UTAH'S DIXIE HISTORICAL SITES SONS OF THE UTAH PIONEER - COTTON MISSION CHAPTER GPS DATA AND INFORMATION

 

GPS is a Satellite Navigation System GPS is funded by and controlled by the U. S. Department of Defense (DOD). While there are many thousands of civil users of GPS world-wide, the system was designed for and is operated by the U. S. military. GPS provides specially coded satellite signals that can be processed in a GPS receiver, enabling the receiver to compute position, velocity and time. Four GPS satellite signals are used to compute positions in three dimensions and the time offset in the receiver clock. For more information, see: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps_f.html What is Geocaching? Basically, geocaching is a high-tech version of hide-and-seek. Geocachers seek out hidden treasures utilizing GPS coordinates posted on the Internet by those hiding the cache. Using a  GPS unit, they then trek out into the backwoods or urban jungles to find the hiding spot of the cache. Once discovered, geocachers follow a simple set of rules: Fill out the logbook, take something out, put something back in, and return the cache to the exact position and condition in which it was found. It can be as simple as walking to an open area at a local park or as difficult as searching for multiple locations to find the final prize. Some caches have even been planted on mountainsides or underwater! And it's growing and evolving as a new gaming activity every day.

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