Patent ID: 6903681

Claim:
A global synchronization unit (GSU) for time and space (TS) stamping of input data elements, said GSU comprising: a GPS Receiver and an associated antenna for receiving GPS signals from signal sources associated with a GPS system symbolically embedded within a global reference system, and processing said received GPS signals so as to automatically produce time and space (TS) stamp data element representative of the time and space coordinates of said GSU with respect to said global reference system at each data sampling instant occurring within said GSU, wherein said time stamp data is an absolute time reference; and a central processor, operably connected to said GPS Receiver; and a data input port, operably connected to a data input device and said central processor, for receiving an input data element from said data input device, at each said data sampling instant; wherein said central processor (i) connects the input data element received at said data input port at each said data sampling instant, with the TS-stamp data element generated at said sampling instant so as to produce a TS stamped input data element, and (ii) stores each said TS-stamped input data element in memory.