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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in Earthquake Engineering, Usage of

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Displacement monitoring; GPS (Global Positioning System)

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GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is a satellite-based navigation system. Since it provides accurate position and precise time, the GNSS receiver is employed as a time synchronization device and/or a displacement monitoring sensor in earthquake engineering.

The United States’ GPS (Global Positioning System) is one of the operational GNSSs. The constellation of GPS satellites consists of 24 + α operational satellites which are deployed in six orbital planes. At least four satellites are arranged in a plane, and several spare satellites are also operated for malfunction. With this constellation, four to eight satellites will be always visible with the elevation mask of 15°. The positioning accuracy reaches to a few meters with point positioning, a few centimeters with kinematic positioning, and a few millimeters with static positioning. Since GPS was at first organized for military purpose, GPS was not...

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku, 162-0825, Japan

    Masayuki Saeki

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Saeki, M. (2015). Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in Earthquake Engineering, Usage of. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_57

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