Global Positioning System Disaster Notification Messaging Service

Abstract

The United States has offered free worldwide position, navigation, and timing (PNT) broadcast data through the Global Positioning System (GPS) since its 1993 initial operations capable declaration, and periodic modernization efforts have been made throughout its 20-year history. A planned modernized L5 safety of life GPS signal, combined with the current GPS-enabled device ubiquity, offers an unprecedented opportunity to embed and broadcast other non-PNT information into GPS signals and reach individuals on a global scale with information in new ways. Adequate additional bandwidth exists in the new L5 safety of life signal to embed notification information for worldwide natural and technological disasters and add a new communication medium for a possible global disaster notification system. This thesis explores the background, requirements, system design and U.S. policy of a disaster-notification enabled GPS L5 safety of life signal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA590065

Entities

People

  • Alan C. Burwell

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Mobile Phones
  • Multiple Access
  • National Security
  • Natural Disasters
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Smartphones
  • Text Messaging
  • Warning Systems
  • World Geodetic System

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space