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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:07:11 -0400
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From:         "David M. Mark" <GEODMM@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject:      GPS bibliography available by ftp or email

Myke Gluck (MGLUCK@SUVM.BITNET) sent me this notice for possible
posting to GIS-L; it is about 200 lines long:
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:19:17 ADT
Reply-To:     Richard Langley <LANG@UNB.CA>
From:         Richard Langley <LANG@UNB.CA>
Subject:      GPS Bibliography Available via FTP
X-To:         CANSPACE@unb.ca
To:           Myke Gluck <MGLUCK@SUVM.BITNET>

A new file has been added to the CANSPACE file archives: GPS.BIBLIO.  It
is an electronic version of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dredging
Research Program Technical Report DPR-92-2, a GPS bibliography prepared
in 1989 at UNB.  It contains over 1,000 items on all facets of GPS
positioning.  The file may be retrieved from unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca
(131.202.1.2) using anonymous FTP.  An updated index of the CANSPACE
archive files and means to access them is appended below.

INDEX OF FILES UNDER PUB.CANSPACE
---------------------------------

$INDEX                      This file.

$README                     Introduction to CANSPACE, the Canadian Space
                            Geodesy Forum, a LISTSERV-based news and
                            discussion mailing list.

ARCHIVES                    Information on accessing the CANSPACE archives.

CDNGEOPH.BULTIN88           Text of the geodesy chapter of the 1988 edition of
                            the Canadian Geophysical Bulletin.

CDNGEOPH.BULTIN89           Text of the geodesy chapter of the 1989 edition of
                            the Canadian Geophysical Bulletin.

DAILY.SOLARGEO.DATABCST.FORMAT
                            Description of the format used for the daily solar
                            geophysical data broadcasts from Cary Oler's Solar
                            Terrestrial Dispatch data service.

FTP.BITNET.EMAIL.ACCESS     This document describes how to retrieve files from
                            anonymous ftp sites (such as unbmvs1.csd.unb.ca) via
                            the Princeton BITNET ftp server.  You must be on a
                            BITNET node to use this service.  If you are not on
                            a BITNET node, see FTP.GENERAL.EMAIL.ACCESS.

FTP.GENERAL.EMAIL.ACCESS    This document describes how to retrieve files from
                            anonymous ftp sites via e-mail using the ftpmail
                            facility at decwrl.dec.com.  To retrieve files using
                            this facility, compose an e-mail message using the
                            commands listed in this document and send the
                            message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.

GEODESY.IN.CANADA           Text of the quadrennial Canadian National Report on
                            Geodesy for the International Union of Geodesy and
                            Geophysics as presented at the XX General Assembly
                            of the IUGG, Vienna, 11 - 24 August 1991.

GPS.BIBLIO                  Electronic version of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
                            Dredging Research Program Technical Report DPR-92-2,
                            a GPS bibliography prepared in 1989 at UNB.  It
                            contains over 1,000 items.

GPS.CONSTEL.STATUS.Dyymmdd  The latest Navstar GPS Constellation Status summary.

GPS.ELEMENTS.NASA.#nnn      Current GPS constellation orbit element sets in
                            NASA Prediction Bulletin 2-line format.

GPS.ELEMENTS.NASA.#nnn.MACSAT
                            Current GPS constellation orbit element sets con-
                            verted from NASA Prediction Bulletin 2-line format
                            to MacSat tracking program format.

GPS.GUIDE.INFO              Information on Canadian GPS Associates' Guide to
                            GPS Positioning.

GPS.INFO.SOURCES            A brief directory of sources of information on the
                            Global Positioning System.

GPS.MANUFACT                A list of GPS equipment manufacturers.

GPS.SYSTEM.DESCRIPT.USNO    A description of GPS with emphasis on its use for
                            accurate time transfer.  This file was obtained from
                            the USNO ADS where it exists as file GPSSY.

GPS.WORLD.INDEX.PS.Z        A detailed index to GPS World magazine in PostScript
                            print file format.  The file has been compressed
                            using the standard Unix format.

GPS.WORLD.INDEX.TEXT.Z      Plain text version of the above file.

GPS.WORLD.INFO              Information on GPS World magazine.

GPSIC                       Description of the services provided by the U.S.
                            Coast Guard's Information Center.  This file was
                            prepared by the U.S. Naval Observatory.

IONOSPHR.DATA.INFO          Information on the availability of daily ionospheric
                            summaries (MUFs, FOF2, TEC) generated by Cary Oler.

LOG9011                     CANSPACE archive for November 1990 (missing from
                            LISTSERV archives).

LOG9012                     CANSPACE archive for December 1990 (missing from
                            LISTSERV archives).

MACSAT.USERS.GUIDE.HQX      BinHexed file containing the user's guide for the
                            Macintosh-based MacSat satellite tracking program.

SESC                        Information on accessing the NOAA Space Environment
                            Services Center data, information, and software
                            files over computer networks.

TEC.M9108.Z                 A summary of hourly total electron content data as
                            reported by seven western hemisphere and four
                            eastern hemisphere stations for part of the month
                            of August 1991. Report prepared by Cary Oler of
                            the Solar Terrestrial Dispatch from data supplied
                            by the Space Environment Laboratories, NOAA. This
                            is a binary file in compressed Unix format.

TEC.Myymm.ZIP               As above for month mm, 19yy. Compressed ZIP format.

UNB.GPS.BIBLIO              A bibliography of UNB's publications relating to
                            the Global Positioning System.

WHEN.HQX                    A BinHexed Macintosh HyperCard stack for converting
                            a UTC or GPS time epoch to the GPS Week, seconds of
                            week, and day of the year. It also computes the
                            Julian Date and Modified Julian Date of the
                            corresponding UTC epoch. Requires HyperCard 2.0
                            or later.

Message Archives
----------------
All messages posted to the LISTSERV-based CANSPACE mailing list are archived in
monthly notebooks.

Archived postings can be recovered using the LISTSERV DATABASE function.
Here is an example of how to use this function.  To list the sequenced index
(item) numbers of the postings in the archives which contain, for example, the
word "launch" and to list the contents of these particular postings, the body of
a message sent to LISTSERV@UNB.CA should look like this:

   //  JOB  ECHO=NO
   DATABASE SEARCH DD=RULES
   //RULES DD  *
   SELECT LAUNCH in CANSPACE
   INDEX
   PRINT
   /*

The result of the archive search will be sent back to you as an e-mail
message.  You can substitute any other word or phrase for the word "launch".
If you just want the item numbers, dates, and subject headers of the postings
containing the particular word or phrase, leave out the PRINT command.  You
can print selected items by specifying the item number(s) with the PRINT
command; e.g.,

   PRINT 62, 74

To find out more about the LISTSERV DATABASE function, send the one-line
message

   INFO DATABASE

to LISTSERV@UNB.CA or any machine on BITnet/EARN/NetNorth which supports
LISTSERV.  You'll get the DATABASE manual back as an e-mail message.


File Archives
-------------
CANSPACE also supports an archive of information files related to space geodesy.
Such files include basic descriptions of GPS, lists of GPS information sources,
GPS satellite Keplerian elements, etc.  These files may be retrieved using
anonymous ftp -- either directly or via an e-mail <-> ftp server.

CANSPACE-related files are on UNBMVS1.CSD.UNB.CA (131.202.1.2) in the
"sub-directory" PUB.CANSPACE.  Note that after you connect to UNBMVS1 you must
give a CHANGE DIRECTORY command before you can list file names -- there is no
initial default directory.  To learn more about the vagaries of the MVS FTP
facility at UNB, read the file PUB.$README.

Additional files for inclusion in the CANSPACE FTP file archives are welcome.


25 May 1991; Revised 26 September 1991; Revised 16 December 1991;
Revised 6 March 1992; Revised 4 July 1992

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 Richard B. Langley                        Internet: LANG@UNB.CA or SE@UNB.CA
 Geodetic Research Laboratory              BITnet:   LANG@UNB or SE@UNB
 Dept. of Surveying Engineering            Phone:    (506) 453-5142
 University of New Brunswick               FAX:      (506) 453-4943
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