GPS Total Station Overview

It is the place to talk about any kind of GPS Total Station System around

What is GPS?
As each signal travels at the speed of light, the longer it takes the receiver to get the signal, the farther away the satellite is. By knowing how far away a satellite is, the receiver knows that it is located somewhere on the surface of an imaginary sphere centered at the satellite.

GPS can be used for cartography, forestry, mineral exploration, wildlife habitation management, monitoring the movement of people and things and bringing precise timing to the world.

The assumption is that the GPS Total station will be close enough to have the same sort of errors that the beacon station saw and they can be applied without modification to any SV's that they share a view of.

In all cases a custom receiver (or software) is used to assemble the data in a form that is acceptable to the GPS receiver
Instead of a beacon receiver the correction data is sent via a geo-stationary satellite and is decoded by one of the regular channels already present in the GPS receiver.