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The US government does provide an SBAS called the WAAS, operated by the FAA. It's also had a hand in designing and operating a number of other augmentation syst
by AlotOfReading 4y ago
The US government does provide an SBAS called the WAAS, operated by the FAA. It's also had a hand in designing and operating a number of other augmentation systems [1], including CORS, GDGPS, and NDGPS. As an aside, don't you just love how many government acronyms there are?
[1] https://www.gps.gov/systems/augmentations https://www.gps.gov/systems/augmentations
- tesseract 4y agoWAAS doesn't cover Australia.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoWasn't saying it did. MSAS (Japan) can be used in AU if you accept the performance degradation, but the lack of a public SBAS for the southern hemisphere is a big reason why SouthPAN is being brought online.
- ericpauley 4y agoFAA sure loves their TLAs. Some acronyms (or initialisms, for the pedants), like VOR, are TLAs inside TLAs!