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[GPS overview](https://www.gps.gov/gps)", "The referent includes the satellite broadcast infrastructure and ground-control functions; a handset, antenna or dashboard navigator is equipment that uses it.", "Basic GPS reception obtains one-way satellite broadcasts; a device transmitting its position to a tracking server is using an additional communications service. [GPS overview](https://www.gps.gov/gps)", "A result described as GPS must identify whether GPS observations actually contributed; a device location label alone does not establish the positioning source.", "Corrections or integrity information supplied by an augmentation service must be attributed separately from the underlying GPS service." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Service and signal profile", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named GPS service; signal and navigation-message types; applicable specification revision", "why_it_matters": "Determines which receiver capabilities, access conditions and performance statements apply." }, { "name": "Assessment context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Location or service region, observation interval and intended positioning or timing task", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a local reception problem or historical report from becoming an unqualified claim about the entire system." }, { "name": "Satellite participation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Satellite identities linked separately to operational status, visibility, tracking and use in a solution", "why_it_matters": "An operational satellite is not necessarily visible, tracked or suitable for a particular user's solution." }, { "name": "Broadcast health assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported healthy, reported unhealthy, conflicting evidence or unknown; per satellite and signal with timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Supports excluding unsuitable signals without treating a health indication as proof of local reception quality." }, { "name": "Navigation-data freshness", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds since relevant reference epoch or update, with message type and applicable validity rule", "why_it_matters": "Supports judging whether orbit, clock and related data remain suitable for the intended computation." }, { "name": "Positioning error evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Metres; horizontal or vertical; measured or estimated; confidence level, interval and reference truth", "why_it_matters": "Makes accuracy claims comparable and distinguishes estimated uncertainty from independently measured error." }, { "name": "Timing error evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Seconds or nanoseconds relative to a named time reference, with uncertainty and calibration conditions", "why_it_matters": "A usable position does not establish that a timing output meets the task's requirements." }, { "name": "Observation geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dimensionless dilution-of-precision measure with type, epoch and contributing satellite set", "why_it_matters": "Records how satellite geometry affects the interpretation of ranging observations." }, { "name": "Service availability evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Percentage or duration meeting a declared criterion over a stated region and interval", "why_it_matters": "Availability is meaningful only when the qualifying service condition and denominator are explicit." }, { "name": "Reference frame and time basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named coordinate frame and realization, coordinate epoch, time scale and applied conversions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents apparently valid coordinates or timestamps from being combined under incompatible references." }, { "name": "External assistance dependence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked augmentation, correction, assistance or other-constellation service; contribution and freshness", "why_it_matters": "Separates GPS service capability from performance achieved through additional systems." }, { "name": "Fitness for intended reliance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, acceptable, corroboration required or unacceptable, with task thresholds and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed service condition to a specific decision without declaring GPS universally safe or unsafe." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify whether an observed positioning or timing service is GPS and record other contributing systems.", "Match a receiver's declared capabilities to the GPS signals and service needed for a task.", "Assess GPS availability and performance evidence for a particular location, interval and requirement.", "Recommend exclusion of suspect observations or suspension of GPS reliance when evidence fails the task's acceptance conditions.", "Select an independently supported fallback or corroboration method through linked neighbouring models.", "Reassess reliance after an outage, interference report or signal-health change using explicit recovery evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gps-identity-and-service-boundary", "name": "GPS identity and service boundary", "description": "Establish which system and GPS service the entry denotes and where receiver and augmentation responsibilities begin.", "rationale": "GPS is frequently used as a label for receivers, location applications and satellite navigation generally; 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[GPS overview](https://www.gps.gov/gps)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record denote the GPS system itself, a GPS service, or equipment colloquially called a GPS?", "kind": "definition", "id": "gps-referent-q01" }, { "text": "Which authoritative description anchors the identity and infrastructure boundary?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gps-referent-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-and-augmentation-boundaries", "name": "Service and augmentation boundaries", "description": "Separate the GPS service under assessment from externally supplied improvements.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-attribution", "name": "Service attribution", "description": "Record the applicable GPS service and attribute assistance, corrections and mixed-constellation contributions separately.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which GPS service and access conditions apply to the intended user?", "kind": "definition", "id": "service-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which claimed capabilities depend on augmentation, external corrections or another constellation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "service-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "constellation-and-control-condition", "name": "Constellation and control condition", "description": "Represent the space and ground-control conditions that support usable GPS broadcasts.", "rationale": "A constellation count alone cannot establish whether suitable signals and maintained navigation data are available.", "layers": [ { "id": "satellite-service-contribution", "name": "Satellite service contribution", "description": "Distinguish operational constellation membership from local usability.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-satellite-set", "name": "Usable satellite set", "description": "Record satellite and signal identities, dated status evidence and their contribution to the assessed service.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which satellites and signals are reported operational at the assessment epoch, and by which source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "usable-satellite-set-q01" }, { "text": "Which are visible, tracked and actually used at the assessed location, and what geometry results?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-satellite-set-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "navigation-data-maintenance", "name": "Navigation data maintenance", "description": "Assess the evidence that broadcast orbit, clock and health information remains usable.", "findings": [ { "id": "broadcast-data-condition", "name": "Broadcast data condition", "description": "Record relevant data epochs, validity conditions and notices affecting confidence in maintained broadcasts.", "questions": [ { "text": "How old are the applicable orbit and clock data, and do they meet the governing validity conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "broadcast-data-condition-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated operational notices identify maintenance, outages or control-related limitations affecting these signals?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "broadcast-data-condition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ranging-and-reference-interpretation", "name": "Ranging and reference interpretation", "description": "Capture the signal, navigation-message and reference conventions needed to interpret GPS observations.", "rationale": "Receiving a signal does not establish that an agent can interpret its observations or combine its coordinates and timestamps correctly.", "layers": [ { "id": "signal-and-message-compatibility", "name": "Signal and message compatibility", "description": "Relate available GPS broadcasts to the user's receiving and decoding capabilities.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-compatibility", "name": "Observation compatibility", "description": "Record the applicable broadcast interface and evidence of receiver compatibility. [GPS interface specifications](https://www.gps.gov/interface-control-documents-icds-interface-specifications-iss)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which GPS signals and navigation-message formats are required and supported for this use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observation-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which interface specification revision and receiver capability evidence support that compatibility judgment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observation-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coordinate-and-time-references", "name": "Coordinate and time references", "description": "Make position and time outputs interpretable across connected systems.", "findings": [ { "id": "reference-consistency", "name": "Reference consistency", "description": "Record the coordinate frame, height convention, epoch, time scale and transformations relevant to the requested output.", "questions": [ { "text": "What coordinate frame, height convention and time scale does the output actually use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "reference-consistency-q01" }, { "text": "Which transformations, time offsets or height conversions must be verified before combining this output with the target system?", "kind": "action", "id": "reference-consistency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-performance-and-local-reception", "name": "Service performance and local reception", "description": "Distinguish system service commitments from performance experienced under particular receiving conditions.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid treating a service specification as a guarantee of every receiver's local accuracy or availability.", "layers": [ { "id": "performance-evidence", "name": "Performance evidence", "description": "Assess positioning and timing results against explicit service and task criteria.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-performance-assessment", "name": "Qualified performance assessment", "description": "Record applicable performance criteria, measurement conditions and observed compliance; GPS publishes service-specific performance standards. [GPS performance standards](https://www.gps.gov/performance-standards-specifications)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which accuracy, availability, continuity and timing criteria apply, over what interval and under which assumptions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-performance-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What measured evidence or uncertainty estimates show whether the local output meets the task's thresholds?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "qualified-performance-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-reception-limitations", "name": "Local reception limitations", "description": "Record environmental and equipment conditions that may explain a local loss of performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "reception-cause-separation", "name": "Reception cause separation", "description": "Keep observations of obstruction, reflected signals, propagation conditions and receiver limitations distinct from confirmed constellation faults.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence characterises obstruction, multipath, propagation disturbance or receiver limitations at this location?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reception-cause-separation-q01" }, { "text": "What observations distinguish a local reception problem from a satellite, signal or broader service problem?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reception-cause-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "trust-and-reliance-decisions", "name": "Trust and reliance decisions", "description": "Translate signal and solution evidence into bounded decisions about using GPS.", "rationale": "A plausible position or timestamp may still be unsuitable; the model must support corroboration, exclusion and recovery decisions.", "layers": [ { "id": "anomaly-and-integrity-evidence", "name": "Anomaly and integrity evidence", "description": "Assess inconsistent or suspect GPS observations without asserting an unsupported cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "trustworthiness-assessment", "name": "Trustworthiness assessment", "description": "Record health indications, receiver alerts, independent comparisons and evidence for suspected interference or deceptive signals.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which health indications, integrity alerts or independent position and time comparisons support or challenge the output?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "trustworthiness-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a diagnosis of interference or spoofing rather than ordinary reception error, and what remains uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "trustworthiness-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-suspension-and-recovery", "name": "Use, suspension and recovery", "description": "Define task-specific reliance decisions and the evidence required to change them.", "findings": [ { "id": "reliance-transition-rules", "name": "Reliance transition rules", "description": "Record acceptance thresholds, permitted interventions, fallback dependencies and conditions for restoring GPS reliance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what evidence thresholds should the agent accept the output, seek corroboration, exclude observations or suspend reliance?", "kind": "action", "id": "reliance-transition-rules-q01" }, { "text": "What independent fallback is available, who may change operational use, and what evidence permits recovery?", "kind": "action", "id": "reliance-transition-rules-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does an existing Vercy world-model publication already own this GPS concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which authoritative GPS service and interface revisions should anchor the researched publication, and which signal capabilities are operational at its reference date?", "Which sources provide sufficiently current satellite, signal and outage status, and how should conflicts or stale reports be represented?", "Which positioning and timing use cases require explicit integrity, continuity or recovery thresholds beyond the underlying GPS service specification?", "How much authenticated evidence about restricted services is available to the intended agents, and which capabilities must therefore remain unassessed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "unclassified", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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"kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Global Positioning System from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Global Positioning System is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, 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"What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Global Positioning System is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Global Positioning System is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Global Positioning System is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Global Positioning System is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Global Positioning System passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Global Positioning System between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Global Positioning System, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Global Positioning System is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a Global Positioning System and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a Global Positioning System is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a Global Positioning System performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a Global Positioning System.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Global Positioning System at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Global Positioning System came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Global Positioning System 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"findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Global Positioning System is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Global Positioning System, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Global Positioning System, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Global Positioning System is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 13, "findings": 15, "questions": 45 } } } }