12.S56 GPS: Civilian Tool or Military Weapon?, Fall 2005

Herring, T. (Thomas)

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Herring, T. (Thomas)

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GPS: Civilian Tool or Military Weapon?

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Abstract

This is a freshman advising seminar. The professor of a FAS is the first year advisor to the (no more than 8) students in the seminar. The use of Global Positioning System (GPS) in a wide variety of applications has exploded in the last few years. In this seminar we will explore how GPS works, the range of applications, and the conflict between civilian users and military planners. This seminar is followed by a UROP research project in the spring semester where results from precise GPS measurements will be analyzed and displayed on the web.

Date issued

2005-12

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46360

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

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12.S56-Fall2005

local: 12.S56

local: IMSCP-MD5-b835f15e6c2155fa0a10cb71fc306d3c

Keywords

GPS, global positioning system, navigation, meteorology, geophysics, military

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