Abstract:
During the last decades, global navigational satellite systems have received great attention and discussions on the international agenda. GPS receivers and technology is embedded in almost all smart phones. There are multi-billion dollar investments, studies and researches concerned with GNSS and their applications that are conducted world widely. These studies cover a wide range of fields and themes ranging from navigation, agriculture to outer space studies.
Sudan, as one of the biggest countries in terms of size and resources, would benefit tremendously from such technology. The vast and various land escapes, the minerals and the agricultural potentials will only be fully utilized if and only if technology is best used.
The research is one of the first steps that aim at bringing attention to the importance of GNSS and its applications to Sudan.
The study aimed at defining and locating possible locations for differential global navigational satellite systems, a new technique used to enhance the accuracy of the services provided by GNSS systems from around 5 meters to approximately less than one meter, all over Sudan. These locations’ coordinates will be calculated and precisely be determined. These locations are suggested sites for a number of reference (base) stations for the GNSS.
The aims of the study were not fully met. The determination of these points requires the use of hardware which was not available. The project scope had to be reduced from the whole Sudan to only one state. Eventually, a couple of sets of suggested locations were determined with their exact locations in a form of XY coordinates. Each one of these sets had its own radius and distances between points (reference stations).
Implementing this project will allow the use of technology in many fields such as mining, agriculture and navigation. This would increase productivity and efficiency in the peoples’ lives and that’s what technology is all about.
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