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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 13:07:59 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPS heads up
Message-ID:  <20000503130759.A15403@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200005031957.NAA01354@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0600
References:  <200005031744.KAA63550@apollo.backplane.com> <20000503200006.A35116@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005031957.NAA01354@nomad.yogotech.com>

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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:57:08PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> My former employer (SRI) has done lots of research, and have gotten a
> receiver good to 1cm, but it takes about 24 hours for it to
> 'synchronize' to that accuracy.  With dual receivers, you can get 2-3 mm
> accuracy by comparing the wavelength offsets, but it's really, really,
> really expensive to build the hardware, and there's very little
> practical use for that kind of accuracy.

Actually, there's a physics professor any my old college does use that
feature.  He mounts them on buildings around SoCal with dataloggers to
determine building movement due to earthquakes and general plate
movement.

-- Brooks

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