GNSS Quiz

Answer the following questions about GNSS and surveying.
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What is a group of GNSS satellites called?
Constellation
What is the method for determining a location from 3 satellites?
Trilateration
What is the purpose of the fourth GNSS satellite?
Time correction
What company developed the first RTK technology for real time GNSS corrections in the early 1990s?
Trimble
Ronald Reagan made the US GNSS system available for civilian use after a plane was shot down after navigation issues from which airline?
Korean Air
What type of error is caused by signals reflecting off buildings or water?
Multipath
What is the process of establishing a relationship between global coordinate data and local/project coordinates? Site _______
Calibration
What are the names of the points which the exact location is known in both global and local coordinate systems?
Control points
In the surveying point format P,N,E,Z,D, what does the Z represent?
Elevation
How many arc seconds are in 1 degree?
3600
What does GNSS stand for?
G
Global
N
Navigation
S
Satellite
S
System
 
 
What is the GNSS system for each region?
United States
GPS
European Union
GALILEO
Russia
GLONASS
China
BEIDOU
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