Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
Applications
Dinesh Manandhar
Center for Spatial Information Science
The University of Tokyo
Contact Information: dinesh@[Link]
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GNSS Applications - 1
• Surveying, Mapping and Geodesy
• Transportation
• Car Navigation, ITS, ADAS, V2X
• Railway Network
• Marine : AIS, VMS
• Aviation : GBAS
• UAV
• Legal and Law Enforcement
• Fishing Zone, Crime Prevention
• Taxation / Insurance
• Taxation based on location or distance traveled
• Vehicle Accidents / Emergency Services
• eCall/ ERA-GLONASS / E-911
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GNSS Applications - 2
• Agriculture
– Precise farming, Auto-Driving of Tractors
• Personal Navigation
• Location Based Applications
– Services, Entertainment, Advertisement, Gaming, Marketing
• Warning during Disasters
• Geo-Fencing / Geo-Securities
• Robotics
• Navigation, Actions based on Location
• Scientific Applications
• Space Weather : Scintillation, Radio Occultation, Plasma Bubble
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• Telecommunication
• Synchronize cell towers, microsecond order for CDMA
• Network Time Protocol , millisecond order
• Power Grid
• Phase Synchronization between grids is required for higher efficiency and avoid power
failures
• Time Stamping of
• Financial and Banking Transactions
• Legal, Clerical, Shipping Documents
• Scientific Timing Applications
• Time stamping of events
• e. g. Global VLBI Observation, earthquake occurrences, arrival of neutrino in particle physics
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