Anyone use GPS Tracking? - Page 2

Uh, the OP did not post about an implantable device. All the GPS units I know of are ACTIVE units requiring a power supply.  To have a passive RFID GPS you need a powered source that can scan and talk with it. All of the acitve models are having to send out a radio signal in order to communicate with a cell phone or a handheld unit etc.) 

We use the Astro collars on our offlead SAR dogs mainly to have documentation of coverage of the search area -- data is downloaded to mapping software. For that kind of use a cell phone based unit for lost dogs would be cost prohibitive. There the range is limited to radio range communication with a handheld vs communication to a cell phone tower.

Same here Nancy,
I use a Garmin GPS tracking collar on my dog when training in the woods for SAR.
It serves many purposes...one to locate my dog....two to keep track where he's searched....and three to pin point areas he showed more interest in. All of which can be down loaded for study.
We also use them on our cadaver dogs to verify that the dogs have located scent source during training.

Honestly, I don't see what all the hubbub is all about and think GPS is a great idea whether implanted or on a collar.

Cheri

Wonder if one would have helped Pat find Aldo ?

I don't much like the idea of implanted tracking devices
for humans - but can see where they might lead to
abducted kids being found before its too late, for instance.
And I reckon Keith is absolutely right, unfortunately, it is
kinda too late already.

"I wish the MICROCHIP had GPS tracking........" ( microchip is an implantable device ) Uh, I think she did mention it, even if just wishful thinking, Nancy. It's no secret that there are collars with GPS, they've been using them on wild animals from the get go, so putting them on SAR dogs and hunting dogs was only the next logical step in their application.

Joanro... I could be wrong but I don't believe they have GPS collars for tracking wild game. Only collars I've ever seen put on wild game are telemetry collars. Telemetry have a very long battery life. The ones we used for hounds had a 16000hr battery life. GPS collars are no where in that category yet. They only last a cple days and need re-charged.

Eisen, correct, telemetry collars on "wild game", but I was talking about following animals for research. Whales, for example, and I know, they don't use a collar on a whale. However, I may have misspoken, as gps may have been implemented as early as 2005 on SAR dogs, the use on whales was roughly the same era, so chicken and egg.

Oh don't worry you are allready being tracked. When it is time they will inprison us in our own homes take our gun's and kill our dogs.

Wiki comes to the rescue and it is largely as I thought.
Even the smallest ones have to have a power supply for communication.
Things are getting smaller and smaller and smaller so the concern ........ sure..........nothing we do is private anymore. Every word we type, every email, every phone conversation.
I think it is a bigger concern than GPS tracking devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_wildlife_tracking

Nancy, you're right. But I can still go to the woods and be anonymous :)

not if you take your phone or new smart license lol