SatRef - Hong Kong Satellite Positioning Reference Station Network
CHAN Kin-kwok
Geodetic Survey Section
Survey & Mapping Office
Lands Department
the Government of the Hong Kong SAR
lsgk@landsd.gov.hk
GPS helps you in your daily life!
In our daily life, no matter you are hiking in the countryside, driving on the street or riding a boat, you may wish to know where you are and where you go. With the handheld GPS receivers and the GPS correction data from SatRef, your real time position in sub-meter accuracy can be easily found out in tens of seconds.
Real-time GPS correction data such as DGPS data and RTK data from SatRef can be used for a wide range of applications in hiking, logistics, fleet management, mobile GIS, childcare, lost car finding, position tracking, livestock tracking, vehicle tracking, search and rescue operations, and other general positioning related applications.
For tracking and navigation, users may use the low cost handheld GPS receivers orhandheld devices, such as PDA, tablet PC, mobile phone embedded with GPS chipset to obtain their real time position from sub-meter accuracy or even down to centimeter level accuracy with the GPS correction data from SatRef. The accurate position can be displayed on a map base of the device for a variety of applications as far as you think appropriate without limitation.

On the other hand, with land surveying grade GPS receiver and correction data such as Network-RTK data from SatRef, real-time precise positioning in centimeter level accuracy is easily achievable. Surveyors, engineers, architects and scientists can use these precise positioning techniques in geodetic surveying, mapping, structure monitoring, scientific research of atmospheric activity and other high precision positioning applications.