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The Global Positioning System A Shared National Asset (1995) / Chapter Skim
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... now affiliated with the Dutch Fugro Group, provides DGPS services to North America and much of the rest of the world with a system known as Starfish ll.62 Stamp IT systems operate throughout the world by sending differential corrections from each of the reference sites to a central network control center using leased telephone lines, communications satellites, or both. Differential corrections are broadcast to users via UBand and C-Band geostationary communications satellites and are received by user equipment that consists of a small (3.8 cm high, 7.6 cm diameter)
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