[OKGIS] Navy ship unintionally blocks GPS signal in San Diego.

[Robert Stokes]

I would think that 95% of Oklahomans would be more concerned about why the (active)warship was in the river than GPS projects...:)
 
As much of an inconvenience this would be, I am thankful every day that our great military has the ability to perform this type of activity!
 
We must remember...the constellation is theirs! And it could be argued that the breadth of exposure of our discipline is a direct effect of the DOD lifting of Selective Availability, which we would most likely still be hindered by, had they not developed these capabilities!
 
Robert Stokes
GIS Administrator
Cherokee Nation GeoData Center
(W) 918-453-5625
(C) 918-207-2798
 
robert-stokes at cherokee.org
 

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From: okgis-bounces at gis.gis.ou.edu on behalf of David W. Wheelock
Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 8:22 AM
To: Oklahoma GIS Community
Subject: [OKGIS] Navy ship unintionally blocks GPS signal in San Diego.



Here's a very interesting account of a Navy ship on a radio jamming exercise inadvertantly jamming GPS signals in the San Diego, CA area.  What would happen if your mission critical operations depended on GPS alone and this happened in your area?

David Wheelock     Application Specialist     david at oda.state.ok.us 

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
2800 North Lincoln Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4298
Phone: (405) 522-5477 FAX: (405) 522-3590
http://www.oda.state.ok.us <http://www.oda.state.ok.us/>  

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than by those which have occurred to others." 
Pascal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal>  

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Click here to read article: 
http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=418420#H2 <http://mg.gpsworld.com/gpsmg/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=418420#H2>  
JNC Briefing on Jamming Incident 

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