Commercial Uses of GPS

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Commercial Uses of GPS

• Jason Y. KimOffice of Space CommercializationUni
  ted States Department of Commerce
• September 13, 2004

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United States GPS Policy of 1996

• Our goals are to
• Encourage private sector investment in and use
  of U.S. GPS technologies and services.

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Interagency GPS Executive Board
Defense
Transportation
State
Commerce
Agriculture
Interior
NASA
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Homeland Security
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Why Department of Commerce?

• Primary mission promote commercial market growth
  and trade
• Represents the largest GPS constituency
• Commercial industry
• Commercial end users
• National Geodetic Survey, National Weather
  Service, NOAA Corps, National Institute of
  Standards and Technology, Census Bureau
• Oversees CORS augmentation system
• Key role in federal radio spectrum management

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Worldwide GPS Hardware Sales Exceed 9 Billion
Per Year
(Projected)
Billions
Source DOC, 2001
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Commercial Applications Dominate the GPS Market
Data for Year 2000 Source DOC, 1998
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Sample Uses of GPS Technology

• Transportation
• Automotive
• Rail
• Maritime
• Aviation
• Space
• Industry
• Agriculture
• Construction
• E-Commerce/Finance
• Electric Power
• Engineering
• Fishing
• Forestry
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Oil Gas
• Telecommunications
• Geography

• Recreation
• Consumer Electronics
• Hiking/Geocaching
• Boating/Fishing
• Sports
• Tourism
• Science Environment
• Weather Forecasting
• Pollution Monitoring
• Ecology Wilderness Conservation
• Toxic Waste/Oil Spill Cleanup
• Animal Behavior
• Disease Control
• Geological Change Monitoring
• Archaeology
• Time Transfer
• Military
• Force Deployment
• Logistical Support

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Surveying/Mapping/GIS

• Sub-centimeter accuracy
• 100-300 savings in time, cost, labor
• Most major development projects require surveying
• Rural electrification
• Telecom tower placement
• Pipeline installation
• Dam construction
• Port dredging operations
• Oil, gas, and mineral exploration
• Flood plain mapping

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Tracking

• Package/cargo delivery
• Fleet and asset management
• 60,000-70,000 trucks in Brazil tracked by GPS
• Theft recovery
• Children, pets, elderly
• Public safety services

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Timing

• GPS offers an inexpensive alternative to costly,
  high maintenance timing equipment
• Telecommunications network synchronization
  management
• Phones, pagers, wireless systems
• LANs, WANs, Internet
• Financial transactions, e-commerce
• Electrical power grid management fault location

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Precision Agriculture

• Maximize use of resources
• Optimized plowing of crop rows
• Tailored applications of seeds, fertilizer,
  water, pesticides
• Improved management of land, machinery,
  personnel, time
• Greater crop yields
• Net benefit 5 to 14 per acre
• Minimize environmental impacts
• Localized identification and treatment of
  distressed crops reduces chemical use
• Precise leveling of fields prevents fluid runoff

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Construction/Mining

• Enhanced management of assets, equipment
• Progress tracked in real-time, remotely
• Improved machine control
• Saves time
• Saves fuel
• Reduces maintenance
• Prevents accidents
• Rapid surveying for drilling, machinery placement
• Smaller, more empowered workforce
• Pier in Northern Brazil constructed through fog
  and darkness with GPS

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Environmental Protection

• Forest protection
• Logging enforcement (e.g., Mato Grosso)
• Firefighting
• IBAMA 230 GPS units
• Fishing boundary enforcement
• Endangered species and habitat preservation
• Natural resource management
• Hazardous cleanup
• Oil spills, toxic waste
• Atmospheric modeling

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Recreation

• Portable receivers for outdoorsmen, hunters, etc.
• Wristwatches for runners
• Mobile phones (E-911), PDAs, etc.
• Sports facilities -- golf courses, ski resorts
• Geocaching

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Huge Potential Exists in the Market for Value
Added Services

• Software development
• Embedded applications
• Localized GIS databases
• Internet integration
• Wireless markets
• Location-Based Services

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The Market Is Wide Open

• Civil signals are freely available, right now
• More GPS signals coming soon
• Openly published documentation for all civil
  signals
• No licensing fees
• No export controls on commercial GPS goods
• Hardware is cheap, getting cheaper
• New applications are invented every day

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GPS Sales by Geographic Region
 1998 
Japan
U.S.
47
32
 2003 
(Projected)
U.S.
Japan
Europe
30
44
Asia
18
Other
2
1
Europe
Asia
Other
23
2
1
Source DOC, 1998
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Exporting U.S. GPS Goods to Brazil

• Controlled items requiring export licenses from
  U.S. Department of State
• Military receivers
• GPS receivers that operate at speeds above 1,000
  nautical miles per hour (1,852 km/hr) AND
  altitudes above 60,000 feet (18.3 km)
• Satellite components
• GPS goods requiring no U.S. export license
• Everything else!

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Commercial Interests Affect The Future of GPS

• GPS modernization
• Schedule, funding, user requirements
• New signal design properties (e.g., more power)
• Galileo cooperation
• Protecting interests, investments of GPS user
  base
• Ensuring level playing field for commerce
• Maximizing benefits of combined GPS-Galileo
  service
• Spectrum protection
• GPS information dissemination

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Point of Contact for Commercial Users and
Industry

• Jason Y. KimSenior Policy AnalystOffice of
  Space CommercializationU.S. Department of
  Commerce
• www.technology.gov/spacejason.kim_at_technology.gov
  1 [phone]