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An Analysis of the Security of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Proposed Solutions
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The Global Position System (GPS) does ensure that we get different services, including weather, time, and location. The global position System is widely used as it provides services to consumer applications and the commercial military. As GPS users, we are privileged to understand and know our current location, precise time, and velocity. The global position system has proved more effective and practical than traditional positionings such as radio-based devices, clocks, and magnetic compasses. In the world, it is estimated that the Global position system does comprise 24 satellites in total.
We have three satellites used as spares, ensuring 21 satellites are active in practice. The three reserves are about ten thousand six miles above the earth's surface. Ground-based GPS receivers are equipped with computers that can triangulate their sense after receiving bearings from the other
three of the four GPS satellites on the same horizon. Space, control, and user segments are the categories under which GPS segments are divided.
The global position has specific functions that it provides to users worldwide. The GPS provides a collection of purposes at sea, on land, and even in the air. The GPS's different characteristics that make it effective and efficient include ensuring a supply of high positioning accuracies. Secondly, GPS allows users to determine accurate velocity and time at any moment of need (Lombardi, 2021).
GPS has been signaled in all parts of the world, ensuring that all users can easily connect and have adequate services. Moreover, the services offered are free of charge, and to make it resourceful enough, they are of all-weather service providence. However, we have some challenges in that
users need help to work with GPS despite its many advantages. Most of the difficulties include errors, for instance, inaccuracies related to the conveyed location of satellites. We refer to the errors as orbital errors. Other mistakes have signal multipath, quite a percentage of visible satellites, and receiver clock errors. -
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- 2023-04-01
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