The U.S. Deaprtment Of Defense has placed a series of 24 Global Postioning System (GPS) satellites in orbit around the earth. These GPS satellites broadcaste signals that contain the time and identifer codes. GPS recievers use an antenna to acquire these signals from muttiple satellites to determine a person's postion, altitude, speed and direction of travel.
These satellites are now being used by the public and can be used as online map plotting tracking in your vehicle as well are used as mobel vehicle locators in surveillance work. With the propber software and plotting on digital mapping programs, users have an easy way to:
Track Your Own Location
See where you have been and where you are going quicly and easily
Keep a digital map record. Never get lost again. Great for busy private
investigators
on the go.
GPS technology is now being used in conjunction with Street
Atlas USA 4.0 and a new product called Tripmate
which gives someone with a laptop computer the ability to see where they
have been and where they are going which is plotted on a map.This has tremdious
use for the practicing private investigator. First, you'll never get lost
again. Secondly, you can plot not only where you are at now, you can keep
track of where you have been and likely possabilities of where you are going
to end up simply by glancing at the desktop map. Hold on to your seats,
because their is even more! Not only can you do everything mentioned above,
you can also use Phone Search USA in conjunction
with Tripmate and Street Atlas
which is a national digital telephone book and develop the name, address
and telephone number of every building and house you see along the way.
We still aren't done! Another product that goes along with all this stuff
is called 3D Explorer.
Instead of just obtaining flat maps of anywhere in the USA, 3D
Explorer gives you a 3D bird's eye view of the complete country in which
you can come down low for closeups and or up to about 10,000 feet.
Link To Internet: When you purchase Tripmat, you also obtain a WWW address
you can use to get the latest road, traffic and weather conditions quickly
and easily for any location in the USA.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE HIGH TECH
PRODUCTS JUST CLICK
Street Atlas USA 4.0
Tripmate
Phone Search USA
3D Explorer
CLICK HERE TO SEE TRIPMATE ANIMATION IN ACTION
CLICK HERE TO SEE STREET ATLAS GRAPHICS SAMPLES
CLICK HERE TO SEE PHONE SEARCH USA GRAPHICS SAMPLES
CLICK HERE TO SEE 3D EXPLORER GRAPHICS SAMPLES
Use As Surveillance Vehicle Tracing
Equipment
Track a vehicle or any other item in which a sender/reciever can be placed
Automatic Vehicle Tracking (AVL) is making it's premier in the private sector. The idea of AVL combined computer technology with satellite tracking technology developed by the U.S. Military commonly known as GPS (Global Positioning Satellite). This type of surveillance system calls for the following four elements:
Investigative Benefits
The benefits of this new technology in surveillance is profound. By using
this technology, an actual physical surveillance by a human is not needed
in many instances. When the goal of a surveillance is to determine physical
location only, this technology can be employed. The transmitter is simply
covertly placed on the target vehicle. A computer program is used to collect
location data at predetermined intervals. After a few days, the investigator
simply has the computer print out the location data of the target vehicle.
Of course, this technology will not make human activity in physical surveillance
obsolete for obvious reasons any more than online searching made background
investigation obsolete.
Aside from remote monitoring of target location, this technology can also
be used as a more conventional bumper beeper system. Anyone who has used
a conventional vehicle tracking surveillance system understands that the
range is limited. The advantage to this technology of course is that your
range widens globally.
Disadvantages
There are some limitations and disadvantages to this technology. Transmissions
can sometimes be blocked by obstacles from the target vehicle to the satellite
and from the satellite back to the receiver. Mountainous areas and areas
with tall buildings can sometimes cause problems.
Some of the police departments already using this technology are:
The Schaumburg, Illinois, Police Department
Michigan State Police
California Highway Patrol
Up until a year or so ago, this type of technology has been out of reach
to the average private investigative agency because of the costs involved.
However, things are changing. PinPoint Tacking has developed the first state
of the art global tracking surveillance system for private industry use
with moderate pricing.
We are happy to announce one of the first functional high technology global tracking system using GPS technology for surveillance tracking.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT GPS TRACKING
YOU'LL BE INTERESTED IN THESE WEB SITES
GPS AND SATELLITE TRACKING LINKS
GPS TECHNOLOGY:
Beyond Push-Button GPS
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/%7Eleick/pub6.htm
GPS TECHNOLOGY
SITE
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~leick/gpshome.htm
INTRODUCTION
TO GPS APPLICATIONS
http://galaxy.einet.net/editors/john-beadles/introgps.htm
GLOBAL
POSITIONING SYSTEM OVERVIEW
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html
THE
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/geek.page.html
RELATED LINKS
Map Resources
http://www.cnde.iastata.edu.maps.html
Weather and other maps and map related data
The Great Globe
Gallery
http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~zbzw/glob/glob1.htm
Many examples of different globe representations in many different formats
(at least 91 views). Real time count down clock to the year 2000!
Institute of Navigation
http://www.ion.org
This is the site of a profesional society involved in the art and sicence
of navigation.
Real-Time
http://www.seds.org/galaxy/links-realtime.html
Here you can get Real-Time Weather of all kinds
U.S. Latitude/Longitude
Server
gopher://gopher.bucknell.edu:4320/7geo%20search?
Enter location in the U.S. and receive the Lat/lon for that location. Slow
but works.
The Earth
Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
View a map of the Earth observing day and night regions from such vantage
points as the sun, moon or Earth itself.
Map Quest
http://www.mapquest.com
This is a Interactive mapping program which will allow display of points
of interests as well al your requested location on a map.
Etak Guide
http://www.etakguide.com
Another Interactive map program. You can search for locations by entering
street addresses. Works well.
CHECK OUT THESE RELATED PRODUCTS
Street Atlas USA 4.0
Tripmate
Phone Search USA
3D Explorer
Satellite Surveillance Tracking System