From mujibur.inmind.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.gmi.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!dweller Thu Sep 7 13:38:41 1995 Path: mujibur.inmind.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.gmi.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!dweller From: Ron Dwelle Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Coast Guard Web Site Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:55:16 -0400 Organization: Grand Vally State University Lines: 6 Message-ID: References: <42h1hj$9qs@diplomatic.passport.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <42h1hj$9qs@diplomatic.passport.ca> This may be old news to you all, but I just ran across the Coast Guard's WWW web-site, with lots of loran/GPS info available: www.navcen.uscg.mil cheers, From mujibur.inmind.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!nntpgate.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!usenet Fri Sep 8 09:29:46 1995 Path: mujibur.inmind.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!nntpgate.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!usenet From: Gill Couto Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav Subject: Re: Other uses of GPS Date: 7 Sep 1995 23:10:09 GMT Organization: Writing at, not for, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <42nu4h$40v@news.asu.edu> References: <42e1f3$lbv@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2-16.inre.asu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b4 (Windows; I; 16bit) dean@phobos.cira.colostate.edu wrote: > > GPS is mostly used for navigation, but are there other uses of GPS? Someone > mentioned that GPS sat network is being used to determine amount of water > vapor in the atmosphere. Is there a WWW site that may provide additional > information about other uses of GPS? > > Kelly Dean > CSU/CIRA There's an interesting application of GPS being used to measure tectonic plate movements down to the millimeter range. Check these sites: http://sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov/mbh/series.html http://scec.gps.caltech.edu http://minotaur.ess.ucla.edu/uclagps.html Gill Couto Tempe, AZ http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~couto