [phone]
    Fax:   [phone]
    Telex: 014-46202
    e-mail: [e-mail]

  Comments and additions to this document are welcome.


  1. OFFICIAL CIVILIAN INFORMATION SOURCE
  ---------------------------------------

  GPS INFORMATION CENTER
  o  Official U.S. Gov't. point of contact for civilian users
  o  Operated by U.S. Coast Guard
  o  Voice telephone recording for constellation status: [phone]
  o  Computer bulletin board: [phone] (up to 14,400
     bps) - almanacs, general information, etc.
     Available via the Internet through the FedWorld BBS gateway system.  Telnet
     to fedworld.gov and from the top menu, type DD54 to connect to the GPSIC
     BBS.  See file GPSIC.VIA.INTERNET.INFO in the CANSPACE file archives (see
     below) for more information.
  o  24 hour watchstand personnel: [phone]; fax: [phone]
  o  WWV / WWVH shortwave broadcasts - constellation status
  o  DMA and USCG notices and broadcasts


  2. ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICES
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  UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY
  o  Responsible for monitoring behaviour of satellite clocks
  o  Clock data and general information on GPS available
     from Automated Data Service (BBS): [phone],
     -0068, and -1079 (all bit rates); also available via the
     Internet (192.5.41.239; anonymous ftp permitted; for telnet
     connection, log in as ads -- a password is required -- GPS users may
     contact Francine Vannicola, [e-mail], for the password);
     files also available via automated e-mail -- contact Francine Vannicola
     for information
  o  USNO Series 4 mailed weekly bulletins contain satellite
     clock info

  INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE
  o  System maintained by IERS Central Bureau in Paris
  o  Earth orientation data from very long baseline interferometry,
     laser ranging, and GPS observations
  o  Sets of space geodesy station coordinates
  o  UTC leap second announcements
  o  Access via anonymous ftp: mesiom.obspm.circe.fr (130.84.200.6)

  2D SPACE OPERATIONS SQUADRON BBS
  o  Operated by U.S. Air Force 2d Space Operations Squadron, Falcon AFB, CO
  o  Service for GPS users from DoD, other U.S. GovUt. agencies, NATO, GovUt.
     contractors
  o  Almanacs, NANUs, Operational Advisories
  o  DSN 560-6379; [phone] (up to 2400 bps; N-8-1)

  USAF GPS BBS AT HOLLOMAN AFB, NM
  o  Operated by U.S. Air Force 6585th Test Group; formerly at Yuma
  o  Daily almanac, observed range errors, tracking data
  o  [phone] (variety of bit rates)

  U.S. ARMY ELECTRONIC PROVING GROUND EGRIS BBS
  o  Operated by U.S Army
| o  Accessible to military users and contractors worldwide
  o  NANUs, almanac and ephemeris data
| o  For authorization to access EGRIS, contact Jack Underwood at USAEPG at
|    [phone]
  o  [phone] (300 and 1200 bps); [phone] (9600 bps)

  UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SATELLITE GROUP ELECTRONIC BBS
  o  Operated by the University of Nottingham for the Royal Institution of
     Navigation
  o  Full access is only available to members of UKCSG
  o  [phone] (2400 bps)

  GPSINFO ELECTRONIC VIDEOTEX BBS
  o  Operated by the Survey Department of Rijkswaterstaat, (the Dutch
     Ministry of Transport and Public Works), Delft
  o  [phone] (1200 and 2400 bps)

  GPS INFO ELECTRONIC BBS
  o  Operated by Statens Kartverk (the Norwegian Mapping Authority),
     Honefoss.
  o  [phone] and -18369 (1200 and 2400 bps)

  GLOBAL SATELLITE SOFTWARE BBS
  o  Operated by Global Satellite Software, Inc., San Jose, California
  o  [phone] (300 / 1200 / 2400 bps)

  GIBS - GPS INFORMATIONS- UND BEOBACHTUNGSSYSTEM (INFORMATION AND OBSERVATION
                                                   SYSTEM)
  o  Operated by Institut fuer Angewandte Geodasie, Frankfurt/M, Germany
  o  [phone] and -418 (up to 19200 bps)
  o  Available via Internet: Telnet to no5.ifag.de (141.74.240.25)
  o  A GPS status report in German is available  at  [phone]. The
     report is updated at the beginning of each working day.
  o  Further information from [e-mail]

  GRINEL - PROFESSIONAL ELECTRONICS BBS
  o  Verwoerdburg, South Africa
  o  Operated by Grinel Professional Services on behalf of the Southern Africa
     GPS User Group
  o  Status advisories, almanac
  o  [phone] (300 to 2400 bps)
  o  According to a report from South Africa dated 4 October 1993, this BBS is
     no longer active

  KORT- OG MATRIKELSTYRELSEN BBS
  o  Kobenhavn, Denmark
  o  [phone] (up to 2400 bps)

  ASSOCIATED CONSULTING INC. BBS
  o  Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
  o  [phone] (300/1200/2400 bps)

  NATIONAL LAND SURVEY BBS
  o  Gavle, Sweden
  o  [phone] (up to 19200 bps)

  AUSLIG GEODESY ELECTRONIC BBS
  o  Operated by Australian Surveying and Land Information Group
  o  Constellation status, almanac data, related geodetic information
  o  [phone] or -4378 (300 to 600 bps)

  CANADIAN SPACE GEODESY FORUM
  o  A LISTSERV-based discussion and information electronic mailing list
  o  Address of list: [e-mail]
  o  Address for further information: [e-mail]
  o  File archive in "directory" PUB.CANSPACE on unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca
     (131.202.1.2) available by anonymous ftp
  o  File archive also available via Gopher;
     URL: gopher://unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca:1570/1EXEC%3aCANSPACE
  o  Latest DoD NANUs may be obtained by "fingering" [e-mail]

| INTERNATIONAL GPS SERVICE FOR GEODYNAMICS
| o  System maintained by IGS Central Bureau at JPL in Pasadena
| o  Information about access to tracking data from global tracking network
| o  Precise GPS satellite orbits generated by IGS Analysis Centers
| o  Information about IGS Tracking Stations, Data Centers, Analysis Centers
| o  GPS System Status Information
| o  Access via anonymous ftp: sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.70.41)

| CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY GPS/GLONASS GOPHER SERVER
| o  Operated by the Group of Signals and Systems, Department of
|    Radioelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical
|    University, Prague
| o  Host: gopher.feld.cvut.cz (147.32.192.5)
| o  Bilingual: Czech/English
| o  Data concerning Navstar GPS and GLONASS including the status of the
|    systems (number of working satellites and whether they are usable or not)
|    and almanac data for all satellites.
| o  All data are based on the monitoring of both systems at the Czech Technical
|    University
| o  Suggestions and comments should be forwarded to [e-mail] or
|    [e-mail]

| WORLD WIDE WEB
| Hal Mueller of the Dept. of Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University
| has put together a very good hypertext document containing pointers to a
| number of items on GPS along with ones on GIS, remote sensing, and various
| other geosciences that can be found on the Internet.  The uniform resource
| locator (URL) for the hypertext document is
|   http://ageninfo.tamu.edu/geoscience.html
| Simply enter the URL into Mosaic or another WWW browser to access the
| document.

  OTHER GPS MAILING LISTS
  o  GPS DIGEST
     Moderated by Andy Arkusinski and Ken Jongsma of Smiths Industries, Grand
     Rapids, MI.

     According to the moderators ...
     The GPS Digest is a forum for the discussion of topics related to the USAF
     Global Positioning System (GPS) and other satellite navigation positioning
     systems. The GPS Digest is moderated and is not presently available via
     USENET newsgroup. Submissions should be made to [e-mail].
     Administrative requests [including requests to be added to the mailing
     list] should be made to [e-mail].
     The digests are archived in the CANSPACE file archives.

  o  GPStech
     The GPStech Mailing List
|    Operated by Jeff Freymueller, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

|    GPStech is an unmoderated mailing list for the discussion of GPS technical
|    and other issues. The intention is to provide a forum for the exchange of
|    information, for discussion of the finer technical points that always seem
|    to trip us up, and for questions about particular GPS analysis software.

|    While the original intent of the list was to provide a forum for discussion
|    of topics involved in high-precision geodetic GPS (for surveying and
|    crustal deformation applications), topics involving GPS navigation are
|    welcomed as well.

|    Both question-and-answer and open debate/discussion are encouraged. New
|    members are encouraged to ask questions and suggest topics of discussion
|    (as are longtime members for that matter).

     Use the following mail addresses to access the GPStech list:

     [e-mail]          -- to post a message
     [e-mail]  -- to join or quit the list

  USENET
  Several USENET news groups have occasional postings related to GPS.  Among
  them are
  o  comp.infosystems.gis (gatewayed with the LISTSERV list
                           [e-mail])
  o  rec.aviation.misc
  o  rec.boats
| o  sci.electronics
  o  sci.space
  o  sci.space.news
| A new USENET news group, sci.geo.satellite-nav, has recently been established.


  3. PERIODICALS
  --------------

  GPS WORLD MAGAZINE
  o  Monthly magazine covering the spectrum of GPS usage
  o  Current regular subscription rates: US $59, Canada $79, Foreign $117
  o  Special subscription rates may be offered from time to time
  o  Free subscriptions may still be available for qualified individuals
  o  Advanstar Communications
     P.O. Box 10460
     Eugene, Oregon  97440-2460
     U.S.A.
     Phone: [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Telex: 510-597-0365

  GPS WORLD NEWSLETTER
  o  6-page newsletter published twice a month by Advanstar Communications
  o  For subscription information, contact GPS World at the address and phone
     numbers above

  GPS REPORT
  o  8-page newsletter containing news and analysis on commercial and military
     applications of GPS
  o  Also available electronically via NewsNet and Predicasts
  o  Phillips Business Information, Inc.
     7811 Montrose Road
     Potomac, MD  20854
     U.S.A.
     Phone: [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     Telex: 358149

   CSTG GPS SUBCOMMISSION'S GPS BULLETIN
  o  Bulletin of the GPS Subcommission under Commission VIII, Inter-
     national Coordination of Space Techniques for Geodesy and Geo-
     dynamics of the International Association of Geodesy and the
     International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
  o  Reports on GPS developments related to high accuracy uses of GPS
  o  Status of the Cooperative International GPS Network (CIGNET)
  o  GPS Bulletin is prepared and distributed by the National Geodetic
     Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
     Department of Commerce
  o  Editor: Miranda Chin
     NOAA, N/OES13
     1305 East-West Highway
     Silver Springs, MD  20910
     Phone: [phone]
     Fax:   [phone]
     e-mail: [e-mail]
  o  According to a report received on 9 November 1993, the GPS Bulletin is no
     longer being published.

   GNSS UPDATE
  o  Irregular publication of Transport Canada's Global Navigation Satellite
     System Working Group
  o  Editor: Deborah Martin
     Transport Canada
     Place de Ville, Tower "C"
     Ottawa, Ontario
     K1A 0N8
     Attention: AANDDB
     Fax: [phone]

   SATNAV NEWS
  o  Quarterly publication on developments at the Federal Aviation
     Administration's Satellite Program Office
  o  Available in electronic form from the CANSPACE file archives (see above)


  4. BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
  -----------------------

  Ackroyd, N. and R. Lorimer (1990).  Global Navigation, A GPS User's Guide.
  Lloyd's of London, 202 pp.

  ARINC Research Corporation (1991).  System Specifications for Navstar GPS
  Space Segment/Navigation Users Interface.  GPS Interface Control Document.
  ICD-GPS-200, 3 July, 115 pp.

| Dahl, Bonnie (1994?).  The Users Guide to GPS.  Richardsons' Marine
| Publishing, Chicago, IL.

| Geodetic Survey Division, Natural Resources Canada (1993).  GPS Positioning
| Guide.  Natural Resources Canada, 615 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0E9

  Hofmann-Wellenhof, B., H. Lichtenegger, and J. Collins (1992).  Global
  Positioning System, Theory and Practice.  Springer-Verlag, 326 pp.

  Institute of Navigation, The (1980).  Global Positioning System. Vol. I.
  Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation.  The Institute of
  Navigation (U.S.), 246 pp.

  Institute of Navigation, The (1984).  Global Positioning System.  Vol. II.
  Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation.  The Institute of
  Navigation (U.S.), 257 pp.

  Institute of Navigation, The (1986).  Global Positioning System.  Vol. III.
  Collected reprints of papers published in Navigation.  The Institute of
  Navigation (U.S.), 293 pp.

  King, R.W., E.G. Masters, C. Rizos, A. Stolz, and J. Collins (1985).
  Surveying with GPS.  Monograph 9.  School of Surveying, The University of New
  South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia.

  Leick, A. (1990).  GPS Satellite Surveying.  John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New
  York, Toronto, 352 pp.

  Logsdon, T. (1992).  Navstar Global Positioning System.  Van Nostrand
  Reinhold, New York, 249 pp.

  McElroy, S., E. Masters, G. Jones, D. Kinlyside, C. Rizos, A. Sivertsen, P.
  Brown, O. Moss, and G. Dickson (1992).  Getting Started with GPS Surveying.
  The Global Positioning Consortium (GPSCO), c/o School of Surveying, The
  University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia, 186 pp.

  Puterski, R., J.A. Carter, M.J. Hewitt, H.F. Stone, L.T. Fisher, and E.T.
  Slonecker. (1992).  GIS Technical Memorandum 3: Global Positioning Systems
  Technology and its Application in Environmental Programs.  EPA/600/R-92/036.
  Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory, Office of Research and
  Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, P.O. Box 93478, Las Vegas,
  NV  89193-3478, 68 pp.

| Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services Special Committee 104 (1994).
| RTCM Recommended Standards for Differential Navstar GPS Service, Version 2.1
| (RTCM Paper 194-93/SC104-STD).  RTCM, P.O. Box 19087, Washington, D.C.  20036.

  Seeber, G. (1993).  Satellite Geodesy: Foundations, Methods, and Applications.
  Revised translation of Satellitengeodasie.  Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin,
  531 pp.

  Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1989).  GPS: A Guide to the Next Utility.  Trimble
  Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, California., 76 pp.

  Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1992).  GPS Surveyor's Field Guide -- A Field
  Guidebook for Static Surveying.  Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale,
  California.

  Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1992).  GPS Surveyor's Field Guide -- A Field
  Guidebook for Dynamic Surveying.  Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale,
  California, 72 pp.

  Trimble Navigation, Ltd. (1993).  Differential GPS Explained -- An expose of
  the surprisingly simple principles behind today's most advanced positioning
  technology.  Trimble Navigation Ltd., Sunnyvale, California, 55 pp.

| United States Army Corps of Engineers (1991).  NAVSTAR Global Positioning
| System Surveying.  Engineer Manual No. 1110-1-1003.  Department of the Army,
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.  20314-1000.

  Wells, D.E., N. Beck, D. Delikaraoglou,  A. Kleusberg, E.J. Krakiwsky,  G.
  Lachapelle,  R.B. Langley, M. Nakiboglu, K.P. Schwarz, J.M. Tranquilla,  and
  P. Vanicek (1987).  Guide to GPS Positioning.  2nd printing with corrections.
  Canadian GPS Associates, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 600 pp.


  Many of these books are available from

       Navtech Book and Software Store (a division of Navtech Seminars, Inc.)
       2775 S. Quincy St.
       #610
       Arlington, VA  22206-2204
       U.S.A.
       Phone: [phone]
              [phone]
       Fax:   [phone]


  5. PAPERS AND ARTICLES
  ----------------------

  A series of six articles on GPS receivers (primarily the transputer-based
  receivers developed by Inmos) by Philip Mattos, a consulting engineer with
  Inmos/SGS-Thomson, was published by Electronics World + Wireless World between
  December 1992 and May 1993.  In addition to receiver details, the articles
  also cover the theory of operation of GPS, GPS antennas, and various GPS
  applications.  Note that the constructional kit and newsletter mentioned in
  the sixth article are not available and that there are some minor errors here
  and there scattered through the articles.

  Mattos, P. (1992). GPS.  Electronics World & Wireless World, No. 1681, pp.
  982-987.

  Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 2: Receiver Architecture.  Electronics World &
  Wireless World, No. 1682, pp. 29-32.

  Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 3: The GPS Message On The Hardware Platform.
  Electronics World & Wireless World, No. 1683, pp. 146-151.

  Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 4: Radio Architecture.  Electronics World & Wireless
  World, No. 1684, pp. 210-216.

  Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 5: The Software Engine.  Electronics World & Wireless
  World, No. 1685, pp. 296-&.

  Mattos, P. (1993). GPS 6: Applications.  Electronics World & Wireless World,
  No. 1686, pp. 384-389.


  6. GPS BIBLIOGRAPHY
  -------------------

  A GPS Bibliographic Subscription Service is offered by Canadian GPS
  Associates, publishers of the Guide to GPS Positioning.  This service provides
  twice-yearly updated editions, listing GPS-related publications from journals,
  newsletters, reports, and proceedings of GPS-related conferences.

  The Premier Edition, issued in late 1992, contained 4,358 entries.  This grew
  from a 1,000-entry bibliography prepared in 1989 at the University of New
  Brunswick for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Dredging Research Program
  Technical Report DRP-92-2, available in electronic form as message #5296 on
  the U.S. Coast Guard's GPS Information Center Bulletin Board).  At 8,802
  entries, the July 1993 Edition has doubled in size.

  The GPS Bibliography is available in both hard-copy and computer-readable form
  on PC or Macintosh diskettes.  The PC diskette version is available in either
  the standard CSV (comma-separated-variables) text format, or dBase III format.
  For Macintosh users, the format is tab-separated field text format.

  For further information, contact

    Canadian GPS Associates
    P.O. Box 3184
    Postal Station B
    Fredericton, New Brunswick
    Canada  E3A 5G9
    Phone: [phone]
    Fax:   [phone]
    e-mail: [e-mail]


  7. GPS RECEIVER SURVEYS
  -----------------------

| Fishing & Powerboat Electronics Buyers Guide.  Includes test reports, quality
| ratings, and best buy selections of GPS receivers (and other electronic
| boating equipment).  Annual publication.  Available at news-stands.  Published
| by Skipper Marine Electronics, Inc., 3170 Commercial Avenue, Northbrook, IL
| 60062; [phone], [phone].

  GPS Receiver Survey.  Published by Navtech Seminars, Inc. (see above for
  address).  Updated frequently.

  GPS World Receiver Survey.  Published annually in the January issue of GPS
  World magazine.

  Guide to GPS Receivers.  Published irregularly by Colwell-Kirtland
  International, 675 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA  94086; [phone].

  Who's Who in GPS Equipment -- A Technical Reference.  Published by Phillips
  Business Information, Inc., publishers of GPS Report (see above for address).
  Annual publication.

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 Richard B. Langley                         Internet: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
 Geodetic Research Laboratory               BITnet:   LANG@UNB or SE@UNB
 Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone:    [phone]
 University of New Brunswick                FAX:      [phone]
 Fredericton, N.B., Canada  E3B 5A3         Telex:    014-46202
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