POSITIONING ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION COLLECTION APPARATUS, POSITIONING ENVIRONMENT GPS INFORMATION CREATION METHOD, POSITIONING ENVIRONMENT GPS INFORMATION CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE

• Main Authors: HATSUMOTO SHINTARO, IKEDA YOJI, FUJII KENJIRO, WATANABE MASAHIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.11.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SURVEYING; TESTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning environment information collection apparatus, a positioning environment GPS information creation method, a positioning environment GPS information creation and distribution system, and a computer software which do not need manpower and time and hardly generate errors. SOLUTION: The positioning environment information collection apparatus 1 for collecting information of a sky obstacle location at a positioning point and a positioning time is provided with a GPS unit 13 for receiving a satellite positioning signal such as a GPS signal, etc., implementing a location calculation and calculating a positioning location data, a sky shooting unit 12 for shooting the sky and creating a sky image data, a unit for creating a shooting time data for indicating a time when the sky is shot, and a record unit 14 for recording the positioning location data, the sky image data and the shooting time data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO