Consumer-Grade Global Positioning System (GPS) Accuracy and Reliability

By Michael G. Wing, Aaron Eklund, L. Kellogg. 2005

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Positional Accuracy of Assisted GPS Data from High-Sensitivity GPS-enabled Mobile Phones (2011, background): “For example, Wing et al. (2005) tested six diﬀerent consumer grade units and performance was found to vary considerably among units and was strongly inﬂuenced by canopy cover.”
Recent progress in road and lane detection: a survey (2014, background): “Current commercial GPS receivers typically achieve accuracy of 5− 10 meters [41], which can be improved to 1 meter using accurate IMU integration [24,22].”
An error budget for different sources of error in digital soil mapping (2011, background): “Wing et al. (2005) showed that the positional error from consumer-grade GPS devices is between 5 and 10-m depending on the device and conditions of use.”
Grizzly bear and human interaction in Yellowstone National Park: An evaluation of bear management areas (2013, methodology): “We assigned a buffer to all GPS locations within the remaining on-trail and off-trail hiking segments; buffers were equal to the mean distance a backcountry user traveled per minute, plus 1 standard deviation, plus 10 m to incorporate GPS error (Wing et al. 2005).”