Uses of GPS

Many civilian applications use one or more of GPS's three basic components: absolute location,
relative movement, and time transfer. GPS is used for the following civilian purposes:
 GPS/Cellular position detection for emergency mobile calls to 911.
 Vehicle tracking systems, person tracking systems, and pet tracking systems use GPS to locate
a vehicle, person, or pet. These devices are attached to the vehicle, person, or to the
target leave a designated area.
 GPS is used for geotagging ie, applying location coordinates to digital objects such as photographs
and other documents for creating map overlays.
 GPS is used for Aircraft Tracking.
 GPS tours: Location determines what content to display; for instance, information about
an approaching point of interest.
 Map-making: Both civilian and military cartographers use GPS extensively.
 Navigation: Navigators value digitally precise velocity and orientation measurements.
 Robotics: Self-navigating, autonomous robots using a GPS sensors, which calculate latitude,
longitude, time, speed, and heading.
 Recreation: For example, geocaching, geodashing, GPS drawing and waymarking.
 Surveying: Surveyors use absolute locations to make maps and determine property boundaries.
 Tectonics: GPS enables direct fault motion measurement in earthquakes.
 Telematics: GPS technology integrated with computers and mobile communications technology
in automotive navigation systems
 Fleet Tracking: The use of GPS technology to identify, locate and maintain contact reports
with one or more fleet vehicles in real-time.

GPS is used for the following military purposes.
 Navigation: GPS allows soldiers to find objectives, even in the dark or in unfamiliar
territory, and to coordinate troop and supply movement.
 Target tracking: Various military weapons systems use GPS to track potential ground and
air targets before flagging them as hostile.
 Missile and projectile guidance: GPS allows accurate targeting of various military weapons
including ICBMs, cruise missiles, precision-guided munitions and Artillery projectiles.
 Search and Rescue: Downed pilots can be located faster if their position is known.
 Reconnaissance: Patrol movement can be managed more closely.