GPS details

GPS is a high-precision navigation system that uses signals from four or more GPS
satellites to determine a location on the Earth's surface using navigation equations, and
which allows us to determine our position with coordinates of Latitude, Longitude and
Height, this satellite navigation system is used for various business and personal
applications, Knowledge of its use is limited to searching for streets and points of
interest in order to be able to reach them easily, for all people who work with companies
or on different campuses, such as topography and agronomy, among others. , since with
this great technology such as GPS it has allowed them to know and control the real time
in the different variables that are present on a journey or in the work they are doing, as
we already know from a point the precision of the GPS varies from 100 meters to
millimeter precision that means that the values vary, but taking into account that in
order to give us a correct position we would need three satellites to be able to perform a
triangulation of signals and know more accurately the position as we already know each
satellite indicates that the receiver is at a point on the surface of the sphere, which is the
one that Obtains the information from at least two more satellites, and a circumference
is determined that results when they intersect the spheres at some point of which the
receiver is located. To be able to carry out topographic work, you must know the
altitude and the GPS offers us that strategy, but knowing the previous points that three
satellites are needed to be able to have a correct position, with the altitude it is the same
thing, you would need one more satellite, in total they would be four for a three-
dimensional navigation that includes the altitude. The GPS works through a network of
satellites that are orbiting around the earth. When you want to determine the position,
the device used for this automatically locates at least four satellites in the network, from
which it receives signals indicating the position and clock of each one of them. These
carriers are emitted in the L band; the L band of the spectrum has the best atmospheric
transparency, which is very important for the precision of the system. There are two
carrier frequencies called LI and L2. This means that they are signals radiated by each
satellite in the GPS constellation. The use of two different frequencies is due to the fact
that the atmosphere provides a certain delay in the propagation of the waves, this delay
being a function of the frequency.