GPS and topography

The Global Positioning System or GPS is a global satellite navigation system that allows

you to determine the position of an object, a person, a vehicle or a ship all over the world.

We will apply this knowledge to identify possible relationships you may have with the

topography or the uses that this can give to this system of location since with this we can

reach an accuracy of up to centimeters, using differential GPS, but the usual is a few meters

depending on the case or who is using it.

The GPS works through a network of 27 satellites which are 24 operational and 3 backup in

orbit at 20,200 km on the globe, with synchronized trajectories to cover the entire surface

of the planet. When you want to determine a position, the receiver that is used for this, it

automatically locates at least three satellites in the network, from which it receives signals

indicating the position and clock of each of them. Based on these signals, the device

synchronizes the Positioning System clock and calculates the delay of the signals; that is,

the distance to the satellite. By "triangulation" the three satellites calculate the position in

which the GPS is located. The triangulation in the case of the Global Positioning System is

based on determining the distance of each satellite with respect to the measurement point.

Once the distances are known, the relative position relative to the three satellites is easily

determined. Knowing also the coordinates or position of each of them by the signal they

emit, the absolute position or real coordinates of the measurement point is obtained.

Extreme accuracy is also achieved in the GPS clock, similar to that of the atomic clocks

carried on each of the satellites.

The applications that can be given to a science cone topography are that necessarily the

topography is the representation of land and this needs to know the location of this, with a
GPS system would be very easy to find the exact location of this land regardless of where it

is accurate, in addition to GPS this terrain is evidenced digitally so the GPS does in other

measures what the topography since it shows the terrain on a screen and not on paper they

serve the same function but different shape.

The technology of the global positioning system is allowing great changes in society, the

applications that use GPS are growing constantly and are becoming more indispensable in

our daily lives because of the increase and the need for technology in our lives, not only

work, but also also personal.