GPS Questions

GPS provides __________?

• Positioning, navigation, and timing services

• Accurate sub terrain tunnel boring

• Deepwater submarine navigation

• All of the above

EGNOS is a __________ operated by the European Union?

• Regional ground-based augmentation system

• Global ground-based augmentation system

• Regional space-based augmentation system

• Global space-based augmentation system

Lines of longitude __________.

• Run in an east/west direction

• Measure distance east or west of the prime meridian

• Are equal distances apart

• Are known as parallels

The three segments that make up the U.S. GPS are __________.

• Differential, static, and dynamic

• Omega, LORAN, and Landmark

• Space, Control, and User

• Stratospheric, Tropospheric, and Ionospheric

True or False: A branch of the military known as “Space Force” is an actual branch of the U.S. armed services and currently oversees the GPS satellite orbits?

• True

• False

In the basic formula D = r*t utilized by GPS receivers to determine positions on the earth, the t refers to the ________________.

• Time it takes to complete satelites oribit around the earth

• Speed of receiver

• Speed of satellite signal

• Difference between the time the signal was broadcast from the satellite and the tiem the signal is received by the GPS unit.

A/An ______________ coordinate system models a large region of the Earth as a plane.

• Geographic

• Geocentric

• Projected

• Engineering

GPS receivers obtain a ______________ signal from the satellite.

• One-way

• Two-way

• Bi-lateral

• Tri-lateral

GPS technology is incorporated into which of the following?

• Wrist watches

• Shipping containers

• ATMs

• All of the above