GPS APPLICATIONS

GPS APPLICATIONS

•AGRICULTURE
•MILITARY
•MARITIME
•AUTOMOTIVE
•SURVEYING
•AVIATION
•FORESTRY
•ENVIRONMENTAL
•PUBLIC SAFETY
•Mapping Software
•HIKING
•HUNTING
•NATURE STUDY
•FISHING
•BOATING
•BIKING
•SKIING
•SNOWMOBILING
•GEOCACHING
•GOLF ! ETC.
•GIS

Military Uses

•PLGR GPS ReceiverThe Manpack was replaced in 1993 by the hand-held Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver (PLGR), popularly known as the "Plugger." These units are similar to civilian receivers, but they can use higher-precision GPS signals.
•Image courtesy Rockwell Collins.

Transportation Related Business

This technology tracks where your vehicles are on a detailed map, where they have been, where they are going, what speed they are traveling, as well as ignition on/off. In the right hands, this data can become very useful information when managingyour business.

GPS Navigation in the Air

Pilots Use of GPS

Pilots on long distance flights without GPS rely on navigational beacons located across the country. Using GPS, aircraft can fly the most direct routes between airports. Pilots often rely on GPS to navigate to their destinations. A GPS receiver in the cockpit provides the pilot with accurate position data and helps him or her keep the airplane on course.

Mapping the Earth with GPS

•Surveyors and map makers use GPS for precision positioning. GPS is often used to map the location of such facilities as telephone poles, sewer lines, and fire hydrants. Surveyors use GPS to map construction sites and property lines. Forestry, mineral exploration, and wildlife habitat management all use GPS to precisely define positions of important assets and to identify changes. 

GPS Used to Study Nature

The sensor array, which exploits global positioning system (GPS) satellites to detect minute ground movements.

Marine Navigation

•GPS provides reliable, accurate and consistent navigation data that has significantly increased marine safety. Systems that combine GPS and wireless communications deliver precise position information over wireless satellite links for emergency reports, navigation and tracking.

•The Coast Guard uses DGPS systems to place and maintain buoys, lights, and day markers that direct traffic in harbours, and on coastlines, rivers and lakes. Sailors rely on GPS to enhance competitiveness, set courses and track performance. In competitive racing for example, DGPS systems are used aboard competitors and committee boats, and provide precision placement for race course marks.

GPS For Hunters

GPS navigationcan be the difference between successful hunting and wandering aimlessly around in the woods. Mark the location of your deer blind, or find your way back to that great duck-hunting spot.

GPS as a planning and analysis toolUse your GPS with topographical maps to make your scouting time more efficient. If you look on a map and notice possible deer funnel areas where ridges come together or a creek or river abuts a bluff you can mark the latitude and longitude as a waypoint and so you can find the spot quickly. Build a database with a GPS receiver by making a waypoint for each, and naming them with a code you can understand

SafetyGPS is useful too because it allows you to safely and easily navigate your way back even if you get caught in bad weather and visibility is compromised.

Easily navigate back to base camp if you get separated from the rest of the group.

If you get in serious trouble, you can use a GPS unit to communicate your exact position to rescue teams.

Forestry & GPS/GIS

As a forester, Sawchuck finds that GPS and GIS technologies enable him to more rapidly collect and geocode data and then present it in numerous formats ranging from text-based tables to detailed color maps. But the most valuable asset that the GPS/GIS combination brings to this forester’s job is its analytical power. "A lot of people view GIS as a great mapmaking tool," Sawchuck notes. "It does that really well, but the real power behind GIS is the ability to do analysis of your information."

Public Safety

Satellite navigation is fast becoming an industry standard for location information used by emergency and other specialty fleets. Location and status information provided to public safety systems offers managers a quantum leap forward in efficient operation of their emergency response teams. The ability to effectively identify and view the location of police, fire, rescue, and individual vehicles or boats means a whole new way of doing business.

Hiking

•Download Hiking & Biking waypoints to use while traveling. Mark points of interest as you go or mark prior to trip by finding on the web.

Biking

•Download Hiking & Biking waypoints to use while traveling. Mark points of interest as you go or mark prior to trip by finding on the web.

Snowmobiling

Using Easy GPS to create or copy routes already created and available on the web!

Skiing and GPS

•Download free GPS Map with waypoints of popular ski locations.

•Some adventurers have even created geocache where skis are needed

Using GPS with Golf

In Hands Off mode the GolfPS™Personal GPS System provides instant and continuously updated distance to the green.In addition, the GolfPS™Personal GPS Golf System provides distances to any feature on the course, such as bunkers, water hazards and pin placements.With each shot, you receive accurate and consistent yardage for your favorite courses.

GPS for Fishing

GPS technology make your fishing expeditions much more rewarding. More accurate than "line of sight" or other navigation methods, a GPS unit tells you where you are and where you're going to within a few meters. Once considered a luxury, GPS is now an essential item in the fisher's arsenal.

A GPS is very handy and a good depth finder is useful too. Finding these places still requires some traveling time but good preplanning with a map and GPS means less wasted time. It is especially useful if you fish huge backcountry and featureless waterways.

Combine the benefits of mapping with GPS by getting digital charts or scan in paper maps with GPS mapping software and then enter way points along your planed route.

A GPS unit can mark these fishing hot spots so that you can find it again easily.

Canoeing, Kayaking & Boating

GPS provides mariners with navigational and positioning accuracy up to within 3 meters. There is no easier or safer way to navigate on the open waters.

Canoeing & Kayaking

Record your journey by saving points of particular interest and beauty or patches of soft shore where you can easily return on future trips. Marking hazardous areas to avoid when canoeing or kayaking at a rapid pace can be boat-saver and lifesaver.

Environmental Issues & GPS/GIS

The use of GPS is becoming common amongst farmers & custom applicators. It is being used for development of combine yields, control of variable rate application of fertilizers or herbicides and helping the guidance of equipment during field use.