Q9. Consider the following statements about NAVIC Scheme:
1. NAVIC will provide two levels of service, the ‘standard positioning service’ will be open for civilian use, and a ‘restricted service’ (an encrypted one) for authorized users (including military).
2. The system is intended to provide an absolute position accuracy of better than 20 meters throughout Indian landmass and better than 40 meters in the Indian Ocean.
Which of the above statements are correct?
a) 1 only
NAVIC will provide two levels of service, the ‘standard positioning service’ will be open for civilian use, and a ‘restricted service’ (an encrypted one) for authorized users (including military).
The system is intended to provide an absolute position accuracy of better than 10 meters throughout Indian landmass and better than 20 meters in the Indian Ocean as well as a region extending approximately 1,500 km (930 mi) around India.