Instrument: Global Positioning System Receiver

Dataset: 
MIDAS underway data
Instrument: 
Global Positioning System Receiver
Instrument Short Name: GPS
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/POS03/)
Instrument Description:

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S. space-based radionavigation system that provides reliable positioning, navigation, and timing services to civilian users on a continuous worldwide basis. The U.S. Air Force develops, maintains, and operates the space and control segments of the NAVSTAR GPS transmitter system. Ships use a variety of receivers (e.g. Trimble and Ashtech) to interpret the GPS signal and determine accurate latitude and longitude.

PI supplied instrument name: Global Positioning System Receiver
Dataset-specific description

Starlink differential GPS or a Trimble GPS with a Micronet Receiver Station. The Micronet Receiver Station is a land based differential system privately maintained (provided for LUMCON's use by Doug Chocrane Technologies, Lafayette, Louisiana) with sub 5-meter accuracy and available out to 300 miles in the Gulf of Mexico.