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Applications for GPS

Typical navigation in a marine environment, accuracy about 10-15 metres.

Innovation using latest communications.

Using a simple GPS unit to manage petrol station locations.

Civilian accuracy, 15 metres or less (without accounting for selective availability, which was cancelled by the US Government on 1May 2000).

Articles written by Kimball Thurlow, Copyright, Johnny Appleseed GPS, Brisbane.
Volunteer Marine Rescue in Southport, Queensland

Here are some more images of the VMR in Southport. Many workaday tasks keep the volunteer membership busy. Members contribute their time on a roster basis. The operation is manned 24/7, and includes monitoring of marine radio traffic in the area, and logging exits and entries theough the sea-way leading from the Broadwater to the Pacific Ocean.

Steve and assistant returning to base after a routine operation.

Kris attends to one of the more mundane tasks handled daily at the VMR.

Primary safety using an EPIRB.

What is GPS? (Explaining the system of satellites and how it works)
The theory of positioning (How Sir Isaac Newton and others made GPS possible)

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