Remote Clock Calibration Via GPS

摘要

During the summer of 1986, the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) equipped an automotive van as a Mobile Electronic Laboratory for a dual purpose experiment. As a second part of this experiment, the GPS receiver would be used in the same manner as a portable cesium clock at selected field installations to examine the operational feasibility of such an application of GPS receivers. At various sites the GPS receiver and one portable cesium clock were used to obtain measurements against each on-site clock. There were, thus, two independent methods used to determine the difference USNO Master Clock (USNO MC) minus Site Clock. This paper will address this second part of the dual experiment only.