GPS and its Civil Application in Japan

GPS and its Civil Application in Japan

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this paper is to construct a framework for understanding the commercial implications of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and its applications in Japan. Most literature, while touching upon GPS, tends to concentrate on the technicality of how GPS works, seems to be overlook the user’s segment and commercial market where the bulk of revenues are generated. I choose Japan as a case study because Japan is a place where the civilian (commercial) applications of GPS are at high speed of development. Therefore, in this paper, I will first give a brief overview of GPS and its use in the world. Then I will discuss about to what extent and in what aspects GPS has been applied for civilian use in Japan.
GPS AND ITS BRIEF HISTORY
The Global Positioning System—GPS, is installed 24 Navstar satellites in six orbital planes. Each plane is settled four satellites that rotated with circular 20,200-kilometer...